Two New Jersey people were killed overnight after being swept by floods in a storm that spread across the Northeast of the United States overnight.
Governor Phil Murphy On July 3, deaths related to the storm.
“We’re not unique, but now we’re in one of this high humidity, high temperature, high intensity mode,” Murphy told reporters after the Berkeley Heights tour. “Everyone needs to be on guard.”
The names of the two latest victims were not immediately released Tuesday. Local officials said the vehicle they were riding was swept into the stream during the storm.
“Emergency responded quickly, but sadly, the two were pronounced dead at the scene,” the city said in a statement posted online.
New York subway flooded
Heavy rains also caused flash flooding in New York and south-central Pennsylvania, prompting road blockade and roaring on the New York City subway.
At a site in Manhattan, viral videos posted online show water flooding to the Manhattan subway station, flooding the platform while passengers are in the train watch. Another photo appears to show people standing in train seats to prevent water from starting to soak the floor.
Janno Lieber, chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA), told ABC 7 in New York that the city’s sewer system was overwhelmed by the rain and poured into subway tunnels and stations. In some cases, the backup “pop up manholes”, he said, creating the dramatic “gesers” seen in some videos.
Heavy rains caused severe flooding in New York and New Jersey on Monday night. The New York City’s Bus Administration said its subway service was experiencing significant delays as video poured floods into stations and into platforms.
“What happened last night was a reality in our system,” he told the station. “We have been working with New York City to try to get them to increase the capacity of the system at these major locations. ”
Lieber said that after hundreds of people resumed operations overnight, there is now a full set of subway services, as well as complete Long Island Rail and North Commuter Rail services.
It turns out that despite billions of dollars in waterproofing efforts, flooding has proven to be a stubborn problem in the New York subway system.
Superstorm Sandy promoted years of subway repairs and flooding ideas in 2012, and some have put them into practice. In some places, transit officials have installed or are installing storm barriers, seals and curbs under subway vents to improve vents and entrances above sidewalks.
Meanwhile, the remains of summer thunderstorms and hurricanes have re-submerged parts of the subway system. In 2021, Hurricane Ida remnants killed more than a dozen New York City residents, mainly in basement apartments and once again sent water into the subway, regaining attention to resilience suggestions.
The latest storm prompted multiple rescues in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where the streets and basements were flooded after about 18 cm of rain fell. On Tuesday, parts of Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey remained closed. Murphy said the road yielded in some places, and state and local officials are assessing the loss levels in several counties, noting that the White House has reached out to his office.
A major East-to-West Expressway in New Jersey has been closed for emergency repairs, while dozens of flights were delayed or cancelled at the airport Tuesday, including at least 173 evacuations at Newark Free Airport, according to Flightaware data.
As the rain progresses, most flash torrents and warnings expire in New Jersey, New York and parts of Pennsylvania.
The sewer is overwhelmed
New York City officials said their ancient sewer system operates as much as possible, but is not at all to deal with the second highest recorded in Central Park with rainfall at the second highest amount, surpassing rainfall in 2021 remnants of Hurricane IDA.
“Imagine putting a bottle of two liters of water into a bottle of one liter. Some of it will overflow,” Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said in a virtual news briefing Tuesday.
The city does not run a subway system – it is under a separate MTA – but Aggarwara said the two entities have been working together to clean sewers near 45 flood-prone subway stations. The city has also developed plans to upgrade sewers to handle more water, and it is estimated that in about 80 areas that require it, we need $30 billion to do so. The city currently spends about $1 billion a year on stormwater management.
