Heavy rains that fell on a record December snowfall Tuesday swamped streets and roads and swelled a creek that flooded a Beach Road home.
“(Water) was coming in the side door and going out the front door” at the home of Dick and Carol Flegel, said Haines fire chief Scott Bradford.
In a wind-driven, slushy downpour Tuesday afternoon, state road crew foreman Matt Boron used a metal detector to locate a drain buried below inches…

