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New Yorkers clean up, regroup after Irene’s wallop

By Associated Press
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A security guard hangs on the door of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's SUV in the middle of a flooded street Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Gov. Cuomo was riding in the SUV, and posted some photos of the heavy flooding on his flickr site. Torrential rai

A security guard hangs on the door of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s SUV in the middle of a flooded street Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Gov. Cuomo was riding in the SUV, and posted some photos of the heavy flooding on his flickr site. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused widespread power outages, closed 137 miles of the state’s main highway and swelled creeks and rivers to previously unseen levels.

Dick Sanford, Associated Press
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Bonnie Chapman, of Highland, watches as floodwaters from Hurricane Irene stream down Vineyard Avenue in Highland, N.Y. on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused wides

Bonnie Chapman, of Highland, watches as floodwaters from Hurricane Irene stream down Vineyard Avenue in Highland, N.Y. on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused widespread power outages, closed 137 miles of the state’s main highway and swelled creeks and rivers to previously unseen levels.

Times Herald-Record, Steve Borland, Associated Press
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Streets are flooded Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused widespread power outages, closed 137 miles of the state's main highway and swelled c

Streets are flooded Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused widespread power outages, closed 137 miles of the state’s main highway and swelled creeks and rivers to previously unseen levels.

Dick Sanford, Associated Press
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Margaretville Central School Athletic Director Jeremey Marks stands next to a school bus in floodwaters Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused

Margaretville Central School Athletic Director Jeremey Marks stands next to a school bus in floodwaters Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused widespread power outages, closed 137 miles of the state’s main highway and swelled creeks and rivers to previously unseen levels.

Dick Sanford, Associated Press
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A security guard hangs on the door of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's SUV in the middle of a flooded street Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Gov. Cuomo was riding in the SUV, and posted some photos of the heavy flooding on his flickr site. Torrential rai
Bonnie Chapman, of Highland, watches as floodwaters from Hurricane Irene stream down Vineyard Avenue in Highland, N.Y. on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused wides
Streets are flooded Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused widespread power outages, closed 137 miles of the state's main highway and swelled c
Margaretville Central School Athletic Director Jeremey Marks stands next to a school bus in floodwaters Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Margaretville, N.Y. Torrential rains from Tropical Storm Irene forced hundreds in the Hudson Valley from their homes, caused

ALBANY, N.Y. — Roadways remain closed and thousands of people around New York are still without power the day after Tropical Storm Irene slogged up the East Coast and dumped buckets of rain on the region.

Major roads including two long stretches of the New York State Thruway were still closed. In some Hudson Valley communities, scores of local roads were impassable while in the North Country, the two main routes around Lake Placid were flooded.

Irene poured record rainfalls into already saturated rivers, streams and creeks.

State officials and downstream residents warily eyed major dams holding back drinking water reservoirs. The Pepacton Dam in hard hit Delaware County was spilling early Monday morning and people who live below it were encouraged — but not ordered — to leave for a while.