Maryland boy dies after being trapped in storm drain as rains drench east coast | US news

A 13 -year -old boy died after being trapped in a Maryland temporal drain during strong precipitation and floods on the East Coast, officials said.

The children played in the rain Thursday in a common area between the apartment buildings in Mount Aly, a city of around 10,000 people at around 30 miles (48 km) west of Baltimore, but the flood waters rushed and the boy was swept away in the pipe, according to a spokesperson for Mount Airy Fire Company, Doug Alexander.

People tried to save the boy, but the water pressure was too strong and continued to push him further into the pipe, he said. After the slowdown in the rain, they were able to release it, but it was too late, said Alexander.

More storms could provide flash and urban floods in the northern mid-Atlantic region and southern New England until Friday evening, the National Weather Service (NWS) warned.

Parties of the Baltimore region received 2.5 to 4 inches (6-10 cm) of rain Thursday, according to the NWS, but the isolated areas received more, including 5 inches (almost 13 cm) at Mount Aly and 6 inches in Joppatowne northeast of Baltimore, where people were saved from flooded cars.

Some regions of New York and New Jersey have seen 3 inches) or more rain and part of Central Long Island reported more than 4 inches, according to the NWS.

Friday morning, the suburban metro and railways in the New York region worked in normal schedules after certain sections were flooded by flood waters. The City Ministry of Transport also indicated that the roads and highways that had been closed due to the high waters on Thursday had been reopened.

Friday morning, a few dozen flights were delayed or canceled in the main airports in the New York, Boston and Washington regions, but most of them operated on time, according to the Flightaware follow -up service.

Power remained thousands of houses and businesses along the east coast on Friday morning, including nearly 5,000 in New York, 3,800 in Virginia, 2,500 in Maryland and 2,500 in Pennsylvania, according to Poweroute.us.

Amtrak’s trains between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware, were arrested Thursday evening due to the high water on the tracks, but Amtrak announced a few hours later that the service had been restored and that the water retired from the railway.

The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, and other local officials begged people to stay out of the roads and urged residents in apartments in the basement to move to higher places while the rain was to fall on Friday afternoon.

In New York, sudden floods briefly closed major road sections and flooded stations in the metropolitan region as the evening rush hour approaches.

The commuters captured a water video punching a train on a platform of the large Central Terminal in Manhattan and the layout of water on a city bus when it was crossing a flooded Brooklyn street.

Long Island suburban runners were evacuated by firefighters as flood waters increased. Other suburban railway lines in Long Island and New Jersey have been suspended or seriously delayed.

Traffic cameras and social networks on a highway in the New York Queens’ district showed motorists at one point on the roofs of blocked vehicles and a tractor semi-trailer almost entirely overwhelmed in the water. Police said they fired cars carrying two people from the flooded section before the waters withdraw and traffic resumes slowly.

The NWS warned that floods were possible in small streams and streams and along the highways, streets, sub-bodors and places with poor drainage. Some areas could also see gusts of wind and a hail.