The Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia is flooded on Thursday after the area was pounded by remnants of Hurricane Ida In Monsey, New York, a rabbi died in his car after contacting his family and asking them to send help. The couple were on their way home from their daughter's college volleyball game when the flash floods hit in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. His wife, Kate, clung to a tree for an hour before being saved but Don never made it out of the car.
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The nation is here to help,' Biden said on Thursday.Īmong the dead is Don Bauer, a 65-year-old retired school bus driver who pushed his wife out of the back windshield of their Mazda SUV as it sank. 'My message to everyone affected is: We're all in this together. The fifth most powerful hurricane to strike the United States came ashore in southern Louisiana on Sunday, knocking out power for more than a million customers and water for another 600,000 people, creating miserable conditions for the afflicted who are also enduring suffocating heat and humidity.Īt least nine deaths were reported in Louisiana, with another 46 killed as flash flooding and tornadoes hit the Northeast on Wednesday night. Environmental Protection Agency said it has dispatched a surveillance aircraft to an area in Louisiana hard hit by Hurricane Ida that includes a refinery where an apparent oil spill has been reported.
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Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf coast last weekend and carved a northern path through the eastern United States, culminating with torrential rains and widespread flooding in New York, New Jersey and surrounding areas on Wednesday. The death toll from Hurricane Ida in the Northeast has risen to 46 across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Connecticut, with pictures from the region showing cars stranded on highways as bodies are found in flooded basement apartments.Īs the scale of the devastation is revealed in the Northeast, president Joe Biden will visit Louisiana on Friday to get a first-hand look at the destruction wrought by Ida that tore through the southern portion of the state and left 1 million people without power.īiden will take an aerial tour of hard hit communities, including Laffite, Grand Isle, Port Fourchon and Lafourche Parish, before meeting with local leaders in Galliano, Louisiana, the White House said.
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