"It just came through and ripped," said resident Jeanine Zubrzycki, 33, who hid in her basement with her three children as their house shook and lights flickered. The National Weather Service said the ferocious storm also spawned at least 10 tornadoes from Maryland to Massachusetts, including a twister with winds up to 241 km/h that splintered homes and toppled silos in Mullica Hill, N.J., south of Philadelphia. "How can something like this happen?"ĭeborah Torres, right, talks to police officers outside her home in the Queens borough of New York where three people died when their basement apartment flooded. But the water was rushing in so strongly that she said she figured they weren't able to open the door. Connecticut: An on-duty state trooper was swept away in flood waters Thursday morning in Woodbury, and later taken to hospital where he died, authorities said.ĭeborah Torres, who lives on the first floor of a building where three people died in a basement apartment in New York City's Queens borough, said water rapidly filled her first-floor apartment to her knees as her landlord frantically urged her neighbours below - who had a baby - to get out, she said.Maryland: A 19-year-old man was killed in the flooding at an apartment complex in Rockville, Md., early Wednesday, police said. Pennsylvania: At least five people died, including three in suburbs outside Philadelphia. One person was killed by a falling tree while another drowned in a car and a third died in a home.New Jersey: Among the 23 confirmed dead by the state's governor were four people found dead in one apartment complex in Elizabeth, N.J.New York: At least 13 people died in New York City, police said, one of them in a car and 11 in flooded basement apartments that often serve as relatively affordable homes in one of the nation's most expensive housing markets.In a region that hadn't expected a serious blow from the no-longer-hurricane, the storm killed at least 46 people from Maryland to New York on Wednesday night - including 23 in New Jersey alone - as basement apartments suddenly filled with water, rivers and creeks swelled to record levels and roadways turned into car-swallowing canals. East Coast woke up Thursday to a rising death toll, surging rivers and destruction from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which walloped the region with record-breaking rain days after one of the strongest U.S.
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