AP Photo/The Gazette, Julie KoehShane Ward, of Manchester, left, rolls up carpet in the living room of Jerry and Cheryl Gotto as other friends and family help with clean up at their home in Linden Acres on Lake Delhi on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The permanent home, which they've lived in since 1993, retained about four and a half feet of water before the water went down. Cheryl Gotto said her husband woke up at midnight Saturday and the two noticed the water was high in the front. She went to the back door and found "a pond" in the backyard.

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