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Janice Valle says the water lifted her off her feet, pushing her towards the ceiling with just inches left to breathe.
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Janice Valle says the water lifted her off her feet, pushing her towards the ceiling with just inches left to breathe.
Nidhi Rana, who goes to Seton Hall, was with Ayush Rana, a student at Montclair State, when the storm hit Wednesday night.
Satellite images show the devastating flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
More than 3 feet of water had to pumped out of the building that houses Cresskill's middle and high schools. As a result, about a thousand students will have to start the year remotely.
In the hours after Ida, many are scrambling to figure out what they lost and what exactly is covered under their insurance policies.
The storm is now blamed for at least 25 deaths in the Garden State, and six other people are still missing.
Among those killed in New York City was a family of three in Woodside, Queens, including a 2-year-old boy.
Flames broke out just before 1 a.m. at a two-story home on Center Street, just off Interstate 78.
Block by block, soaked pieces of roofing and wood lined residential roads that took on up to eight feet of water from the nearby Peters Brook, where a car remained submerged.
Ida's historic rainfall left a lot of commuters stranded Wednesday night throughout the Tri-State Area.
The advisory was issued after heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ida caused damage to the aqueduct in Cedar Grove Township.
For some, it's not their first time dealing with flooding, but that didn't make it any easier.
Emergency response teams were out since the morning rescuing people from their homes and cars. Police said more than 200 people needed help.
As the skies clear and the water recedes Thursday, the storm is blamed for at least one death in the Garden State.
When the Elizabeth River crested it sent water about eight to 10 feet high, trapping some people in their ground-floor apartments with nowhere to go.
The explosion leveled the house on River Road and at least three other homes were damaged.
Gov. Murphy toured the damage left behind by a tornado that ripped through Mullica Hill Wednesday as remnants of Ida tore through the region.
Just after 10 p.m. Wednesday, Gov. Phil Murphy announced he was declaring a state of emergency in response to the storm.
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Keith was a rising sophomore at Ocean County College with many aspirations, including studying criminal justice and psychology.
A few ribbons tied to trees on the school grounds turned into a passion project for the whole area.
More than 100 officers from about 50 departments from the local, county, state and federal level helped celebrate these two new troopers.
In total, about seven million Americans could lose their benefits after Saturday.
Witnesses said the conditions were initially clear and sunny, leaving no signs that a dangerous storm was moving in. And it left them no time to take cover.
Ida's powerful winds and thrashing rain plunged more than a million people into the dark, including all of New Orleans.
