This has been a really tough stretch for folks in
Hampton,
NH and today brought the ocean in again.
WBZ S Paul Burton was there as water weary coastal
residents battled Mother Nature.
Streets turned to rivers in Hampton,
NH Along Hampton Beach. The storm leaving behind a stream
of damage.
A partly flooded homes and cars.
I've been here since 2003.
I've survived a fire. This is blowing my mind.
Rose, completely impassable. Were blocked off as first responders help
residents evacuate.
Enlarged police trucks. It's nerve racking because you're not sure
if.
It's going to get into the house.
I've never seen anything like it to be quite honest,
and I've looked here for 35 years.
Susan McGee lives on Nut Ave.
She decided to wait this storm out,
but now she finds herself stuck in her third floor
apartment,
her three story home completely surrounded by water.
I think it is amazing.
Seriously, this is, like amazing.
I got oceanfront property, though many of these are summer
homes,
so they are completely empty.
There are plenty of families who live here year round,
like Gay Bailey, who we found walking in the floodwaters
waist deep in waders.
He lives on Bittersweet and Brown Ave.
He too decided not to evacuate and a few of
his neighbors homes are flooded.
Oh, they're underwater. Yeah, there's water.
I just talked to a neighbor down there.
They got water inside their whole house.
So yeah, they've lost everything.
But like a good neighbor,
he's doing his part, collecting trash cans and whatever he
can find.
I got some stuff to rescue.
I take the people's, the neighbors trash barrels and recycling
barrels and there's a piece of fence floating down.
I try to return it to their properties.
The good news is that the strong winds and waves
have ceased,
but you can see the damage this storm has left
behind.
Cars are partly submerged and people's belongings are flowing downstream.
Never had that before. Wow.
So it's nerve wracking. In Hampton,
NH, I'm Paul Burton, WBZ News.