NEW YORK: At least eight people were killed in New York after the city was flooded with Flash floods, said the police on Thursday, when Storm Ida brought havoc in the United States, forcing flight cancellations and emergency declarations.
Ida slammed to the southern state of Louisiana over the weekend, bringing a severe flood and tornado when it lit up in the trace of North Destruction.
State Governor New York Kathy Hochul expressed an emergency when the remnants of storm caused a massive flood in the country’s financial and cultural capital, leaving Borough from Brooklyn and Queens with severe.
The police did not say how eight deaths in the city occurred.
The State Governor Phil Murphy also stated an emergency in neighboring New Jersey, where CNN reported at least one person was killed in the city of Passaic, bringing the death toll confirmed from IDA 16.
“We were experiencing historical weather events tonight with a rain-broke rain In all cities, brutal floods and dangerous conditions on our way, “said Mayor Bill De Blasio in a tweet when he declared an emergency in the city.
Hundreds of flights have been canceled at the nearby Laguardia airport and JFK, as well as in Newark, where the video shows the terminal is flooded by rainwater.
Floods have closed the main streets in several regions including Manhattan, Bronx and Queens.
The streets are converted into rivers while the city subway station is also flooded, and the Metropolitan Transport Authority reports services is effectively closed.
Because the recording showed a drowning car on the streets in all cities, the authorities urged residents to not drive on the road that flooded.
“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 – the most arranged hours in the area.
The city previously issued a rare flood emergency warning that urged residents to move to a higher ground.
“Flash floods are significant and threaten the possibility of coming from the mid-Atlantic to New New England,” NWS said in a bulletin, adding that three to eight inches of rain could destroy the area until Thursday.
At Annapolis, 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the US capital, Tornado tore the tree and hit an electric pole.
NWS warns the threat of the tornado to linger, with Tornado watches apply to parts of South Connecticut, New Jersey, and South New York.
“It’s very dangerous and potentially turning off the flash floods taking place in Somerset County, and others in the area,” NWS account for the Philadelphia Metropolitan area tweeted at the end of Wednesday, along with car videos trapped in water.
Ida is expected to continue to confirm the north and bring heavy rainfall on Thursday to New England, which is also exposed to a rare tropical storm at the end of August.
US President Joe Biden was caused by a Friday trip to Louisiana, where Ida destroyed the building and left more than one million houses without strength.
Storms often occur in the South United States, but scientists have warned of the increase in storm activity when the surface of the sea warms up due to climate change, pose a threat to the coastal community.
Eight was killed in New York City because Ida brought a flash flood
