Several floods were recorded in New York before the approach of storm Elsa

Several subway stations were flooded and major roads were closed in New York on Thursday, where the arrival of storm Elsa threatened new flooding on Friday.

Between 5 and 10 cm of water fell during a series of storms over New York and its region Thursday afternoon, the NWS Weather Service said, “causing flooding in places.”

Metro users posted videos of some flooded stations on Twitter. In one, people were seen in waist-deep water, trying to cross a dark pool to reach the platforms.

“Lines 1 and A recorded (..) a lot of flooding in the stations”, Sarah Feinberg, acting head of the MTA, New York’s public transport authority, acknowledged Thursday evening at a press conference.

Some roads, notably in the Bronx, have been temporarily closed, causing traffic problems after work.

The NWS has warned of possible new flooding until Friday morning, with heavy rains expected to arrive in the northeastern United States driven by Storm Elsa, which has already passed through the Caribbean and Florida.

Elsa is located 200 km west-southwest of Norfolk, Va. And about 485 km from New Jersey City, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its bulletin.

The system is moving rapidly in a northeast direction at a travel speed of 33 kilometers per hour.

A wide swath of the US east coast from the South Santee River in South Carolina to Sandy Hook in New Jersey is watched by Elsa, whose tropical storm force winds extend to about 260 kilometers per hour from its center.

Elsa made landfall as a storm Wednesday in Taylor County on the northwest coast of Florida and continued into eastern Georgia late in the day where tornadoes were reported and rain is still expected on Friday.

According to the Jacksonville Fire Department in northeast Florida, one person died on a road when a tree uprooted by winds associated with the storm fell on his vehicle.

At Submarine Kings Bay Naval Base in southeast Georgia, a tornado was recorded that left at least a dozen people injured, some of whom had to be transferred to medical centers but none seriously, such as the Base spokesperson Scott Bassett told NBC. New.

(With information from AFP)

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