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"Ida" is still causing suffering and destruction: the effects of the hurricane have raised the death toll to 40 on the northeast coast of the United States.
The cause was heavy rain and heavy flooding in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Many people were surprised by the floods, and rescue workers were on constant duty, like here in Conshohocken, a suburb of Philadelphia.
Adam Zafiratos, resident:
»I woke up because people were knocking on my door.
I heard noise on the first floor and went downstairs, it was under water.
I opened the front door and the whole street was five feet under the water with all the cars in it.
Pretty crazy."
Sherly Saturnino, visitor:
“We stayed at the Residence Inn hotel when the water was rising much faster and higher than we'd ever thought. We were trapped in it. My son needs essential medication that we didn't have with us in the hotel last night. The fire brigade heroically brought them to us with a rope over torrential masses of water. We are very thankful."
Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from their homes between the river and the railway line in Conshohocken, and the main road to Philadelphia was closed. Hurricane Ida, the fifth strongest on record, swept over Louisiana over the weekend and then headed north. US President Joe Biden announced that the United States must adapt its infrastructure to climate change more quickly.