More than 45 dead after Ida's remnants blindside Northeast

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, DAVID PORTER and JENNIFER PELTZ

NEW YORK (AP) — A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers and tornado damage Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than 40 people in their homes and cars.

In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding but hadn’t braced for such a blow from the no-longer-hurricane, the storm killed at least 46 people from Maryland to Connecticut on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

At least 23 people died in New Jersey, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said. At least 13 people were killed in New York City, police said, 11 of them in flooded basement apartments, which often serve as relatively affordable homes in one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets. Suburban Westchester County reported three deaths.

Officials said at least five people died in Pennsylvania, including one killed by a falling tree and another who drowned in his car after helping his wife to escape. A Connecticut state police sergeant, Brian Mohl, perished after his cruiser was swept away. Another death was reported in Maryland.



Cars and trucks are stranded by high water Thursday, Sept 2, 2021, on the Major Deegan Expressway in Bronx borough of New York as high water left behind by Hurricane Ida still stands on the highway hours later. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/northeast-us-new-york-new-jersey-weather-60327279197e14b9d17632ea0818f51c

[northoftheborder]

1. Any news whether TFG's golf resort in NJ was damaged?

[NurseJackie]

4. Trump's NJ golf course did not suffer any newsworthy damage, apparently.

[BigmanPigman]

8. If it did he would profit off of it

and say the damage was 10 × the actual amount.

[sarisataka]

2. Blindside?

AP needs to look up the definition. Failing to prepare for a warned event does not fit.

[ruet]

3. Yeah, Not "Blindsided".

This was forecast to happen.

Google Search

[Polybius]

6. Yes but that day the weather just said rain so I left work work

No one said potential heavy flooding, otherwise I would have prepared my basement by moving things to a higher level.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Right. The NY Gov. said that

they predicted a lot of rain but spread out over 6 hours and not all in 1 hour.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Who was Major Deegan?

I grew up in NYC area, heard it 1000 times on the radio, I never knew. I thought it was Major Deacon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Deegan

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[UserNotFound]

10. I agree with those upthread

who had problems with the term "blindsided". I am a huge Weather Channel junkie, especially their "Weather Underground" program. I'll admit to a bit of infatuation with the show's female co-host, Alex Wilson, but that's another story...Weather Underground also features their resident "Hurricane Expert", Dr. Rick Knabb, former Director of The National Hurricane Center.
He lays things out in an easy-to-understand fashion using the National Weather Service models. Dr. Knabb was warning of severe, possibly catastrophic flooding in the Northeast from the remnants of Ida as she collided with a front moving in from the north several days before it happened. His forecast track for Ida after landfall was almost exactly spot-on. If y'all never listen to another "weatherman" in your life, listen to this guy; he's good, folks. Damn good.