When the sun rose on Thursday morning, Maritimers were left in awe of the damage done by the 48-hour storm.

Around Halifax, torrential rains closed major roadways, leaving vehicles bobbing on Hammonds Plains Road, and manholes bubbling over on the Bedford Highway.

New Brunswick residents were hit hard, with many drivers and homeowners flooded out.

In Moncton, Centennial Park is now underwater, with water up to the roof of the skating shack there.

The city’s Jones Lake breached its banks, crashing onto Main Street and trapping a motorist in the process.

Dana Arbeau and his family were watching movies in their suburban home Thursday night.

“The kids were playing on the floor with their toys and the toys started floating,” he said.

“The water was coming in from all angles like a river and within minutes the whole basement was flooded. Completely flooded.”

Shawn Walker escaped his Salisbury-area home in the nick of time.

“I started packing up some clothes and some stuff for work and by the time I had come out of the house 20 minutes later, I couldn’t leave,” he said.

Record-breaking rainfall was recorded in Moncton overnight, closing roads and flooding homes.

“The worst one is the Westbrook Circle neighbourhood off of Berry Mills Road, where we saw, at count right now, 25 homes flooded with water,” said Moncton Fire Chief Eric Arsenault.

Homeowners in Nova Scotia were also left worrying about the costs of the damage inflicted by the storm.

“As you can see we have waterfowl now calling his driveway home. Yeah, I've never seen it this bad,” said Mike Edwards, whose Purcells Cove home was hit when two nearby ponds flooded their banks and merged.

The water in his basement, he said, is above his knees.

“I talked to the insurance claim people this morning. They said ‘did you get a wet/dry vac to pump it out?’” Edwards said.

“And I'm thinking ‘where are we going to put the water? We've got 5 sump pumps running now!’”

In Branch LaHave, N.S. a bridge over Bruhm Road is gone, completely eaten away by the torrent, and in Elmsdale the Royal Canadian Legion looks like it had been built in the middle of a lake.

In Bedford, the Sackville River is up several metres, jumping its banks and flooding at least a half-dozen homes on Union Street.

Back in Purcells Cove, the Edwards, like those of many homeowners, are thinking about their insurance coverage.

Mike’s 82-year-old father, Ken, doesn’t put much faith in them.

“I'll probably be the one cleaning it up. Couple thousand dollars is all they allow you.”

With files from CTV Atlantic’s Jayson Baxter and David Bell