Video footage from Reading, Pennsylvania, shows a car being swept away in rushing floodwaters after torrential downpours in the US Northeast
More than 13 million Americans were under flood watches and warnings from Eastern New York state to Boston and Western Maine to the northeast, the National Weather Service said in its forecast Monday, after storms that began over the weekend inundated rivers and streams.
Amtrak suspended passenger train service between the state capital Albany and New York City after flooding damaged tracks. Amtrak shares some of that route's track with the Metro-North commuter railroad into New York, which suspended some service on that line and another. "Widespread flash flooding has occurred throughout the day, and now we're seeing rivers are rising rapidly, and we're expecting them to crest overnight tonight into tomorrow morning," said Peter Banacos, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Burlington, Vermont.Debris from overnight flooding along Cedar Pond Brook is pictured in Stony Point, New York, U.S., July 10, 2023.
"Her fiancé literally saw her swept away," New York Governor Kathy Hochul told a press conference in the town of Highland Falls.
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