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By Brooklyn White ·September 2, 2021 Published · September 2, 2021 Updated
On September 1, video footage of intense flooding in New York began to make rounds. Cars floated in the streets, one third rail caught fire within a subway station, water poured into apartments. The disaster that hit Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey is the remnants of Hurricane Ida, the Category 4 tropical storm that ripped through southern Louisiana earlier this week.
Among those lost were a 2-year-old
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