“We are still in a dangerous part of this disaster we still have reports of people trapped in flooded homes and vehicles,” he said.ĭespite “historic and catastrophic” devastation from storms that delivered four times the amount of rain as Hurricane Irene did in 2011, flood mitigation during rebuilding after the hurricane appears to be helping reduce overall impact to infrastructure, Gov. Michael Cannon, program manager at Vermont Urban Search and Rescue, said local, state and federal partners had conducted 117 rescues, 67 evacuations from flooded homes, businesses or vehicles and 17 animals.
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“We have structural collapse teams staged across the state as well as fire and code inspectors ready to deploy as soon as the water recedes to ensure impacted buildings are safe,” she said. But she emphasized that the response was still in the early stages and the focus was on saving lives with “life threatening isolations that we are trying to identify and rescue.” of Public Safety Commissioner Jennifer Morrison said there were no reports of any injuries or deaths in the state as of 9:30 a.m. "Right now my street looks more like a lake," said Lucinda Mercer, 64, as she peered out her apartment window in Hoboken, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from New York.Vermont Dept. US President Joe Biden on Thursday said the federal government stood ready to provide "all the assistance that's needed." The governors of New York and New Jersey urged residents to stay home as crews worked to clear roadways and restore service to subways and commuter rail lines serving millions of residents. The number of disasters, such as floods and heat waves, driven by climate change has increased fivefold over the past 50 years, according to a report released earlier this week by the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency. "Because of climate change, unfortunately, this is something we're going to have to deal with great regularity," said Kathy Hochul, New York's newly inaugurated governor. New York officials blamed much of flooding on the high volume of rainfall in a short span of time, rather than the daily total, which was within predictions.
Record-breaking rain Ida's remnants brought 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 cm) of rain to a swath of the Northeast from Philadelphia to Connecticut and set an hourly rainfall record of 3.15 inches for Manhattan, breaking one set by Tropical Storm Henri less than two weeks ago, the National Weather Service said.
The house next door appeared to have burned down to the waterline on a street where parked cars were submerged. Video footage on the Weather Channel showed flames billowing from a house in the riverfront town of Manville, New Jersey, where flooding prevented access by fire trucks. And a Connecticut state trooper perished after his cruiser was swept away in floodwaters in the town of Woodbury early Thursday, state police said. Four people died in suburban Philadelphia as a result of the storm, according to county spokesperson Kelly Cofrancisco. Emergency squads were waiting for the waters to recede on Thursday before starting evacuations of possibly hundreds of people who live in nearby apartments, officials said. In Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, the Schuylkill River inundated hotels, warehouses and condominiums that line the river.
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