Ida’s high and mighty rising tides
Dramatic satellite images show the catastrophic flooding Hurricane Ida left in its wake in New York and New Jersey, when the storm’s tailend battered the Northeast.
The superstorm left at least 46 people dead across five states, including 25 in the Garden State and at least 13 in the Big Apple.
The record-breaking rainfall caused widespread flooding and damage in multiple communities on both sides of the Hudson River.
Before-and-after photos captured shocking scenes from Jersey, including Manville and Bridgewater, showing the towns submerged in muddy water.
In the five boroughs, floodwaters reached the outer lip of Bethesda Fountain in Central Park and in The Bronx the Major Deegan Expressway had river-like rushing currents.
Dozens of New Jersey homes also were destroyed by tornadoes spawned by the storm.
At least 20 homes in Mullica Hill were leveled by one of the powerful twisters.
A majority of the victims in New Jersey were people who drowned after their vehicles were caught in flash floods, some dying in their submerged cars and others getting swept away after exiting into fast-moving water.
In New York, a 2-year-old boy and his parents drowned in a basement apartment in Queens when the rapidly rising floodwaters trapped them.
The hurricane also knocked out power and brought the subway to a standstill — and prompted the first-ever flashflood emergency for the city as it left a trail of devastation up the Northeast from Maryland to New York.