‘Emotions Very Raw’ After Cars And Homes Flooded Across New Jersey – CBS New York

LIVINGSTON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Someday after we first noticed indicators of Henri, the storm isn’t fairly completed with us but.

Tropical Despair Henri remains to be lingering over our space this morning, and the previous 24 hours introduced some vital injury.

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Heavy rains brought on flooding and damage to cars and homes in New Jersey, the place greater than 100 individuals needed to be rescued in a single location.

As CBS2’s Christina Fan reported, flashing emergency lights lit up darkish streets from all corners of the state, which was battered by 24 hours of steady rain.

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On the Backyard State Parkway, automobiles hydroplaned. In New Milford, basements flooded. In Helmetta, the mayor stated the city regarded like a bomb went off.

“Feelings very uncooked. Individuals will probably take care of this for a while,” Helmetta Mayor Chris Slavicek informed CBS2.

Greater than 100 individuals needed to be evacuated after heavy rains overloaded creeks, gushing into residential streets. Almost a day later, the households nonetheless haven’t been let again in to soak up the injury.

“RR Avenue is totally flooded nonetheless, and I don’t know what sort of form my home is in, my automobile might be underneath water. So I’m in fairly dangerous form proper now,” resident Laura Hettinger stated.

“By the point we left the home, the water was as much as the ceiling within the basement,” resident Sue Savage added.

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Because the floodwaters slowly receded Sunday evening, kicked up particles gave households of sense of the devastation that awaited them.

The rain additionally brought on a sinkhole to open up behind an condominium constructing off Predominant Avenue.

In Livingston, oversaturated bushes snapped like matches.

Neighbors Shelly Cohen and Jackie Chiu checked on one another, sharing the burden of cleansing up the mangled mess of branches that minimize between their two yards.

“I used to be not [home at the time]. Thankfully, my neighbor was and took care of the whole lot. Good to have good neighbors on nowadays,” stated Cohen.

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The previous trunk was so soaked a chunk broke off, taking down energy strains and touchdown on the Fellswood Drive houses.

“We referred to as the township already, and so they’re going to name PSE&G, as a result of there’s an influence line down, and in addition the cable,” Chiu stated.

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CBS2’s Christina Fan contributed to this report.