Best photos from Newsday photographer James Carbone

Sal Gomez, of Selden, leaves a Riverhead court in July with his wife, Jill, after the unlicensed driver who had injured him in a crash as he cycled in a triathlon was sentenced to community service.

Torrential rains in August caused the dam at Stony Brook's Mill Pond to fail.

Damage near Stony Brook's Mill Pond shown Aug. 18 after torrential rains.

A damaged home in Stony Brook on Aug. 21, after Mill Pond Dam collapsed due to severe rainfall. 

A damaged home on Main Street in Stony Brook shown Aug. 21 after severe rainfall caused the nearby Mill Pond dam to rupture.

Damaged in Stony Brook seen Aug. 20 from torrential rain.

The back of a house on Main Street in Stony Brook after the August storm.

Corey Huff, 2, of Hempstead, celebrates Easter Mass at Union Baptist Church in Hempstead on March 31.

A work crew stands in floodwaters on Mills Pond Road in St. James on Aug. 20.

Eric De Bono, charter adviser at the Stony Brook Mill Pond Fishing Club, with a rescued fish Aug. 22.

Volunteers rescue fish from Mill Pond in Stony Brook on Aug. 22.

The Mendelsohn Center was among several dorms and sites on the Stony Brook University campus whose flooding in August delayed students' move-ins.

Mill Pond Dam at Harbor Road in Stony Brook, with a house at right on Main Street shown Aug. 19 after the sever rainstorms.