Ida live updates: Remnants dump more than 9 inches of rain

The remnants of Ida dumped much than 9 inches of rainfall successful parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with New York’s Staten Island coming conscionable shy with 8.9 inches of rain.

Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee each got good implicit 4 inches, with immoderate of those places seeing much than fractional a ft of rain.

In New York City, Brooklyn recorded 7.76 inches of rain, midtown Manhattan, 7.49 inches, the Bronx 7.38 inches and Central Park 7.19 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service.

The National Weather Service began informing aboriginal Monday astir 3 to 6 inches of rainfall and “considerable flash flooding” from the mid-Atlantic to confederate New England from Ida’s remnants.

By Tuesday day meteorologists were informing of “high risk” of excessive rainfall, raising the full expected to 3 to 8 inches of rain.

The upwind work warned of “significant and life-threatening flash flooding” successful the portion particularly successful cities, starting astatine 5 p.m. connected Tuesday and repeated the informing done Wednesday afternoon.

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NEW YORK — State and metropolis officials are calling Wednesday’s downpour unprecedented and unforeseen. At slightest 9 radical died successful New York City, galore of whom were trapped successful flooded basements.

“We did not cognize that betwixt 8:50 and 9:50 p.m. past night, that the heavens would virtually unfastened up and bring Niagara Falls level of h2o to the streets of New York,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said astatine a briefing successful Queens.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said upwind projections failed to foretell specified a cataclysmic downpour. “We’re getting from the precise champion experts projections that past are made a mockery of successful a substance of minutes,” helium said.

Hochul said she has spoken with President Joe Biden, who promised national assistance.

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HURLEY, Va. — Search crews person recovered the assemblage of a idiosyncratic unaccounted for successful occidental Virginia aft flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

The Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the decease precocious Wednesday arsenic a effect of flooding successful the Guesses Fork country of Hurley.

Sheriff’s bureau Administrative Assistant Sharon Thornsbury said authorities had been looking for the idiosyncratic since Monday and everyone has present been accounted for.

Earlier this week, officials said astir 20 homes were moved from their foundations and respective trailers washed distant by the storm. Crews started clearing debris Wednesday.

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Officials estimation it volition instrumentality astatine slightest 30 days to reconstruct powerfulness successful the country and 1 twelvemonth for nationalist h2o to beryllium restored.

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PHILADELPHIA — Record flooding on the Schuylkill River successful Pennsylvania inundated homes and commercialized buildings, swamped highways, submerged cars and disrupted obstruction work successful the Philadelphia area.

Valerie Arkoosh, chairperson of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, said 3 radical died successful suburban Montgomery County and a histrion fell into a woman’s location successful Upper Dublin, sidesplitting her. Two different radical drowned, 1 successful a location and the different successful a car.

In a tweet, metropolis officials predicted “historic flooding” connected Thursday arsenic stream levels proceed to rise. The riverside assemblage of Manayunk remained mostly nether water.

Emergency workers successful the region completed much than 450 h2o rescues. That is 3 times the erstwhile record. Rescue efforts were continuing passim the morning.

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TRENTON, N.J. — Four radical person died successful Elizabeth, N.J., overnight arsenic a effect of the storm.

Elizabeth spokesperson Kelly Martins says the victims see a 72-year-old pistillate and her 71-year-old hubby on with their 38-year-old son. A 33-year-old pistillate who was their neighbour besides perished. The names of the victims were not released.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy connected Thursday greeting toured tornado harm successful Mullica Hill successful the confederate New Jersey Philadelphia suburbs.

Murphy said determination were nary fatalities from the tornado that near lumber scattered similar toothpicks, tore roofs disconnected and collapsed walls. He said determination were different deaths successful the authorities but didn’t springiness details. He said helium volition talk soon with President Joe Biden and is hopeful to get a large catastrophe declaration.

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WOODBURY, Conn. — An on-duty Connecticut authorities trooper and his cruiser were swept distant successful flood waters Thursday greeting successful the municipality of Woodbury, conscionable westbound of Waterbury.

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State constabulary and section authorities said the trooper was flown by chopper to Yale New Haven Hospital. No accusation connected his information was instantly disposable and helium was not identified.

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ELIZABETH, N.J. — Rescue crews are utilizing drones to alert implicit the swollen banks of a stream successful Elizabeth adjacent wherever 4 radical died erstwhile the ground-floor units of their flat analyzable flooded overnight.

Mayor J. Christian Bollwage told The Associated Press that the occurrence section rescued hundreds of radical from the analyzable and the surrounding area. The department's section offices adjacent to the Oakwood Plaza flat analyzable were besides inundated with 4 feet of flood waters.

“We had to drill down from the 2nd level of immoderate apartments to get to radical successful units beneath to rescue them,” Bollwage said. “We rescued hundreds of radical from cars oregon the tops of their cars.”

The Elizabeth River surged during dense rains overnight, causing catastrophic flooding. The stream is usually not larger than a trickle.

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