Hurricane Ida kills at least 41 across Northeast - including nine in NYC: 'Historic weather event' paralyzes tri-state area as flash floods kill family of three in basement and turn streets to rivers

• At least 41 people are dead across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland because of Ida
• The hurricane took the Northeast by surprise on Wednesday, unleashing a month's worth of rain in one night
• In New York City, 12 people died including 11 who drowned in their basement apartments which flooded
• In New Jersey, tornadoes ripped homes from the ground and washed cars off the road, killing at least 23
• The chaos continued into Thursday morning with Amtrak trains, NYC subways and United flights halted
• Overnight, people who were on Metro North trains got stuck for 10 hours in dark carriages with no food  
• President Biden addressed the devastation in a speech where he blamed it on climate change 
• In NYC, residents are furious they didn't get more warning about the catastrophic flooding 
• Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency nearly two hours after the first bodies were found in homes
• Now, an enormous clean-up operation is underway across the Northeast states   

By JENNIFER SMITH and ADAM SCHRADER and ALASTAIR TALBOT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM-1 September 2021 

At least 41 people have been killed in the Northeast, including a family of three with a two-year-old boy who drowned in a New York City basement, after the tail-end of Hurricane Ida crept up on the tri-state area on Wednesday night bringing a month's worth of rain in less than a day, flooding homes while people slept and tearing up parts of New Jersey with tornadoes.

Eleven people were killed as water rushed into basement apartments in Brooklyn and Queens and people all over the city became stranded in flooded subway stations. MTA bus drivers were deployed to the stations to pick people up who were stranded and get them to safety.

The entire subway system was suspended and remains largely out of use on Thursday morning. AMTRAK has canceled services between Boston and Philadelphia and all of United Airlines' flights out of Newark were suspended on Thursday morning - some 300.   

Eleven of the NYC victims died in flooded basement homes. One person was found in the backseat of a car on Thursday morning, at around 10am. They were in the backseat of the vehicle and had drifted from the Grand Central Parkway, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced on Thursday.  A tenth man died in a vehicle in upstate New York. 

The total death toll in New York City rose to 12 on Thursday night. 

Mingma Sherpa, 48, Ang Lama, 50, and their son two-year-old son, also called Ang (full name Lobsang) drowned in their home in Woodside, Queens. The New York City victims also include Roberto Bravo, 66; Phamatee Ramskriet, 43 and Khrishah Ramskriet, 22, 86-year-old Yue Lian Chen and Darlene Hsu, 48.

In total, 23 people died in New Jersey - nine were swept away in cars that became submerged in the water and five died in an apartment complex in Elizabeth. Three people from one family - a 72-year-old woman, her 71-year-old husband and their 38-year-old son - died along with their 33-year-old female neighbor in the Oakwood Plaza Apartments in New Jersey.

Three also died in the New York suburb of Westchester. A 19-year-old man died in Maryland when the Rock Creek River burst its banks and flooded nearby homes. Three people died in Pennsylvania.   

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Austin Ferdock drinks a beer while floating in floodwater that continues to rise over the submerged Vine Street Expressway, Interstate 676, following a huge storm caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 2, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Residents canoe through floodwater in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Manville, NJ, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021

Roads are covered in floodwaters caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida which brought drenching rain, flash floods and tornadoes to parts of the northeast in New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S., September 2, 2021

Train tracks are flooded in the Bronx following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 2, 2021 in New York City. Multiple fatalities have been reported in the region after the storm passed through, causing massive flooding and a widespread disruption of subway service

HOBOKEN, NJ - SEPTEMBER 2: A man falls off his bike into a flooded street the morning after the remnants of Hurricane Ida drenched the New York City and New Jersey area on September 2, 2021 in Hoboken, New Jersey

Roads are covered in floodwaters caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida which brought drenching rain, flash floods and tornadoes to parts of the northeast in New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S., September 2, 2021

Multiple homes are destroyed after a Tornado hit Mullica Hill, New Jersey, yesterday. September 02 2021. The neighborhood is just south of Philadelphia, near the Pennsylvania/New Jersey border

Multiple homes are destroyed after a Tornado hit Mullica Hill, New Jersey, yesterday. September 02 2021

Homes damaged from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on Josephine Lane in Mullica Hill, New Jersey 

Parked cars sit in flood waters behind an apartment building, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, Mamaroneck, N.Y. A stunned U.S. East Coast woke up Thursday to a rising death toll

An abandon car sits in standing flood waters on a residential street, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, Mamaroneck, New York

Roads in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, are covered in floodwaters caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida which brought drenching rain, flash floods and tornadoes to parts of the Northeast

A city underwater: 145th Street station on Wednesday night after Hurricane Ida brought nearly 6 inches of rain to New York City - 3.5inches in an hour - the single highest rainfall ever recorded. Nine people in the city died 

Flash flood hits the stairs at 145th Street station in Manhattan

 

The scenes on the subway last night which remained open until 11pm - after bodies had been found in Brooklyn and Queens 

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