At least 8 deaths as Hurricane Ida's remnants hit Northeast
Source: AP
By DAVID PORTER and MARK SCOLFORO
NEW YORK (AP) — At least eight deaths in were reported in New York City and New Jersey as relentless rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida sent the New York City area into a state of emergency early Thursday and the storm carried into New England with threats of more tornadoes.
Police in New York City reported seven deaths, including a 50-year-old man, a 48-year-old woman and a 2-year-old boy who were found unconscious and unresponsive late Wednesday inside a home. They were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. One death was reported in New Jersey.
New York’s FDR Drive, a major artery on the east side of Manhattan, and the Bronx River Parkway were under water by late Wednesday evening. Subway stations and tracks became so flooded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suspended all service. Videos posted online showed subway riders standing on seats in cars filled with water.
Other videos showed vehicles submerged up to their windows on major roadways in and around the city and garbage bobbing down the streets.
Pedestrians take cover near Columbus Circle in New York Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida remained powerful while moving along the Eastern seaboard. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/environment-and-nature-hurricanes-60327279197e14b9d17632ea0818f51c
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for the past 30+ years. Maybe they are correct about Covid too. Go figure. 
The local NWS in Mt. Holly is going to be investigating at least 7 suspected ones.
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Stunning footage of a large #tornado from New Jersey this evening!
Dangerous tornadoes were spotted in multiple locations between Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
#DEwx #PAwx #NJwx
9:00 PM · Sep 1, 2021
And I think this one that I saw last evening was the most dramatic - going across the Burlington-Bristol bridge.
(Central Jersey)
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MUST SEE 👀
A camera captured a #tornado heading directly for the Burlington Bristol Bridge in New Jersey Wednesday evening.
8:22 PM · Sep 1, 2021
The one shown in the 2nd tweet video is the same one in that AP video in the OP by the bridge. As a note, the Burlington-Bristol bridge is a draw bridge or actually a "lift bridge" (not sure of the term). The central portion over the river can lift up to allow the taller ships/barges to pass underneath.
I was actually tracking those and a suspected one about 5 miles from where I live.
We also have catastrophic flooding here in the area and in parts of the downtown by the Schuylkill river.
has confirmed 1-EF0, 2-EF1s and an EF2 tornado (that EF2 being about about 5 - 7 miles from where I live).
They are still evaluating the biggy that hit the Mullica Hill, NJ area, but I expect it might end up being an EF3 (which is very rare around here) or possibly (at least according to one climatologist who is a professor at a local college I think in NJ), Jersey's first EF4.
so I post about weather stuff on a different forum and our little regional group were tracking these. 
We had had a few tornadoes here in Philly in the city, but not frequently. I remember 2 - one that was literally a couple miles from me back in the early '90s and the other that happened in the late '80s on a weekend not far from where I worked where one of my co-workers was working in the building that weekend and it was hot (but they had the building air AC off at the time).... so he opened the windows, and sometime during the day, a tornado or its funnel, passed by there and he said the wind along with the pressure differential, blew all the papers off the desks in the room.
I did find a cool site years ago that has the tornado stats (and is updated) and the entry for Philly (metro from 1950 to date) is here - http://www.stormfax.com/patorn.htm#Philadelphia
The NWS has records for earlier ones.
and I get it too. 
In fact, I was looking for some more videos on the tornadoes in my area yesterday and stumbled upon someone's tweet of a video of a thunderstorm at night that had cloud-to-cloud lightning, but recorded as an experiment to try out the slow-motion feature on her cell phone. My iPhone can do that.
It turned out pretty cool (and is a "live" illustration of "talking clouds" )! 
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I was playing around with the slow-mo on my phone tonight & just happened to capture this. So crazy!!!
12:05 AM · Sep 2, 2021 from Vicksburg, MS
That would make some great art!
And as a side note, Mt. Holly NWS just confirmed the scale for 2 more tornadoes - the one in Mullica Hill as a (preliminary) EF3 and one in Bucks County, PA as an EF1. There's just one left for them to label (one in Chester County PA).
Now THAT ("sub" ) is New YAWK. 
There are some who like cheesesteak hoagies but that's not my preference.
and a fatality caused by a tree that fell into a home. The NWS confirmed 7 tornadoes in the metro area - one EF0, three EF1s, one EF2 (that was right near where I live) and one EF3.
One of the expressways that I used to use to commute to work in the mornings has become a canal (apparently a pump failed for it). The water in the below is a flooded 1-676 Vine Street expressway that goes across the city "from river to river" (Schuylkill to the Delaware). I.e., THIS is NOT a "canal".
The people who live right near that and by the river in the Franklintown and Logan Square neighborhoods - that are literally right near the Phila. Art Museum, have been flooded out. There are several tower apartment buildings right there (I think 4 of them) that had their basements (with the electrical circuits for the buildings) flooded and all had to be evacuated.
And the wild thing is - the huge "Made in America" concert is supposed to happen right there in that area this weekend. I haven't heard a peep other than a few "what to do this weekend" older announcements.
The main stage is being constructed literally a block or two from that river flooding. I annotated a map of the area from an earlier "Made in America" map done 4 years ago that showed the street closures for the event back then. Except for the circle showing where the "main stage" is (there are other smaller stages usually constructed along the Parkway) the yellow polygon areas were or STILL ARE flooded -
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This is what they have been constructing at the moment -
The Art Museum is actually up on a hill and its location literally used to be the city's huge drinking water reservoir before they re-did the water distribution down there, eventually filled it in, and built the museum at that spot, where the waterworks are at the side and rear of the entrance along the river -
(early 1900s)
(now)
area for a number of years as a child and also as an adult...it is heartbreaking.
Stay safe!
