At least 13 people were killed in New York City, police said, 11 of them in flooded basement apartments.
NEW YORK — A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers and tornado damage Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning at least 46 people in their homes and cars.
Sophy Liu said she tried using towels and garbage bags to stop the water coming into her first-floor New York City apartment, but the flood rose to her chest in just a half hour. She roused her son from bed, put him in a life jacket and inflatable swimming ring and tried to flee, but the door stuck. She called two friends who helped her jar it loose.
Still, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the storm’s strength took them by surprise. In Washington, President Joe Biden assured Northeast residents that federal first responders were on the ground to help clean up. Residents said they have complained for years about flooding on another Queens street, where a woman and her 22-year-old son died in a basement apartment. Her husband and the couple’s other son were spared only because they stepped out to move a car, next-door neighbor Lisa Singh said.Police were still going door-to-door in flooded areas Thursday evening and didn’t have a firm number of unaccounted-for people, Chief of Department Rodney Harrison said.
“She lost everything,” Turner said as he headed to a bank for money to buy his mother clothes and shoes. “And then you could just hear people crying,” said Zubrzycki, 33, whose home was damaged but livable.
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