Above photo Hurricane Ida caused flash flooding in New Jersey
At least 51 people have been confirmed dead after Hurricane Ida tore through the northeast last week
Authorities in New Jersey on Monday resumed the search for two college students whose car was swept away in the flash floods.
New York had 17 confirmed deaths: Four in Westchester County and the rest in New York City where nearly all victims became trapped in basement apartments in Queens or Brooklyn.
In New Jersey, there were 27 confirmed storm deaths and four people still missing, according to Governor Phil Murphy’s office.
Among the missing are the two college students — Nidhi Rana, 18, and Ayush Rana, 21 –who were last seen in Passaic on Wednesday when their car was floating toward a section where the water flows underground toward the Passaic River.
A dozen search boats and a state police air unit were carrying out the latest search for the two friends on Sunday, Passaic Mayor Hector Lora told the Associated Press.
Other storm deaths were reported in Connecticut where State Police Sgt. Brian Mohl was swept away in his vehicle, Pennsylvania with at least five dead and Maryland with at least one dead.
President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Manville, New Jersey and Queens on Tuesday to survey then storm damage.
Governor Kathy Hochul said the historic rainfall caused more than $50 million in damage after walls of water cascaded through businesses, public transport and 1,200 homes in her state.
The human toll was tremendous,” Hochul said as she recalled last week’s visit to Queens to assess the devastation.
“One woman wept in my arms, an 89-year-old woman. She had nothing left after living in that home for over 40 years.” Read more from NYPost
From 08/31/2021
Hurricane Ida: Images from near and far
Image of Hurricane Ida from one million miles away in space and a little closer.
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The massive Hurricane Ida is easily visible on Earth from 1 million miles away as seen by NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory in orbit at a stable Lagrange point on Aug. 29, 2021 as the storm made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm.
Ida made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana as a terrifying Category 4 hurricane, slamming into the state 16 years to the day of the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The storm knocked out power to thousands across the state and was expected to cause flooding from storm surge and torrential rain, as well as wind damage.
And closer
Two NASA centers, the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi were placed on emergency lockdown during the storm, with only essential personnel on hand to ride out the hurricane. Read more from Space
And closer still
About a million customers were left without power as a slow-moving storm pummeled the region, causing at least two deaths.
Ida has now become a Category 1 hurricane in the Caribbean Sea and is forecast to hammer the northern U.S. Gulf Coast as a major hurricane this weekend with life-threatening storm surge, dangerous rainfall flooding, potentially devastating winds and tornadoes.
Winds have ticked up to 75 mph according to Hurricane Hunters currently flying around inside Ida, making the storm a hurricane. This increase means that Ida is already rapidly intensifying since winds increased from 30 mph Thursday afternoon to 75 mph Friday afternoon, an increase of 35 mph in less than 24 hours.. Read more from NWP
