Police went door to door in search of more possible victims and drew up lists of the missing as the death toll rose to 49 on Friday in the catastrophic flooding set off across the Northeast by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
The disaster underscored with heartbreaking clarity how vulnerable the US is to the extreme weather that climate change is bringing.
More than three days after the hurricane blew ashore in Louisiana, the storm’s rainy remains hit the Northeast with surprising fury on Wednesday and Thursday, submerging cars, swamping subway stations and basement apartments and drowning scores of people in five states.
It overwhelmed urban drainage systems never meant to handle so much rain in such a short time — 3 inches in just an hour in New York.
Commuter train service north of New York City remained suspended or severely curtailed. In the Hudson Valley, train tracks were covered in several feet of mud. New York’s subways were running with delays or not at all.
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