There were hundreds of flight cancellations at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports and more than 200 canceled at Boston's Logan Airport in the last 24 hours, according to the Flightaware website. The storm also interrupted air and rail travel. The additional warming that scientists predict is coming will only make it worse. Gilland said recently arrived new cadets and others at the historic academy on the Hudson River were safe, but that assessing the damage will take time.Ītmospheric scientists say destructive flooding events across the globe have this in common: Storms are forming in a warmer atmosphere, making extreme rainfall a reality right now. Military Academy at West Point was pounded with more than 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) of rain that sent debris sliding onto some roads and washed others out. Maura Healey said there were reports of flooding in central and western Massachusetts and that state emergency management officials were in touch with local authorities. The village police station itself was full of mud and leaves after being flooded with about 5 inches (13 centimeters) of water, and a police car was swamped, Basile said. “They're calling this a `1,000 year event.”'Īs of Monday evening, several washed-out streets in Highland Falls remained impassable, leaving some residents stuck in their homes but otherwise OK, Police Chief Frank Basile said in a telephone interview. “Nine inches of rain in this community,” Hochul said during a briefing on a muddy street in Highland Falls. Kathy Hochul said at a news conference Monday that the storm sent “cars swirling in our streets” and dumped a “historic” amount of rain. Officials say the storm has already wrought tens of millions of dollars in damage. “She was trying to get through (the flooding) with her dog,” Neuhaus said, “and she was overwhelmed by tidal wave-type waves.” The force of the flash flooding dislodged boulders, which rammed into the woman's house and damaged part of its wall, Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus told The Associated Press. One of the worst-hit places was New York's Hudson Valley, where a woman identified by police as Pamela Nugent, 43, died as she tried to escape her flooded home in the hamlet of Fort Montgomery. Additional downpours in the region raised the potential for flash flooding rainfall in certain parts of Vermont had exceeded 7 inches ( 18 centimeters), the National Weather Service in Burlington said. The slow-moving storm reached New England in the morning after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut on Sunday. “We threw some dry clothes and our cats into the car and drove to higher ground.” “The river was at our doorstep,” said Pajala. Kelly Pajala said she and about half dozen others had to evacuate early Monday from a four-unit apartment building on the West River in Londonderry. It's just stressful,” shelter volunteer Amanda Gross said. About 30 people waited it out, some of them making cookies for firefighters who were working to evacuate and rescue others. Some people canoed their way to the Cavendish Baptist Church in Vermont, which had turned into a shelter. Roads were closed across the state, including many along the spine of the Green Mountains. There have been no reports of injuries or deaths related to the flooding in Vermont, according to state emergency officials. Water levels at several dams were being closely monitored. The towns of Londonderry and Weston were inaccessible, Cannon said, and rescuers were heading there to do welfare checks. Mike Cannon of Vermont Urban Search and Rescue said crews from North Carolina, Michigan and Connecticut were among those helping to get to towns that have been unreachable since torrents of rain belted the state overnight. One person was killed in New York's Hudson Valley as she tried to escape her flooded home. Rescue teams raced into Vermont on Monday after heavy rain drenched parts of the Northeast, washing out roads, forcing evacuations and halting some airline travel.
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