A flooded Main Street in Highland Falls, N.Y., on Monday. Kirsten Gillibrand, both of New York, about the flood damage and has been promised support to rebuild the affected infrastructure. The flooding in Cornwall, in Orange County, came as heavy rain drenched much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Sunday, prompting flash flood alerts in parts of New York. Hochul said she has been in touch with the White House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. A bus and cars are stuck in flood waters on Queens Boulevard in New York early on Thursday morning, Sept. She t weeted that “there’s significant damage to houses, businesses, and infrastructure” as a result of the severe weather. “These are unprecedented weather events that keep hitting us over and over again, so we must change our behavior as a planet, as a country, as a state and in our own homes,” she said.
She noted the flash floods came just nine months after the region got record snowfall and weeks after the state’s air quality reached dangerous levels because of Canadian wildfire smoke. Kathy Hochul today attributed yesterday’s deluge to "the ravages of climate change." NEW YORK Heavy thunderstorms caused a deluge of rain, flooding subway stations and roadways in New York City hours before Tropical Storm Elsa arrived Friday.
PICS OF NEW YORK FLOOD SERIES
Works from this series were represented in the acclaimed exhibition at the Metropolian Museum of Art, New York in autumn 2006, New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori, marking the first anniversary of the hurricane.Gov. As with all his work, Polidori has succeeded in producing much more than a series of documentary images. The discovery of an abandoned body in one house reinforced his struggle with the problem of making beautiful images from human disaster. Each room he entered seemed to Polidori to be like a womb and he thought of his photographs as the work of a psychological voyeur, mapping the lives of the absent people through their abandoned belongings. Slowly he began to learn the system of graffiti signs and codes applied to the exterior of the buildings by the rescue forces. The level of flood protection provided by ESCR is equal to the region’s worst-case anticipated 100-year storm in 2050, based on future climate change projections produced by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, an independent body composed of climate scientists that advises City policymakers on local resiliency and adaptation. Officers responded to a 911 call of a flooding condition in the.
The next day he began photographing and entering the abandoned houses, many of which were still water-logged or carried the 8 ft tide-mark of the floods. Heavy rain spawned extreme flooding in New York's Hudson Valley that killed at least one person and forced road closures as much of the rest of the Northeast U.S. Two people died after the floodwaters caused a partial building collapse in Queens, according to the New York Police Department. Arriving at night he found few remaining inhabitants amongst the devastated ruins of the city. Hurricane Henri kept on track to wreak havoc on New York early Sunday but early downpours had already sparked major flooding in the Big Apple by Saturday. In late September 2005, the photographer Robert Polidori travelled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.
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