NYC Confronts New Normal for Weather After Flooding From Ida
- Crews work to restore power, transportation in storm’s wake
- Ex-hurricane killed more in Northeast than on Gulf Coast
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As Ida’s deadly waters receded and emergency crews raced to return power and transportation services, stunned residents of New York, New Jersey and other parts of the Northeast faced up to their vulnerability to new-weather storms.
By midday Friday, the region was digging out and returning to normal following the storm that killed at least 41 people locally. The remnants of a hurricane that first hammered distant New Orleans had temporarily paralyzed the nation’s largest and wealthiest city, halted its lifeblood transit system and conjured a future constrained by recurrent disasters.