Multiple motorists stranded on flooded roadways in New York and New Jersey had to be rescued Tuesday night as some parts of the region got six inches of rain.
in New York and New Jersey had to be rescued from their submerged vehicles Tuesday night as some parts of the region got six inches of rain in about three hours, according to officials."Between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. is when it was really the worst. That's rush hour," Goodman said of Tuesday night's storm.
Six people were rescued from their vehicles when they got stuck in flood waters on the Cross Island Expressway in New York City, emergency management officials said. Elsewhere in the region, flooding on the Palisades Parkway in the Bergen County, New Jersey, city of Englewood Cliffs, caused commuter chaos, officials said. The Teterboro Airport in Bergen County recorded nearly four inches of rain Tuesday night, according to the NWS.
"Multiple people stuck, multiple rescues being made by Hackensack fire members," the Hackensack Fire Department said in the post. "If you're in an area and cannot go any further, park your car somewhere dry and wait out the storm.... Turn around, don't drown."The storm system soaked the Northeast after moving in from the eastern Great Lakes, prompting 163 damaging storm reports, including numerous downed trees and flash flooding, from Michigan to New York.
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