By BOB SALSBERG
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON – Nervous residents along the sodden East Coast watched rivers rise Monday as they braced for a new round of flooding – and the wettest March on record in some areas.
The National Weather Service posted flood warnings and advisories from Maine to the Carolinas as forecasts called for as much as 5 to 7 inches of rain over the next three days. The storm threatened to push already swollen rivers over their banks and add to the misery of homeowners still struggling to bail out flooded basements from other recent storms in the Northeast.
Ted Les, 76, and his wife, Blanche, 69, worried what would happen if rains caused any more damage to their home of 40 years in Clinton, Mass.