Officials searching for two Indian-origin men missing in storm, floods caused by Hurricane Ida – Times of India

New York: Officials in New Jersey are searching for two missing Indian-origin people with the help of drones and boats.
Hurricane Ida, which made landfall on August 29 port fourchon, Louisiana, is the second most destructive hurricane to hit the southeastern state on record, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
A report in northjersey.com said that Nidhi Rana (18) and Aayush Rana (21) were “last seen on Wednesday evening when Aayush’s car got stuck in flood water”. The search for the pair continued on Sunday as Passack firefighters continued their search along Passack. River for both.
“We are currently operating with two boats on the water and three drones operated by the state police,” said Passaic Fire Chief Pat trentacoast The report was quoted as saying.
The report said that on Friday, “rescuers searched the culvert where McDonald’s Brook leads to the Passic River and where witnesses said the pair were swept into a waterway under the city.”
A total of five boats from the Sheriff’s Department, Passack, Clifton, Hawthorne and Ringwood Departments are being used to scour the area and search for the youth. “Rescue workers are also focusing on the banks and the area where the culvert empties into the river,” Trentakost said.
Four people of Indian origin were drowned in the severe floods that hit New York and New Jersey after Hurricane Ida.
a report in patch.com Dhanush Reddy, 31, of Edison, died last week after flowing into a 36-inch storm sewer pipe in South Plainfield, the US said.
The report said South Plainfield Police, Middlesex County Water Rescue Team and Piscataway Police arrived at the scene, where police were assisting motorists in the area of ​​Headley and Stelton Roads, and heard cries for help. Officials said two people were swept away in the pipe, which runs from South Plainfield to Piscataway.
While one person was rescued, the other could not be traced and officials found Reddy’s body in a wooded area a few miles away a day after he drowned.
“Many of the flood victims lived in basement apartments, some of which were illegally carved underground dwellings from larger houses and may have lacked the emergency evacuation required for legitimate apartments. Comparatively low-cost living spaces “They are the refuge of thousands of the city’s poor, even known as firetraps,” said a report in The New York Times.
“Overnight, basements became water traps,” it added.
NS NYT The report said the Ramskrits, a family of four, were at their Queens home when the floodwaters reached their ankles. As they tried to retrieve their belongings, “they heard a collapse and a gust of water pushed them through the pitch-black apartment as the walls collapsed in.”
After holding the hand of wife Tara, the flood washed away the elderly Dameshwar Ramskrits across the house. “I tried to hold my wife, and she was trying to hold me,” he said Thursday, the NYT said. “But the water pushed me away and I could no longer feel his hand.”
ramskrete And their 22-year-old son named Nick both drowned.
At 9:30 on Wednesday night, Mingma Sherpa, who lived in a basement apartment in Queens with her husband and baby son, called her upstairs neighbor for help.
Malti Kanche, 46, a software designer who emigrated from India, was washed away in floodwaters in Bridgewater New Jersey after she and her 15-year-old daughter stuck to a tree leaving their car stuck in floodwaters. Then the tree gave way, and “the water carried it,” said a report in the NYT, referring to Kanche.
A Nepalese family living in a basement apartment in Queens also died as storm water flooded their apartment, leaving them trapped inside.
Mingma Sherpa called her upstairs neighbor Choi Sled for help, saying, “The water is coming now.”
“Get out! Go to the third floor!” The sled had told the Sherpa.
The NYT report said the family did not come up. The sledge called them again and in a brief call, the Sherpa told him “water is coming from the window.” Sherpa, her husband, Lobsang Lama and their little boy Aang were all drowned in the storm.
The NYT said the storm killed at least 43 people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

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