NEW YORK: Four Indians have been killed in the state of New Jersey and New York after they were swept away by flash floods caused by Hurricane Ida.
Hurricane Ida, which made the land on August 29 in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, was the second most destructive storm to record the country, only after Hurricane Katrina (2005).
A report at Patch.com said 31-year-old Dhanush Reddy from Edison died last week after being swept as a 36-inch storm drain pipe in South Plainfield, New Jersey.
The report added that the South Police of Plainfield, the Middlesex County water rescue team and police Piscataway arrived at the officials where officials helped motorists in the Hadley and Stelton Road area and heard crying to ask for help.
Authorities said two men were swept into the pipe, which switched from South Paris to Piscataway.
While one of the men was saved, the others could not be found and the authorities found Reddy’s body in a forested area a few miles away after he sank.
“Many flood victims live in basement apartments, some of which are underground residences carved illegally from larger houses and may not have an emergency exit needed from legitimate apartments.
The living room is relatively cheap, they are the protection of thousands of cities Poor, even when they are known as Firetraps, “said a report on the New York Times.
“Overnight, the basement becomes a water trap,” he added.
The NYT report added that Ramskriets, a family of four, were at their queen’s house when flood water reached their ankle.
When they tried to get their belongings, “they heard collapsed and water bursts pushed them through a black-black apartment when the wall gave up.” Floods swept old Dameshwar Ramskriets throughout the house when he gripped his wife’s hand in Tara.
“I tried to eradicate my wife, and she tried to hug me,” he said on Thursday according to the NYT report.
“But the water pushed me away and I couldn’t feel his hand anymore.” Tara Ramskriet and his 22-year-old son, Nick, sank.
Another Indian person, Malathi Kanche, 46, a software designer, was driving at home with his 15-year-old daughter on Wednesday when his vehicle stopped in the waist flood water on the route 22 Bridgewater, New Jersey.
Kanche and his daughter held the tree as a flood to attract them, according to a family friend, Mansi Mago, but the tree fell, pulled the Kanche in the torrent.
Initially, officials put Kanche in the list of “missing people”.
He was confirmed to die on Friday, NYT reported.
The Nepal family who lives in a basement apartment in Queens also died when storm water flooded their apartment, made them stuck inside.
Mingma Sherpa has panicked to call her neighbor, Choi Sledge who lives above to ask for help, say “the water is now.” “Get out! To the third floor!” Sledge has told Sherpa.
The NYT report said that the family did not rise.
The sledge called them again and in a short call, Sherpa told him “the water came from the window.” Sherpa, her husband, old lobsang, and their little boy named Ang-all who sank in a storm.
Ida turned to the post-tropical cyclone on September 1, killing 65 people throughout the US, with the majority of deaths in New Jersey, New York and Louisiana.
Apart from the death and damage of ecology, the Ida storm has beaten civil infrastructure in the northeastern state of the US.
The storm has caused at least USD 50 billion compensation, according to an official estimate.