44 Dead As Flash Floods Hit New York Area In “Historic” Weather Event

New York, United States: Flash Flooding caused by the remnants of the Ida storm killed at least 44 people in the New York area last night until Thursday, including some of which perished in the basement during the “historic” event that was blamed for climate change.

Rainfall Record, which encouraged an unprecedented emergency flash emergency warning for New York City, changed the streets to the river and closed the subway service as running water platform to the track.

“I am 50 years old and I have never seen a lot of rain,” said the Mihajlov Method that was basement from his Manhattan restaurant flooded with three inches of water.

“It’s like living in the forest, like tropical rain. Extraordinary. Everything is very strange this year,” he told AFP.

Hundreds of flights were canceled at Laguardia and JFK airports, as well as in Newark, where the video showed a terminal flooded by rainwater.

“We are all together

– ‘Historic Weather Events’ –

Floods closed the main roads in New Jersey and New York Boroughs including Manhattan, Bronx and Queens, a car that soaked and forcing firefighters to save hundreds of people.

At least 23 people were killed in New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy told reporters.

“The majority of these deaths are individuals who are caught in their vehicles,” he said.

A state police died in neighboring Connecticut.

Thirteen died in New York City, including 11 who could not be separated from their underground, police said. Victims ranged from the age of two to 86 years.

“Among the most risky people during flash floods here are those who live in the off-the-book basement residence that do not meet the security codes needed to save their lives,” MPs of Parliament Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

“This is a working class, immigrants, and low-income & family people,” he added.

Three also died on the outskirts of New York Westchester, while four others died in Montgomery County outside the Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, a local official confirmed.

Ida lights up traces of destruction north after slamming to Louisiana over the weekend, bringing floods and severe tornadoes.

“We obscure historical weather events tonight with records that break records throughout the city, brutal floods and dangerous conditions on our way,” said Mayor New York Bill de Blasio.

The country’s emergency was stated in New York and New Jersey while the National Weather Service issued a warning of his first emergency flash flood for New York City, urging residents to move to a higher ground.

“You don’t know how deep water and it’s too dangerous,” said the New York branch of the National Weather Service (NWS) said in a tweet.

NWS recorded 3.15 inches (80 millimeters) in Central Park in just one hour – beating a record set last month during the Storm Henri.

The US Open was also stopped as a windless wind and rain blowing under the corner of the roof of the Armstrong Louis Stadium.

– Lingering tornado threat –

New York people woke up to clean the blue sky Thursday when the city returned to life, but signs of the previous night massacre not far away: residents moved the branches of fallen trees from the streets as subway services continued.

On Thursday night, around 38,000 houses in Pennsylvania, 24,000 in New Jersey and 12,000 in New York without strength, according to the Pourootote .us website, a significant decline from the beginning of the day.

It rarely occurs in storms to attack Northeast Seaboard America and come as a surface layer of the ocean to warm up due to climate change.

This warming causes cyclones to become stronger and bring more water, pose an increasing threat to the coastal community, said scientists.

“Global warming is on us and it will get worse and worse and worse unless we do something about it,” said Senator Democrat Chuck Schumer.

At Annapolis, 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Washington, Tornado tore the tree and dropped the electric pole.

NWS warned the threat of tornado to linger, with Tornado watches apply to parts of South Connecticut, New York, and South New York as Ida tracked in New England.

Tornado crashed into popular tourist destinations Cape Cod, Massachusetts on Thursday night.