back here in dan burry, water is receding. bring in senior meteorologist janice dean wheemplet looking at the numbers, kind of a stalts guy. new state record possibly because of this nontropical righted event yesterday. >> that's incredible. always say it doesn't take a tropical storm, a named storm to cause incredible damage. this was a cold front. a lot of tropical moisture and you dumped rain in matter hours. brookfield, connecticut. the latest gauge at 17 feet, crested at 17.24. the record was 19 feet. and that was over a decade ago. so this was not a tropical storm. this was a cold front, and the rain just continued to pound the same regions of connecticut. this is monroe, close 10 inches, middlebury close to 10 inches. this came within the noon hour to the 6:00 p.m. hour. look at 12:00 p.m. 1.74. we were close to 10 inches of rain. a lot of rain in a very short period of time that people in some cases were not prepared for live radar a chance for more heavy rain today. flash flood alert from d.c. all the way up towards b

steve morgan joins us from the town of dan burry.d morning. >> steve, ainsley good morning to you. we have dealt with flash flooding overnight. state history. highest alert of a flood warning has only been issued two times. one of those two times was yesterday. here in dan bury bad this morning. roads remain closed. want to show you video. happened not just here but elsewhere in south bury we saw significant rains there. in fact, that led to water rescuing in south bury. 800 customers without power and at least 15 roads closed. whether that be because they are totally worked a out went on to say partially closed there. other video in new town connecticut saw around 8 inches of rain this was two ours that we saw. look at the numbers in a given year there is a .01% chance this could happen in connecticut given the amount of rain we saw in 22 hours. 6 to 10 inches was the was the range. back here in dan burry, in fact, this is new town road. this would take you to new town. this is flooded, too. fortunately we are beginning to see the w