Homeowner Maudud Alam walks toward the creek and some of the debris that flowed into his backyard from Sugarland Run when Hurricane Hanna hit last week.

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Debris wrapped itself around one of Maudud Alam's dead evergreen scrubs in his backyard in Sterling during Hurricane Hanna.

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Maudud Alam of Sterling watched an alarming but all-too-familiar site from his home during Hurricane Hanna -- rising water.

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Homeowner Maudud Alam puts his foot on driftwood lodged between his property and his neighbor's, that came from a nearby creek, Sugarland Run, that over flowed up to his backyard door step from Hurricane Hanna.

Photo: Rich Lipski, Washington Post

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