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FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. — A tornado deed the suburbs northbound of Philadelphia with winds of up to 130 miles per hour, the National Weather Service confirmed Thursday.
The twister stretched from Fort Washington to Horsham successful Montgomery County and ripped disconnected portion of the extortion astatine Upper Dublin High School successful Fort Washington.
It was 1 of respective suspected tornadoes that touched down successful the Philadelphia suburbs. The governor’s bureau said 3 areas of neighboring Bucks County, arsenic good arsenic Chester County, had suspected tornado damage. The upwind work was surveying those areas.
Elsewhere successful the state, Scranton saw its “wettest time connected record,” according to the governor’s office, Harrisburg and Altoona had their third-wettest days, and respective waterways successful southeastern Pennsylvania acceptable records for flooding.
More than 67,000 customers statewide remained without powerfulness Thursday, according to poweroutage.us which tracks outages nationwide.
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MORE ON STORM IDA:
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— More than 25 deaths and counting aft Ida remnants slam Northeast
— Four days aft Hurricane Ida struck Louisiana, galore are inactive without water, power
— Biden to survey Ida’s tempest harm successful Louisiana connected Friday
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NEW YORK — At slightest 12 radical person died successful New York City successful flooding caused by the remnants of Ida.
All but 1 of the radical killed successful the flooding truthful acold were successful basement apartments. Another antheral was recovered successful a car connected the flooded Grand Central Parkway successful Queens.
Police said they recovered the bodies of 3 of the radical astir noon successful a flooded basement adjacent Kissena Park successful Queens erstwhile they responded to a 911 call.
The main of the NYPD’s assemblage affairs bureau, Jeffrey Maddrey, said officers were going to door-to-door searching for radical trapped oregon killed.
“We are making definite determination are nary different victims of a akin quality with the surrounding homes,“ the main said.
Three different people, including 2 women and a man, were recovered dormant Thursday greeting successful a basement flat successful different conception of Queens.
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PHILADELPHIA — The absorption of a four-building, 941- portion flat analyzable adjacent the Benjamin Franklin Parkway successful Philadelphia person issued an evacuation bid for residents citing “deteriorating” conditions.
Water had rushed into the parking store and outdoor excavation areas astir the Park Towne Place apartments Thursday. The analyzable is astir 500 feet from the slope of the Schuylkill River.
Representatives from the Philadelphia Red Cross section were responding to effort to assistance residents find impermanent shelter.
The absorption said powerfulness to the buildings was being unopen disconnected and the doors would beryllium locked. They did not accidental however agelong they expected the evacuation to last. A telephone telephone to a fig listed for the apartments was not answered Thursday.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden says utmost storms similar Ida are a reminder that the clime situation is existent and the federation needs to beryllium amended prepared.
Biden sought to guarantee residents successful the Northeast connected Thursday that national archetypal responders are connected the crushed to assistance cleanable up aft Ida’s grounds rainfall and flooding.
The president spoke to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, and planned to besides talk with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.
He says helium made wide to the governors that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “is connected the ground.”
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell was the main national effect serviceman aft Superstorm Sandy walloped the portion successful 2012. Biden said she knows what to do.
Ida prompted the National Weather Service to contented a first-ever flood exigency for New York City and parts of Long Island.
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The remnants of Ida dumped much than 9 inches of rainfall successful parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with New York’s Staten Island coming conscionable shy with 8.9 inches of rain.
Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee each got good implicit 4 inches, with immoderate of those places seeing much than fractional a ft of rain.
In New York City, Brooklyn recorded 7.76 inches of rain, midtown Manhattan, 7.49 inches, the Bronx 7.38 inches and Central Park 7.19 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service began informing aboriginal Monday astir 3 to 6 inches of rainfall and “considerable flash flooding” from the mid-Atlantic to confederate New England from Ida’s remnants.
By Tuesday day meteorologists were informing of “high risk” of excessive rainfall, raising the full expected to 3 to 8 inches of rain.
The upwind work warned of “significant and life-threatening flash flooding” successful the portion particularly successful cities, starting astatine 5 p.m. connected Tuesday and repeated the informing done Wednesday afternoon.
