swollen Ramapo River, residents of more than 100 houses were forced to evacuate due to flooding. "The town is saturated," said Brian Hague, spokesman for Bergen County, New Jersey, Executive Dennis McNerney. "Obviously we all have the Gulf Coast in mind when we think about flooding. Still, we're talking about people's lives being turned upside down." Flood watches remained in effect for Connecticut, Rhode Island, much of northern New Jersey and central and western Massachusetts, where 75 people in a swamped mobile home park lost their homes this week when a river crested. In Montville, Connecticut, mudslides at a construction site were threatening several homes. New Jersey's Ramapo and Passaic rivers crested in several regions, deluging nearby streets and prompting authorities to use sandbags in an attempt to hold the water back. --more 2037 Local Time 1737 GMT