FLETCHER, Vt. (AP) – Floodwaters blocked roads in northern and central Vermont on Tuesday after a third straight day of torrential rain and violent thunderstorms.

Roads in Cambridge, Fairfax, Fletcher, Colchester, Essex and Milton were closed Tuesday morning.

Damage was widespread. State emergency management officials said damage to public property could reach $1 million.

Flooding left residents throughout the region cut off from their homes and workplaces. Water swamped dozens of basements. Power outages affected thousands, but utilities had restored service to most locations by Monday afternoon.

A few minor injuries were reported, said Chief Gary Palmer of the St. Albans City Fire Department.

Roads were washed out or blocked by rising water, which filled streams and carved its own overflowing courses through pastures and down mountainsides.

In St. Albans, a Sunday-night storm packed powerful winds and ripped apart an athletic field’s press box, toppled trees onto houses, littered neighborhood streets with branches and, after a direct lightning strike, knocked out phones and computers at Town Hall.

“It was like a mini-hurricane,” said Bernie Martel, 46, of St. Albans as he worked to clear a fallen tree from his house.

The Lancaster family had just finished pumping water from a Sunday flash flood out of their Fletcher basement Monday afternoon when thunder boomed, lightning flashed and rain began pelting down again.

Less than an hour and 3 inches of precipitation later, the basement brimmed again with murky water. Stones Brook, a normally modest stream only feet from the Lancaster front door, sprang from its banks, raged across the lawn, surrounded the house and swallowed dirt and grass before disappearing through a bridge under Fairfield Road.

Crews in already soggy Fletcher went to work repairing roads, fixing driveways and draining basements about as soon as the Sunday storm ended, said Town Clerk Elaine Sweet. They thought they were making progress — but then the Monday skies brought another downpour.

“We lost all the back roads,” Ted Lancaster said. “We worked on them this morning, but we’ve lost them again.”