LATEST: Death toll rises to 49 as the East Coast continues to clean up after the remnants of Ida unleashed destructive tornadoes and record rain and floods.
A tornado that touched down in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, was rated an EF3 with 150 mph winds, according to the National Weather Service. The twister, which destroyed at least nine homes, is the strongest to strike New Jersey since 1990. Most tornadoes associated with tropical systems are weaker than EF2.
“We did not know that between 8:50 and 9:50 p.m. last night, that the heavens would literally open up and bring Niagara Falls level of water to the streets of New York,” said Hochul, a Democrat whoDe Blasio, also a Democrat, said he’d gotten a forecast Wednesday of 3 to 6 inches of rain for the day. The city’s Central Park ended up getting 3.15 inches in just one hour, surpassing the previous one-hour high of 1.94 inches during Tropical Storm Henri less than two weeks earlier.
The weather and flooding brought New York transit to a near standstill, with service suspended or severely limited across the subway system.
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