The east coast was criticized with torrential rain and sudden floods on Monday, turning the streets into rivers, closing the underground, the drivers that extend and caused water rescue.
The Tri-State area was affected, with the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, declaring an emergency state, the first responders commanding local cars to rescue the people trapped in floods and generalized flight cancellations.
In New York City, Videos similar to Doomsday showed floods that reached the Metro platforms.
The Big Apple experienced a daily record of 2.64 inches, with 2.07 inches that fall in less than an hour. The rainy rate per Monday exceeded the capacity of the New York rainwater system, which is designed to withstand 1.75 inches per hour, which caused floods of the Metro.
Meanwhile, in New Jersey, floods were reported on Route 22 and Route 27, and residents were advised to remain inside.
In North Plainfield, New Jersey, a house exploded around 11:30 pm on Monday. The firefighters arrived at the house and found him wrapped in flames when the severe waters of the floods swept the neighborhood. However, the occupants were not at home, after having evacuated a higher land before the explosion, according to North Plainfield Chief William Eaton.
In Plainfield, a temporary refuge for displaced locals opened.
On the ground, the lifeguards worked 24 hours to rescue people from submerged vehicles.
“Quite scary. I’m lucky because I didn’t have my children with me,” said a woman today after a front loader construction vehicle picked up the drivers trapped and led them to higher land.
Violet Frederick said the police helped her a safe place before using her jeep for more bailout.
“Then van, ‘ok, take out everything you need from your car, we need to go to rescue people now,” he told NBC New York.
An sudden flood emergency was declared during the night for Petersburg, Virginia, where three to six inches of rain were filled in just a couple of hours.
An flood clock is in force for Central and Eastern Virginia, as well as in the Bajo Maryland, until midnight on Tuesday.
“Very strong rains in the last 24 hours have led to very saturated land, and will not take much more rain to cause additional sudden floods,” said the Wakefield National Meteorological Service Office on Tuesday early.
Meanwhile, in Plant City, Florida, east of Tampa, almost 10 inches of rain fell in three hours, exceeding the criteria of a 1,000 -year rain event.
On Tuesday, more floods are possible with 12 million people under flood watches this morning in the center of Texas, East Oklahoma, in Arkansas and parts of Virginia and North Carolina.
The different Everal regions run the risk of flooding, including the median of the Atlantic (Virginia to North Carolina), Florida Central, the mountainous country of Texas, which suffered mortal floods during the weekend of July 4, southern Arizona and the upper west medium.
In all these regions, the afternoon storms capable of producing rain rates of one or two inches or more per hour could cause sudden floods.
An flood is in force for the Rio Grande corridor, Edwards Plateau, Hill Country and the interstate 35 in Texas up to 1 PM CT on Tuesday, with a rain of one to three inches expected, with isolated amounts of up to six possible inches.
The Hill Country is still staggering from the floods of July 4 that killed 132 and left more than 100 missing people. Sudden floods can occur since rivers “are already working at higher levels,” warned the National Meteorological Service.
On Monday night, Maverick County, on the southwest border of Texas, near the border of Mexico, issued a mandatory evacuation order for burned and Normandy communities due to heavy rains and increased water levels.
“Now is the time to evacuate. I don’t wait,” the county wrote on Facebook.
Fires
To the west, almost 60,000 acres have burned in the fires of Sabio Blanco and Dragon Bravo near the Grand Canyon, forcing the closure of the northern edge of the Beloved National Park.
Dragon Bravo Fire began on July 4 near the north edge of the canyon. Days later, the Blanca Salvia fire lit 35 miles north, on the outskirts of the park, and since then it has quadrupled in size. Both were caused by lightning.
Until Tuesday morning, Dragon Bravo Fire has burned 8,750 acres and remains in a containment of 0%, while the white sage fire has burned 51,922 acres and is also a containment of 0%.
More than 70 structures in fires have been lost, and more than 500 people have been evacuated.
The historic Grand Canyon Lodge, a jewel in American history, was lost in the flames on Saturday. Built in 1928, it was the only accommodation inside the park in the North Rim and served as a well -known park’s milestone.
“It has been a difficult week for everyone. We had approximately 50 employees who were evacuated from North Rim this past weekend, and the loss is devastating. We lost many homes of our employees for the National Parks Service,” said Public Affairs officer Joelle Baird to NBC News.
