U.S. Sensitive Debby Floods in Canisteo, Steuben County, New York, and Northeastern Pennsylvania

Debby’s last day and night over the U.S. inundated parts of New York, Pennsylvania and New England with rain and flash flooding on Friday, prompting evacuations and rescues.

Several towns were ordered to evacuate and the county declared a state of emergency because of the flooding. The area has been hit by devastating flash floods in prior storms, including in 2021.

A creek overtopped a bridge in the hamlet of Woodhull. Area resident Stephanie Waters said parts of sheds, branches and uprooted trees were among the debris that slammed into the span.

John Anderson said he saw the floods overwhelm some vehicles in Canisteo in Steuben County, and nearby in Andover in Allegany County. “It’s been very fierce,” said Anderson, who was providing dispatches to The Wellsville Sun. He said people were carried away by the raging water with their belongings.

The Moss Vanwie Farm in Canisteo, New York, which was owned by theUrbans, lost three-fourths of its 1,200 acres, including about 400 acres of corn and 200 acres of soybeans.

One of the oldest in the county was flooded for the first time since Ann Farkas moved to Canisteo in 1976.

Steuben County managerJack Wheeler said that the storm was hitting some of the same areas as Tropical Storm Fred three years earlier and that a half-dozen swift water rescue teams had retrieved people trapped in vehicles and homes.

A National Guard helicopter with an aquatic rescue capability was dispatched to Tioga County in northeastern Pennsylvania due to severe flooding. Rescue locations, as well as boat-based rescues, were conducted at several different locations.

PHILADELPHIA, N.C., During the Second Debby Storm on Sunday, Hurricane Rick Dente and his Delayed Business Partner Chastity Bettis

“My understanding is the roadway is pretty much well gone,” Rossman said. “That’ll be a very costly replacement. And one of the main thoroughfares in the county.”

Even in drier areas, more than 35,000 homes and businesses in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont still had no electricity as of Sunday afternoon, according to the tracking website PowerOutage.us. Some 23,000 outages lingered in hard-hit Ohio, where Debby-related storms including tornadoes blew through the northeastern part of the state on Wednesday.

The previous storm had knocked out the garage and well in which Jaqi and her family lived, causing them to have no water. A 120-foot tree, along with fencing, was felled.

As the rain fell, Rick Dente, the owner of Dente’s Market, used bricks and plastic to protect his business. “There isn’t a whole lot else you can do,” he said.

PHILADELPHIA — The weather system previously known as Hurricane Debby was not quite done with parts of the U.S. Sunday as flood warnings remained in effect in North Carolina and thousands were without power in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

After hitting Florida as a hurricane Aug. 5, the storm spent nearly a week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives along the East Coast before moving into Canada on Saturday.

Authorities in Lumberton, N.C., said in a Facebook post Saturday that one person died after driving into floodwaters on a closed road and getting swept away. Officials didn’t identify the driver, but said that what they hoped would be a post-storm rescue turned into a recovery.

In New Bern, North Carolina, business was brisk at the Halftime Pub and Grub restaurant Sunday afternoon just after a flash flood warning was issued, said server Chastity Bettis.

“Right now, it’s thundering, sprinkling and pretty dark so I’d say it’s going to start raining hard here pretty soon,” she said. If you live here, you are used to hurricanes and the last week or two we have been getting it pretty rough.

In South Carolina, the National Weather Service’s Charleston office warned Sunday that as much as 3 to 4 inches of additional rainfall was possible in the afternoon and evening, and could lead to flash flooding. Showers and thunderstorms could develop across Charleston County down through Chatham County and inland, the office said.

The Ruin of Tuscarora Creek: Two Years After Power Outages, More Flooding, and a Family Farm in Upstate New York

“This is complete and total devastation,” she said by phone Sunday as fire department officials were bailing out the home’s flooded basement. We didn’t think this would happen.

Urban said the family, which has operated the farm about 37 years, hasn’t had a chance to take a full accounting of the damage but said all their 150 cows and 200 youngstock are safe and all farm equipment has been recovered.

Recovery efforts were still going on in upstate New York. Officials announced plans to distribute water bottles and clean-up kits to residents impacted by flash flooding on Sunday and Monday. The Red Cross also opened a shelter for flood victims at the Corning-Painted Post High School and planned to operate it until Monday.

“Twice in three years the Tuscarora Creek turned from a gentle stream into a raging beast,” county officials wrote in a post on the government’s Facebook page Sunday afternoon. It is just too much. The sun was still shining Saturday. Volunteers worked on breakfast. People from all four towns took a deep breath and rolled up their sleeves.

Source: Debby left thousands in the dark, and threats of more flooding

The Disaster Response Team of the County Sheriff’s Office: Sunday Morning Emergency Services for a Mission Search in the Area around a Missing Person

Ten teams of emergency service volunteers would survey the damage on Sunday morning in order to help with the search for a missing person.

“Please be kind to them, because these are volunteers … they work here in the 911 center, they’re fire, police, they’re EMS, these folks are dedicating their Sunday to help you out,” said County Commissioner Marc Rice.

Faith-based disaster relief organizations were also mobilizing to help assess damage and provide help, state Rep. Clint Owlett said. “That’s going to be a big deal.”

There is another potential tropical storm in the Atlantic. There is a chance that a tropical depression will form in the next couple of days and could make its way toward the Greater Antilles by the middle of the week.