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Hurricane Ida鈥檚 death toll continued to rise on Sunday, with many in northeast United States holding out hope for people missing in the floodwaters, while nearly 600,000 customers in Louisiana still lacked power a week after the storm made landfall.
Ida slammed into Louisiana on August 29 as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 240 kilometers per hour. The latest death toll there rose to at least 13 people on Sunday.
The storm weakened as it moved north but still unleashed flash flooding on the East Coast that killed at least 50 more people, according to updated numbers on Sunday.
Ida鈥檚 record-breaking rainfall of 7.8 centimeters per hour on Wednesday, recorded in New York City鈥檚 Central Park, sent walls of water cascading through businesses, public transportation systems and 1,200 homes, causing more than US$50 million in damage, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said.
鈥淭he human toll was tremendous,鈥 said Hochul, recounting a trip to East Elmhurst in the New York City borough of Queens to assess the devastation.
鈥淥ne woman wept in my arms, an 89-year-old woman. She had nothing left after living in that home for over 40 years,鈥 Hochul said.
The governor previously secured an emergency disaster declaration from President Joe Biden and signed paperwork on Sunday to request related federal money to cover the costs of temporary housing as well as rebuilding homes, possibly in less flood-prone locations.
New York had 17 confirmed deaths, four in suburban Westchester County and the rest in New York City, where nearly all the victims were trapped in illegal basement apartments that are among the last remaining affordable options for low-income residents in the area, the governor鈥檚 spokesperson said.
In New Jersey, there were 27 confirmed storm deaths and four people still missing, said a spokesperson for Governor Phil Murphy.
Among the missing were two college students last seen in Passaic, New Jersey, on Wednesday as Ida鈥檚 historic deluge was reported to have swept them away in the raging Passaic River.
Twelve boats searched the river on Sunday as part of round-the-clock operations, and rescue teams were anticipating specialized high-resolution sonar to aid their search today, the Passaic fire department said.
A Mass was celebrated on Sunday at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, for Nidhi Rana, a first-year commuter student from Passaic who was last seen with her friend Ayush Rana, a Montclair State University student, as the water rushed around his car.
鈥淛oin me in keeping Nidhi and Ayush in your prayers for their safe return,鈥 Seton Hall President Joseph Nyre said in a letter to students.
Other storm deaths were reported in Connecticut with at least one dead, Pennsylvania with at least four dead and Maryland with at least one dead.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards increased the number of storm deaths in his Gulf Coast state to 13.
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