Just when you thought that the worst is behind us, another disaster strikes. Don’t worry, it’s not another pandemic, murder hornets, or face-eating zombies.
No, this time it’s just good ole mother nature leaving a path of destruction from New Orleans all the way up to New York City in the form of a hurricane named Ida.
Images of historic rainfall have flooded the internet of the big city underwater after Hurricane Ida passed through.
The severity of the storm left meteorologists grasping for words, with words like “historic” and “stunning” bandied about to describe rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches falling in one hour, massive flooding that drowned a person in a car in Passaic, New Jersey and trapped many more across the area, snarled transportation by car, rail and plane and some closed schools on Thursday.
For the second time in two weeks, Central Park set an all-time record for the most amount of rain to fall in a single hour. Compounding the flooding was land that was already saturated from recent Tropical Storm Henri and an overall unusually rain-soaked summer.
Twitter users shared some absolutely stunning footage.
Left: New York City in climate disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Right: New York City in climate disaster reality, tonight (2021) pic.twitter.com/MWp2gsBO2b
— Jordan Grimes 🚰 (@cafedujord) September 2, 2021
Water cascades onto a New York City subway train as remnants of Hurricane Ida bring flooding rain to the Northeast. https://t.co/pKqmXs6g8J pic.twitter.com/sYmzPSGb1I
— ABC News (@ABC) September 2, 2021
The New York area awoke to a flood-ravaged landscape after the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought record rain, leaving a trail of death and damage across several states.
Follow our updates. https://t.co/qRqb9S4KmB pic.twitter.com/J072BpN7HI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 2, 2021
Flooding killed at least nine people, swept away cars, submerged subway lines and temporarily grounded flights in New York and New Jersey as the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought unprecedented rains to the U.S. northeast https://t.co/KdMEAd5kKi pic.twitter.com/1v1Il2vNuH
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 2, 2021
Other areas saw the effects of Hurricane Ida’s wrath. States like Pennsylvania and Maryland had tornadoes and flooding even after the storm passed.
The tail-end of Hurricane Ida is causing tornadoes across Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Kathy Hochul declared an emergency for the city and state as torrential rain caused flooding https://t.co/3hCeqnWEWV #NYCFlooding #tornado pic.twitter.com/PNt2AAjvup
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) September 2, 2021
