NEW YORK: The police left the door to the door to look for more likely victims and drew a missing list because the death toll rose to 49 on Friday in the disaster floods departing in the northeast by the remnants of the storm ida.
Disasters underlined with heartbreaking clarity How vulnerable to the extreme weather carried by climate change.
More than three days after the storm blew into land in Louisiana, the rain storm continued to hit the northeast with a surprising anger on Wednesday and Thursday, submerging cars, flooded the subway and underground apartments and drowned people in five countries.
This makes an extraordinary urban drainage system has never been intended to handle so much rain in a short time – 3 inches in just an hour in New York.
Commuter train services in northern New York City are still suspended or very limited.
In the Hudson Valley, the train line was covered with several mud feet.
Subasia New York ran with delays or not at all.
In Philadelphia, part of Vine Crosstown’s wine road remains underwater because people in the neighborhood along the swollen Schuylkill River began to clean and assess damage.
President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for New York and New Jersey.
The highest death toll in New Jersey, where at least 25 people perished.
The most sincere after their vehicle was trapped in a flash flood.
At least six people are still missing in New Jersey, said the Governor of Phil Murphy.
Floodwaters and fallen trees also take live in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York.
In New York City, 11 people died when they could not escape from the rise of water in their low-plain apartment.
After the storm, fire broke out in several new jersey houses and businesses which were largely inaccessible by firefighters due to floods.
Authorities said they suspected the gas leak triggered by the flood feeding the blazes.
Searching for the possibility of the victim does not end.
“I don’t have the right answer about how many people really disappear, but we will continue to work hard all night, all night to make sure we identify the location of everyone,” Rodney Harrison, New York City Police Chief, said Thursday.
In Wilmington, Delaware, the crew saved more than 200 people after the Brandywine River reached a record level, swamp road, bridge and home.
There are no big injuries or deaths reported.
Elsewhere, work continues to transport cars destroyed, cleaning mud and other debris from the streets and restoring transit services.
In Philadelphia, the crew worked seven large pumps to drain the flood freeway, with officials did not provide an estimate when the interstate that was highly traded would be fully reopened.
One-inch thick muck layer is left in the drying part.
Leaders in some countries promise to check whether something can be done to prevent disasters from happening again.
New Jersey and New York spent billions of dollars that enhance the flood defense after the sandy superstorm hit in 2012, but many of the jobs were mainly focused on protecting the public from sea water, not rain.
New York Gov.
Kathy Hochul said Thursday that the area needed to distract her to the storm system that was not ready to deal with the future of flooding flooding more often due to climate change.
“One thing I want to explain: We don’t treat this as if it won’t happen again for 500 years,” he said.
Ida came ashore in Louisiana on Sunday bound as the fifth strongest storm ever about US land, then moved north.
The forecast has warned of dangerous flooding, but the malignancy of storms captured the most dense metropolitan corridor in the country surprised.