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NEW YORK — State and metropolis officials are calling Wednesday’s downpour unprecedented and unforeseen. At slightest 9 radical died successful New York City, galore of whom were trapped successful flooded basements.
“We did not cognize that betwixt 8:50 and 9:50 p.m. past night, that the heavens would virtually unfastened up and bring Niagara Falls level of h2o to the streets of New York,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said astatine a briefing successful Queens.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said upwind projections failed to foretell specified a cataclysmic downpour. “We’re getting from the precise champion experts projections that past are made a mockery of successful a substance of minutes,” helium said.
Hochul said she has spoken with President Joe Biden, who promised national assistance.
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HURLEY, Va. — Search crews person recovered the assemblage of a idiosyncratic unaccounted for successful occidental Virginia aft flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
The Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the decease precocious Wednesday arsenic a effect of flooding successful the Guesses Fork country of Hurley.
Sheriff’s bureau Administrative Assistant Sharon Thornsbury said authorities had been looking for the idiosyncratic since Monday and everyone has present been accounted for.
Earlier this week, officials said astir 20 homes were moved from their foundations and respective trailers washed distant by the storm. Crews started clearing debris Wednesday.
Officials estimation it volition instrumentality astatine slightest 30 days to reconstruct powerfulness successful the country and 1 twelvemonth for nationalist h2o to beryllium restored.
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PHILADELPHIA — Record flooding on the Schuylkill River successful Pennsylvania inundated homes and commercialized buildings, swamped highways, submerged cars and disrupted obstruction work successful the Philadelphia area.
Valerie Arkoosh, chairperson of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, said 3 radical died successful suburban Montgomery County and a histrion fell into a woman’s location successful Upper Dublin, sidesplitting her. Two different radical drowned, 1 successful a location and the different successful a car.
In a tweet, metropolis officials predicted “historic flooding” connected Thursday arsenic stream levels proceed to rise. The riverside assemblage of Manayunk remained mostly nether water.
Emergency workers successful the region completed much than 450 h2o rescues. That is 3 times the erstwhile record. Rescue efforts were continuing passim the morning.
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TRENTON, N.J. — Four radical person died successful Elizabeth, N.J., overnight arsenic a effect of the storm.
Elizabeth spokesperson Kelly Martins says the victims see a 72-year-old pistillate and her 71-year-old hubby on with their 38-year-old son. A 33-year-old pistillate who was their neighbour besides perished. The names of the victims were not released.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy connected Thursday greeting toured tornado harm successful Mullica Hill successful the confederate New Jersey Philadelphia suburbs.
Murphy said determination were nary fatalities from the tornado that near lumber scattered similar toothpicks, tore roofs disconnected and collapsed walls. He said determination were different deaths successful the authorities but didn’t springiness details. He said helium volition talk soon with President Joe Biden and is hopeful to get a large catastrophe declaration.
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WOODBURY, Conn. — An on-duty Connecticut authorities trooper and his cruiser were swept distant successful flood waters Thursday greeting successful the municipality of Woodbury, conscionable westbound of Waterbury.
State constabulary and section authorities said the trooper was flown by chopper to Yale New Haven Hospital. No accusation connected his information was instantly disposable and helium was not identified.
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ELIZABETH, N.J. — Rescue crews are utilizing drones to alert implicit the swollen banks of a stream successful Elizabeth adjacent wherever 4 radical died erstwhile the ground-floor units of their flat analyzable flooded overnight.
Mayor J. Christian Bollwage told The Associated Press that the occurrence section rescued hundreds of radical from the analyzable and the surrounding area. The department’s section offices adjacent to the Oakwood Plaza flat analyzable were besides inundated with 4 feet of flood waters.
“We had to drill down from the 2nd level of immoderate apartments to get to radical successful units beneath to rescue them,” Bollwage said. “We rescued hundreds of radical from cars oregon the tops of their cars.”
The Elizabeth River surged during dense rains overnight, causing catastrophic flooding. The stream is usually not larger than a trickle.
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