1.   A storm from the Atlantic caused coastal flooding Tuesday, leaving some people with flooded basements and others with undrivable cars.

2.   Homeowners in Massachusetts were pumping out flooded basements Tuesday, while people in parts of New Hampshire and Maine were contending with washed out roads and bridges.

3.   In Port Jefferson Station, farther east, Anne Downing was fretting over a flooded basement.

4.   Instead, he is staying at home with his wife and two young children, and tending to a flooded basement.

5.   It is the curse of the NFL that its playoffs are like a box of firecrackers stored in a flooded basement.

6.   On the other, a dozen firefighters from the Westchester County village of Buchanan manned heavy hoses sucking water from the flooded basement of a drugstore.

7.   The Fire Department reported a deluge of calls from homeowners with flooded basements.

8.   The mold thrives in dampness, and Staten Island has a high water table, making flooded basements common, a chronic problem at the library.

9.   The mold, also known as Stachybotrys atra, grows in areas where there has been standing water for a few days, as in a flooded basement.

10.   Upstate New York communities battered by torrential rains struggled on Sunday to return to normal life in the face of closed roads, downed utility lines and flooded basements.