More than 5.5 inches of rain fell in the New York region Sunday, shattering the record for the date of 1.8 inches set in 1906, according to the National Weather Service. Storm warnings and watches were posted all along the East Coast, with coastal flood watches from Maryland to Maine through at least Monday morning. The storm system already had been blamed for five deaths on Friday in Kansas and Texas. One person was killed in South Carolina as dozens of mobile homes were destroyed or damaged by wind. Inland areas from eastern New York to Maine faced a threat of heavy snow. Some New Jersey shore residents evacuated, and officials in Connecticut urged some residents along the Long Island Sound to do the same. The storm flooded people out of their homes in the middle of the night in West Virginia and trapped others. But some commuter rail service on the Metro-North Railroad was disrupted and service between the six southernmost stops on the Staten Island Railway, which runs along the east side of that borough, was suspended for several hours because of flooding.NEW YORK (AP) - A nor'easter battered the East with strong wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding hundreds of airline flights, downing power lines and threatening severe coastal flooding. The remnants of Ida crippled New York City’s mass transit system, the second time in just a few months that the subway was the setting for striking images of water rushing freely into places clearly unable to accommodate it.Īs of Tuesday afternoon, some buses were experiencing scattered weather-related delays. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the city’s subway, buses and commuter rails, also said it was taking extensive steps to prepare for possible flooding. As of 11 a.m., the Weather Service had recorded 3.31 inches of rain in Midtown Manhattan, 2.43 inches of rain in Central Park and just over 2 inches at the city’s two airports in Queens.Ĭity officials also advised residents of basement apartments like those that flooded last month to be ready “to move to a higher floor during periods of heavy rain” and anyone living in flood-prone areas to “keep materials such as sandbags, plywood, plastic sheeting, and lumber on hand” to protect their homes. The rain was expected to continue through Tuesday, with a flash flood watch in effect for the bulk of the New York area into Tuesday evening. on Tuesday, the state’s police superintendent, Colonel Patrick Callahan, said. New Jersey state troopers had responded to 188 crashes by 10 a.m. The Weather Service warned residents not to drive into flooded roads and cautioned that storm runoff would likely cause flooding in urban areas and low-lying spots.
Parts of central New Jersey were also under similar flood warnings early Tuesday, with meteorologists there warning of “life-threatening flash flooding” in Monmouth County in particular. Schools in nearby Bayonne and Montclair were also closed. “In order to keep all students safe, all schools will be closed,” said Franklin Walker, the superintendent of Jersey City’s public school system, one of the largest in the state. Rutgers University asked instructors to move all of their classes online on Tuesday.
Several public school districts in those areas decided to close in anticipation of the storm.
Roads were flooding in parts of New Jersey, Connecticut and New York, with flood warnings remaining in effect through Wednesday on the Saddle River in Lodi, N.J., and the Ramapo River in northeast New Jersey and Orange and Rockland counties in New York.Įarly on Tuesday, parts of northeastern New Jersey that had been inundated last month - including the state’s largest cities, Newark, Jersey City and Paterson, as well as areas on the Hudson River waterfront - were placed under a flash flood warning that coincided with the morning commute.
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