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Street, everything everyone ever had is now on the sidewalk for everyone else to see. walk down the street and the flood stories still pour out. >> the water just gushed in. and it had a force to it. >> they put this rope around me and pulled me through this water. scary. we were so scared. >> the water line was there here in the living room. you can see on on the doors. >> on you that's chest high? >> yeah. i can't swim. >> reporter: two days of rain and water from whites creek did this to a working class neighborhood where most lived for decades. and few have flood insurance. everyone dreade...

Scary. we were so scared. >> the water line was there and here in the living room. you can see -- >> reporter: on you that's chest high? >> yeah, and i can't swim. >> reporter: two days of water did this to a working class neighborhood where most lived for decades. few had flood insurance and everyone dreaded coming back. >> we prayed we would not -- whatever we found, it would be something that we could learn from. >> reporter: soon the first trips to the curb began. . the what have you lost? >> i lost everything. everything is ruined. >> reporter: are you worried? >> yeah, but i'm going to b...

And that is not a cheap prospect. one official estimate it is costing $100 million every day in lost productivity. but the simple problem is, right here in front of the capitol even, even for people who want to get to work, there's just no way. as the blizzard ripped through, dropping at times two inches an hour, even snowplows were pulled off of the streets for safety now and then and the impassable roads made the commute into d.c. all but impossible. i had to strap on cross-country skis just to break out of my neighborhood, where many drifts are running chest-high. well, you can see getting ...

Were pulled off of the streets for safety now and then. and the impassable roads made the commute into d.c. all but impossible. i had to strap on cross-country skis just to break out of my neighborhood, where many drifts are running chest-high. well, you can see how getting out of the neighborhood is going to be tough at best. my skis are being buried in the snow and they are not real trail-breaking skis. so, i'm going to keep slogging down this hill up here and then a bunch of uphills to go, maybe make it to the metro about three miles from here. the snow has closed schools, offices, museums....

>> reporter: that's exactly what we're seeing here. now, where i'm standing right now, this is a street that's flooded a little bit before, not quite this much. but earlier this morning, we were actually in another neighborhood about 15 minutes from here. the people who live there tell us they've been here since the '80s, they've never seen any flooding before. but when they woke up this morning, there was water on the floor and it rapidly started to rise. if you walked down the street in the neighborhood, the water was chest-high. it caught a lot of people you've guard and they needed to be r...