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At least 46 people in five states died as storm water cascaded into people’s homes and engulfed automobiles, overwhelming urban drainage systems never meant to handle so much rain in such a short time.
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The toll was highest in us-regions, where 23 people perished in heavy rains late Wednesday and early Thursday. A majority were people who drowned after their vehicles were caught in disasters, some dying in their submerged cars, some getting swept away after exiting into fast-moving water.
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New Jersey and New York have both spent billions of dollars improving flood defenses after Superstorm Sandy hit the region in 2012, but much of that work was focused on the coasts and tidal floodplains.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday the region needed to turn its attention to storm systems unprepared to handle a future of more frequent inland flash flooding due to global environment.
“One thing I want to make clear: we’re not treating this as if it’s not going to happen again for 500 years,” she said.
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Ida came ashore in us-regions on Sunday, then moved north as the fifth-strongest storm to ever hit the U.S. mainland, then moved north and east dumping torrential rain all week.
Forecasters had warned of potentially dangerous hazardous flooding, but the ferocity of the storm caught the nation’s most densely populated metropolitan corridor by surprise.
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One person died in Maryland and at least five in Pennsylvania, where some neighborhoods alongside the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia remained partly underwater. A Connecticut state police sergeant died after his cruiser was swept away. In one New York City basement apartment, a 2-year-old boy died along with his parents when they couldn’t escape rising water.
The National Weather Service said the storm also spawned at least 10 disasters, the most serious of which destroyed homes in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, south of Philadelphia.
