translated from Spanish: Storm Ida has left at least 25 people dead from flooding in the northeastern United States

Ida, which as a hurricane caused great devastation in the southern United States and then became a posttropical cyclone, hit in the last hours several states in the northeast of the country leaving at least 25 dead due to torrential rains, rapid flooding and hurricane winds. Thirteen deaths have been reported in New Jersey, of which four were in the same apartment complex in the town of Elizabeth; nine have been registered in New York, mostly in the Queens and Brooklyn neighborhoods; and three in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), according to the latest data from the media and authorities. In New York, eight of the nine deaths, including that of a 2-year-old boy, were recorded “in homes and residential basements” in Brooklyn and Queens due to flooding, plus one person killed in a traffic accident in Manhattan, Police Chief Dermot Shea said Thursday morning. Where Elizabeth’s mayor’s office detailed that those killed in the residential building – three relatives and a neighbor – drowned, while the New Jersey radio station 101.5 reported that most of the other victims in the state were trapped in their vehicles. In Pennsylvania, Montgomery County officials reported this morning that there have been three deaths related to Ida, including a woman who died when a tree hit a home, and that the worst part of the damage has occurred in the southeast of the state. AFTER leaving six dead in the southern U.S., Ida arrived with force in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut becoming a “historic” meteorological event, which in the case of the Big Apple has broken the records recorded just a few days ago with the heavy rains discharged by Storm Henri.In Central Park were recorded only in one hour 3.15 inches (8 centimeters) of water around 9 p.m., the highest number since data began to be collected in 1870, and the city first issued a rapid flood emergency warning, implying there is a deadly risk. The magnitude has been measured today in the statements of the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, who said that it is “the first time that there has been a sudden waterspout of this proportion” in the area and compared it to having “Niagara Falls on the street” and recognized “deficiencies in the drainage” local. Hochul, who declared a state of emergency Wednesday night, said at a news conference already under sunny skies that U.S. President Joe Biden offered federal assistance to assess the damage and that “money flows” as soon as possible to homes and businesses devastated by this phenomenon that has brought echoes of Hurricane Sandy. Bill de Blasio, stressed the need to “make changes” in the preparation for climate change and thanked the effort of the emergency teams that rescued yesterday “hundreds” of people, many of them trapped in vehicles full of water. In the overcrowded city, practically all the subway lines were suspended when they were flooded by authentic floods and waterfalls that fell both by the stairs of the stations and by the roofs of the tunnels, with spectacular incidents recorded by the citizens that today circulated through social networks. This has had a notable impact on New Jersey and Connecticut, whose governors also declared states of emergency last night to facilitate rescue and recovery work in areas hardest hit by torrential rains and flooding, especially neighborhoods and highways. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy called the impact of the posttropical cyclone “extraordinary” and “tragic” and said recovery efforts “will take some time.” In that state, entire neighborhoods have been submerged in the town of Cranford and evacuations of homes after the overflow of the Passaic River, whose waters trapped a vehicle in which three relatives were traveling, of which a 70-year-old man died, according to ABC 7.In Connecticut, where at the moment no deaths are mourned, Ida raised the flows of several rivers and there is a state police officer hospitalized after his vehicle was trapped by the waters at the height of the town of Woodbury, according to ct Insider.On its way to Canada, already as a posttropical cyclone, Ida is expected to “slowly end the threat of flooding” but there is a possibility that it will generate tornadoes as it passes through Rhode Island and Massachusettss, according to information from the National Weather Service (NWS).

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