Rescuers guide boats on High St as they bring people to safety after overnight thunderstorms flooded much of Westville, N.J. on Wednesday, June 20, 2019. (Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
JULY 24th 2019
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily
United States North-East Wrecked by Floods and Rains
The North-Eastern United States had recently suffered a battering of severe winds and pouring rains, which, on Tuesday, left thousands of it citizens without power. A flash flood transpired Southwards along with the storm, a record-breaking heatwave retreated and left chaos of variating severity in its wake.
Meteorologist David Roth of the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Centre said that New York’s eastern Long Island suburbs had been met with pouring rains reaching up to 10 cm that had left it drenched, while the widespread recent storm dumped as much as 20 cm of rainwaters on Port Arthur, Texas.
According to FlightAware.com, more than 300 airline flights were cancelled in the United States, with the vast majority of the affected airports primarily located throughout the New York area, as well as around North Carolina.
David Roth, noting the storm was likely to dry out by evening, said that “Today we are expecting the flash flood risk to shift to North Carolina, Virginia, anywhere in the Southeast as the front continues to shift southward.”
“It hits the pavement and it runs off. Asphalt is not known for absorbing water,” Roth said. He also added that flash floods swamped Long Island and other New York urban areas were drenched by the storm on late Monday and early Tuesday.
Thunderstorms were brought down along with cooling rain when the weekend heat wave that blanketed about a third of the U.S. population had finally come to a blistering end on Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service had also confirmed a rare tornado touched down in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod up further North in the States. Utilities were scrambling to restore electricity to hundreds of communities where torrential weather downed tree limbs, knocking out power.
In Michigan, somewhere over 600,000 customers were out due to the storm, and as well as this more than 200,000 lost power in New Jersey overnight. According to Utility DTE in Michigan, its been estimated that on Tuesday only more than 100,000 remained out, but that by the end of the day over 90% of all storm-related power outages would be fixed and brought back up to working order by the end of the day.
The situation was still under heavy assessment by New Jersey’s hardest hit utility, FirstEnergy, and did not have an approximated ‘return to service time’ set for all of its customers who had lost their power during the storm. A second successive weekend of blackouts was experienced in New York, after a power outage left more than 73,000 homes and businesses without power for almost three hours on July the 13th.
Meteorologist Bob Oravec of the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in Maryland said that some winds had even gusted up to 129 kph. “The good news is that the heat wave is definitely over,” Oravec added. “It’s cooled down.”
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily
