New Jersey, flooding and deadliest storms
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Severe storms hammered parts of the tri-state area Monday afternoon into the late evening hours, flooding City subways, prompting dozens of water rescues and triggering a state of emergency in hard-hit parts of New Jersey.
After the July 14 storm flooded areas of New Jersey, the National Weather Service issued an alert for more extreme weather ahead.
The National Weather Service has issued flash flood watches for parts of 17 New Jersey counties on Monday to start a stormy week.
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The heat advisory includes parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, where two people died in flooding.
Forecasters say some thunderstorm cells have the potential to dump as much as 2 to 3 inches of rain in one hour, posing a risk of rapid flooding.
The weather service said there's a "marginal" risk of flooding in portions of Nassau and western Suffolk, but nothing what's expected to the west and north of LI.
Footage shows wooden slats from the home on the ground with other debris. The blast took place around the same time heavy rainfall hit the northeast.