Rockland County, NY – There are many reports of flash flooding throughout Rockland after a storm swept through the county.
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“We’ve been hit pretty hard,” Rockland Fire and Emergency Services Coordinator Gordon Wren said about the downpour that started just before 11:30 a.m. today. “The ground being saturated makes matter worse. “We’re getting pounded.”
Fire departments and police throughout Rockland are responding to dozens of calls for reports of building flooding, vehicles trapped in rising water and rising water affecting electrical systems.
Orange and Rockland Utilities was reporting scattered power outages across the county. As of 12:30 p.m., O&R spokesman Mike Donovan said there were 125 outages, with 83 customers out in Dashew Drive in Suffern.
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Could someone in the Monsey/ Wes. Hills area please give updates? I have mishpacha there and am very worried. How bad is it?
Why don’t you call them? And aren’t you concerned about all of the good yidden in Rockland County? And what about all the good goyim? eh?
they are all ok
#1 why dont you give them a call?
Dear Worried, Please call your family and find out if everything’s ok. No need to get info from these viewers. It’s as simple as a phone call away.
Hey, Worried, pick up a phone and dial your mishpacha and find out for yourself. We’re not living in the dark ages and if electricity is out there are cell phones that should be working.
i was driving through the storm for about 45 min it is insane, the whole monsey is flooded, my car is making funny noises prob from all the massive puddles i drove through, in my life it hasnt rained this hard for this long.
I heard in some areas the sun is beginning to come out so thjat it is drying up a little.
chap down all the trees- build huge houses- when the towns engineers tells you that it will create drainage issues. laugh at him call him names. the joke is on YOU monsey is a major flood zone now….
wouldn’t it be nice if we felt along with him? Sometimes when we are nervous
we forget the options. Another option is to daven all of us for klall yisroel.
Lets not be so sarcastic as this time.
thanks
We will see much more of this, as the result of global warming.
I just drove home from work. Drove down 59 from NJ to Remsen. Roads are clear. It seems to be bad down by Vizhnitz area…..I noticed some areas that are muddy, means it was flooded but already dried.
Is that a women with a green top in the lead photo?
Is it permissible for men an women to be in the same water at the same time as long as the mixed swimming is fully clothed? 🙂
I was by New City. The flooding there was terrible. Cars were covered to the windshields. Main street was closed. Shoprite parking lot was totally flooded. Looked like a flash flood.
The flooding was from the huge amounts of water that fell so quickly, not because there was too much construction. If that were the case the floods would not have dissipated so quickly.
The Vishnitz area with the most flooding also has the worst problems with runoff and sewers. They have paved over large areas, cut down trees and totally destroyed the local ecology with seemingly little concern for the consequences. Even if they do not believe in the mitzvah of tikun olam, they should be concerned about their yinglach running around in playgrounds filled with sewage overflow But I guess they really don’t care about such mundane public health issues.
Thanks to all who provided updates. As a matter of fact, I did call. The problem was, my cousins moved there less than half a year ago, and I didn’t have their number. And when I saw the pictures on VIN,
I panicked. So I just wanted some quick reassurance that it wasn’t a killer storm.
As far as the comment from #4 , you have managed to offend many non-Jewish readers with your insensitive remarks. Because I was specifically worried about a cousin, you accuse me of not caring about all of Hashem’s creatures?!? How insane is that?
Thanks, too, to #16 – “caring” – for feeling along with me. You are a real neshoma.
havei metalmidim shel aharon ohev shalom verodef sholom.why all the cynicism in the face of distress and monetary loss?
i am not chasidish nor i agree with many things that go on in that environment or for that matter other groups (MO or the yeshiva world) that being said its obvious that there are some posters here who have real issues in the area of sinas chinam (I’m sure those of you think you’re feelings are justified) just keep them to yourself the world is in bad enough shape already.
as a side this talk of sewers overflowing is ridiculous there are TWO systems one for sewage one for drainage.get your facts straight
I drove thru this in the middle of the storm, it was the last day of school and I had to go pick up my child. Rita ave was a lake, so was Union, Jill and Kearsing. It was horrible leverywhere, they should have cancelled school. I could not get anywhere until I finally drove through an ocean. I have never seen anything this bad in my life and it’s not even hurricane season, it was truly frightening. The pictures only tell half the story, took me an hour to stop shaking..really not a joke.