Deadly storms batter the Northeast and cause severe flash flooding, submerging cars and prompting water rescues
Severe thunderstorms and showers across the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast triggered deadly flash flooding in the tristate area where roads were turned into rivers, cars were submerged in fast-rising waters, and water rescues unfolded on Long Island and in Connecticut.
Severe thunderstorms and showers across the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast triggered deadly flash flooding in the tristate area where roads were turned into rivers, cars were submerged in fast-rising waters, and water rescues unfolded on Long Island and in Connecticut.
New York, Connecticut and New Jersey were pounded by heavy rain overnight. Two locations — parts of Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut, and Suffolk County, New York —experienced historic rainfall, reaching the threshold of 1,000-year rainfall event.
Approximately 10 inches of rain fell in 12 hours around Oxford and Southbury, Connecticut; meanwhile Suffolk County, New York, clocked an estimated 7 inches in three hours near Stony Brook.
In Long Island, a flash flood emergency was declared Sunday evening for Suffolk County, and expired early Monday. The National Weather Service office in New York reported that about 4 to 6 inches of rain had fallen by late Sunday at an expected rate of 2 to 3 inches an hour.
Multiple water rescues were taking place Sunday night in parts of Nesconset, Ronkonkoma, Smithtown and St. James, the weather office said.
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