The ferocious northeaster on Saturday dropped record-for-the-date rains in Central Park and Newark, and deluged other parts of New Jersey with up to 8.6 inches; cut power to 341,000 homes in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and flooded coasts, rivers and low-lying homes and highways across the region.

And they flooded highways to the airport, hoping to catch flights to Singapore or Hong Kong.

The project, completed under harsh, desert conditions at breakneak speed, seeks to control a lake whose slowly rising waters have flooded highways, railroads, homes and businesses, causing some fatalities and an estimated $200 million in damage over the last five years.

Heavy seas caused by the storm damaged or destroyed many boats, and rainfall flooded highways across the province.

Rainwater swept down steep mountainsides to the sea and formed sudden rivers that flooded highways and made them impassable to all but heavy vehicles.

The heavy rains flooded several highways, and the resultant flood waters overturned a bus.

A12 NEW YORK/REGION B1-10 Waning Storm Disrupts But Doesn't Devastate Hurricane Floyd arrived as a tropical storm whose high winds and heavy rainfall closed schools and businesses, pounded beaches and flooded highways in the region.

In Yonabaru, the typhoon's storm surge and large swells flooded coastal highways and inundated nearby buildings.

Hurricane Floyd raked a waiting and well-prepared New York region last night, delivering fierce winds and torrents of rain that flooded highways, forced hundreds to evacuate and cut off electricity to hundreds of thousands of people.