Headstones at a cemetery that flooded are seen in Somerville, New Jersey. A stunned US East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than two dozen people in their homes and cars. — AP
NEW YORK: Cellphones across New York and New Jersey pulsed with urgent warnings of catastrophic flooding as the fury of Hurricane Ida’s remnants, carrying torrential rains, approached upper New Jersey and New York City on Wednesday.
The first alerts of severe weather blared across millions of phones at 8.41pm that night when the National Weather Service warned of dangerous flash flooding from the looming storm. Officials would issue three more alerts, late into the night, urging people to immediately head for higher ground and to stay out of rising floodwaters.
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Headstones at a cemetery that flooded are seen in Somerville, New Jersey. A stunned US East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than two dozen people in their homes and cars. — AP
A vacate order from the New York City Department of Buildings is posted on an apartment building door, on Sept 3, 2021 in the Queens borough of New York. People died in a basement apartment Wednesday as rain and flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida sent the New York City area into a state of emergency. — AP
Jason Marotta, right, speaks on his phone as his brother watches the remains of their house that was destroyed due to severe flooding from Tropical Storm Ida in Manville, New Jersey, on Sept 3, 2021. The cleanup and mourning has continued as the Northeast US recovers from record-breaking rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. — AP
A subway station that had earlier flooded remains closed after a state of emergency was declared in New York on Sept 2, 2021, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida remained powerful as it moved along the Eastern seaboard. — AP
Felix Delapuente, a neighbor fo the home in the Queens borough of New York where some of the occupants died including a two-year old child, shows the flood damage in his basement, on Sept 2, 2021, in New York. The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over New York City, with several deaths linked to flooding in the region as basement apartments suddenly filled with water and freeways and boulevards turned into rivers, submerging cars. — AP
