by Jennifer Smith, Adam Schrader and Alastair Talbot at The Daily Mail
At least 28 people have been killed in the Northeast, including a family of three with a two-year-old boy who drowned in a New York City basement, after the tail-end of Hurricane Ida crept up on the tri-state area on Wednesday night bringing a month’s worth of rain in less than a day, flooding homes while people slept and tearing up parts of New Jersey with tornadoes.
Eight people were killed as water rushed into basement apartments in Brooklyn and Queens and people all over the city became stranded in flooded subway stations. MTA bus drivers were deployed to the stations to pick people up who were stranded and get them to safety.
The entire subway system was suspended and remains largely out of use on Thursday morning. AMTRAK has canceled services between Boston and Philadelphia and all of United Airlines’ flights out of Newark were suspended on Thursday morning – some 300.
Eight of the NYC victims died in flooded basement homes. One person was found in the backseat of a car on Thursday morning, at around 10am. They were in the backseat of the vehicle and had drifted from the Grand Central Parkway, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced on Thursday. A tenth man died in a vehicle in upstate New York.
Mingma Sherpa, 48, Ang Lama, 50, and their son two-year-old son, also called Ang (full name Lobsang) drowned in their home in Woodside, Queens. The New York City victims also include Roberto Bravo, 66; Phamatee Ramskriet, 43 and Khrishah Ramskriet, 22, 86-year-old Yue Lian Chen and Darlene Hsu, 48.
Fourteen people died in New Jersey – nine were swept away in cars that became submerged in the water and five died in an apartment complex in Elizabeth. Three people from one family – a 72-year-old woman, her 71-year-old husband and their 38-year-old son – died along with their 33-year-old female neighbor in the Oakwood Plaza Apartments in New Jersey.
A 19-year-old man died in Maryland when the Rock Creek River burst its banks and flooded nearby homes. Three people died in Pennsylvania.
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