Police went door to door in search of more possible victims and compiled lists of the missing, when the death toll from horrific floods triggered by the remain of Hurricane Ida in the Northeast rose to 49 on 3 September.
Record rainfall turned roads into rivers, halted subway traffic as water poured onto tracks, and drowned almost a dozen people in their basement homes.
The extreme weather, along with poor preparation, brought America’s largest city to its limit.
“People think it’s beautiful out, which it is, that this thing’s behind us and we can go back to business as usual, and we’re not there yet,”Phil Murphy
‘People think it’s beautiful out, which it is, that this thing’s behind us and we can go back to business as usual, and we’re not there yet,’ cautioned New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy.
Richie Leonardis, a 60-year-old who had one leg amputated and is in a wheelchair, said the siren blew out at about 4am on Thursday.
“was not built for seven inches of rainfall in a few hours.”Nicole Gelinas
Nicole Gelinas, an expert in town economics at the Manhattan Institute, another think-tank, said that the infrastructure of New York “was not built for seven inches of rainfall in a few hours.” Mr. Gelinas said that the city’s sewers clog up, and that “was not built for seven inches of rainfall in a few hours.” he said, to collect some of the water before it enters the sewage system.
President Joe Biden, who has made threats related to climate change a priority, flew to Louisiana, where over 800.000 people remained without power after Ida got battered offshore as a Category 4 storm.
In some states, leaders promised to look into whether something could be done to prevent a repetition of this kind of disaster.
