RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Some East Coast cities are getting more rain in hours than they usually get in months.
Remnants of a tropical storm are soaking the Eastern Seabord, washing out roads from the Carolinas to Maine and claiming at least five lives.
A family's SUV skidded off a rain-slicked highway into a rain-filled ditch east of Raleigh, North Carolina. Four people were killed, including two children. North Carolina troopers say a fifth person likely drowned when his pickup veered off the road into a raging river.
In Jacksonville, N.C., it rain 12 inches in six hours, nearly a quarter of its typical annual rainfall.
But the rain is good news for Erin Bickford of Walpole, N.H. She says her eight acres of vegetables had been getting almost no rain at all over the summer. She says "it was just dust" until the rain came.
Forecasters say the storm is expected to move further offshore and there'll be cooler, drier air in many parts once the storm passes.
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