Death toll tops 30 after Ida's remnants blindside Northeast

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The death toll from the remnants of Ida has topped 40 people from Maryland to Connecticut, with more than 23 deaths reported in New Jersey alone.

with record-breaking rain, drowning more than two dozen people in their homes and cars.

“I was obviously scared, but I had to be strong for my son. I had to calm him down,” she recalled Thursday as medical examiners removed three bodies from a home down the street. “We did not know that between 8:50 and 9:50 p.m. last night, that the heavens would literally open up and bring Niagara Falls level of water to the streets of New York,” said Hochul, a Democrat whoDe Blasio, also a Democrat, said he’d gotten a forecast Wednesday of 3 to 6 inches of rain over the course of the day. The city’s Central Park ended up getting 3.15 inches just in one hour, surpassing the previous recorded high of 1.

In Elizabeth, New Jersey, near Newark Airport, four people died and 600 were left homeless from rain and river flooding in an apartment complex, Mayor J. Christian Bollwage said. In New Jersey’s Milford Borough, authorities said they found a man’s body in a car buried up to its hood in dirt and rocks.

 

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Good work on this piece! You brought a multistate crisis into better focus.

We don’t care 600,000 people are dead from a virus why would we care about 40 people dead from a storm? Murica

Those democrat states seem woefully unprepared for how serious they say climate change is

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Weather does not equal climate.

🙏❤️ to all families affected stay safe

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