A man crosses Pearl Street, Portland, in the rain on April 16.
Alison Leavitt clutches an umbrella as she enters One City Center for a workout at the gym on April 16.
A GMC pickup truck is submerged in Pleasant River in Windham after it left River Road while traveling northbound on April 16. All the passengers escaped safely.
Pascaline Matundu Kunzi runs toward Free Street, Portland, under driving rain on Monday.
Allison and Josh Barrett, of Anacortes, Washington, gather under an umbrella to check a cellphone on Free Street on Monday.
A flower covered in water droplets and partially by ice lies on the ground in Kennebunk on April 16. Flowers that bloomed earlier in April are being beaten down by the cold, heavy precipitation hitting Maine this week.
Water droplets cover a flower growing out of ground coated in ice in Kennebunk on April 16.
Rainwater flies off a playground slide as Flynn Bahl, 5, of Portland, launches off the lip into a pile of lingering slush. Mother Maggie Drummond-Bahl bundled up Flynn and two younger brothers on Monday to brave the rain falling heavly on Goodwin Playspace in Deering Oaks. "It was so frigid yesterday that they were stuck inside all day and things were a little tough," she said. "I thought it would be better to get outside today and tire them out."
Tammy Parker of Portland strides past "Human Structures" -- a sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky at the Portland Museum of Art -- during her morning commute on a rain-soaked Monday.
A wave breaks over a sea wall along Eastern Avenue in Camp Ellis on April 16. The beleaugured seaside village in Saco has been damaged by numerous storms over the past few months and Monday's wind-driven waves battered Camp Ellis again.
A vehicle passes through a flooded section on Washington Avenue in Portland on April 16.
Unicyclist Hugh Sharp of Cape Elizabeth is reflected in a puddle at the Eastern Promenade Trail on Tuesday morning the day after heavy rains. Sharp, who was in the midst of a 20-mile ride from Cape Elizabeth to Falmouth and back, said he has been unicycling. "It's about freedom, fun and exercise," he said. "You're constantly thinking, because if you stop thinking, you fall. For me, it's living in the moment."
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