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those maps reflecting the impact of climate change? well, they re probably closer than they ever have been, but the point is you can have a storm like ida, and in cranford we had two flood emergencies. we had the river flooding, which the flood maps would be involved with. but we had that floosh flooding, which impacted a huge swath of our town, 90% of our town was impassable. and that had nothing to do with the river. it had to do with the flash floods. so we have people who didn t typically flood, and i m looking at pictures, and this continues to break my heart. people who aren t usually affected, they were. if i can just tell you a quick story, when i listened to that little boy before, i was at the evacuation center overnight and they brought this family in. and they had a 5-year-old son,
it s unacceptable. maybe the news was forecasting rain. and it caught them by surprise. what needs to be done to better communicate with residents? cranford was dealing with two flood emergencies. one the flash flood, that was unprecedented, and the second flooding from the river. so we were prepared, our police department was prepared putting out notices, regularly, about every half an hour. in anticipation of what we expected to get. so there was obviously much more. there was the amount of rain that fell in such a short period of time, six hours, was impossible to deal with. so we have been very assertive
i believe this may be the president. i will just take this and make sure. i think i missed that. the answer is unequivocally yes. i assume you all would agree. state and federal. but there is only we will put state resources into this as we have done and will continue to do but the game changer here is the feds and the work that we re doing with federal dollars. we talked to some victims in the neighborhood. they said the alert they got from the weather service came quick enough to get to their basement and saved their lives. flood emergencies for up north. yet a lot of people were trapped in their cars and died in their cars. don t know how many water rescues there were. is there a way to improve to get people off these roads when these flash flood emergencies
to spawn tornados. that is not unusual. but in places such as new jersey, you see two tornadoes per year and you ve seen one in the last few hours and 11 so far in 2021. and incredible year. and upwards of 50 million americans even at it hour under flood alerts. we ve had flood emergencies which are the rarest of weather alerts. and those are only reserved for when you have life threatening flooding and water rescues and catastrophic flooding taking place. that is the verbiage that the weather service uses. they had never issued it for new york city that happened in the last few hours. and when you see rainfall amounts in just a matter of three to five hours, that is as impressive as it gets. newark sees its wettest day in recorded history. i checked in with the airport there, how about 300 plus preli. and newark s liberty airport,
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