230,000 without electricity.

[Jolly]

Bad, but I bet it doesn't take a month to get back on...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9949401/New-York-New-Jersey-Pennsylvania-hit-flooding-remnants-Hurricane-Ida-hit.html

[jon-nyc]

Ida has now claimed more lives in New York City and the tri-state area than in Louisiana

Wow.

[Jolly]

We're still digging folks out.

But consider...Y'all got the rain, but y'all didn't get the 150+mph wind. Toss that into the mix and think what you would have.

[jon-nyc]

True that.

I’m a little curious what I’ll come home to. We have occasional flooding issues in our basement.

Apparently all the major expressways in Westchester were flooded and closed with abandoned cars on them overnight.

[Jolly]

Hopefully, it's fine, but I'd check on it as soon as you can. Longer the water sits, the more problems it causes.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in 230,000 without electricity.:

Ida has now claimed more lives in New York City and the tri-state area than in Louisiana

Wow.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/at-least-seven-people-killed-overnight-in-nyc-in-historic-flooding/

At least 44 people were killed from New York to Maryland — including a 2-year-old boy and his parents who drowned in a basement apartment in Queens — as the tail-end of Hurricane Ida ravaged the northeast.

The storm knocked out power and flooded streets, homes and subways — prompting the first-ever flash flood emergency for the Big Apple and leaving a trail of devastation across the northeast.

At least 12 people died in the city after becoming trapped in flooded basement apartments and one person was found dead in the back of their car on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said at least 23 residents had died, the majority of them “individuals who got caught in their vehicles by flooding and were overtaken by the water.”

Suburban Westchester County reported three fatalities, including a Mount Kisco man found dead in floodwaters in Elmsford, who was identified as Rabbi Shmuel David Weissmandl, the son of a famed Jewish religious leader.

One person was killed after getting caught in flash floods in Westchester and 12 people died in the Garden State, including four found in the same apartment complex.

[jon-nyc]

@jolly said in 230,000 without electricity.:

Hopefully, it's fine, but I'd check on it as soon as you can. Longer the water sits, the more problems it causes.

Right after you posted this I had my neighbor check in. Somehow I was spared any flooding.

[Jolly]

That's a good thing.