Stony Brook’s Harbor Highway collapses – NBC New York

A state of emergency has been declared on Lengthy Island within the wake of “catastrophic” flooding liable for destroying roads, damaging vehicles and displacing a whole lot from their houses in the course of the evening.

City and county officers are nonetheless assessing the total scope of the injury in Suffolk County, however early estimates are already within the tens of hundreds of thousands due to in a single day rainfall totals near 10 inches. Examine rain totals right here.

Preliminary studies counsel rainfall charges of as much as 3 inches an hour had been recorded within the space. A flood warning remained in impact for the county by way of Monday afternoon. Examine the most recent energetic alerts right here.

A few of the most dramatic injury was pinpointed to Stony Brook, the place intense flooding prompted the collapse of Harbor Highway round 3 a.m. Brookhaven City Supervisor Dan Panico documented a number of the destruction on social media. The “well-traveled” street, he stated, connects Brookhaven City to Smithtown.

“All the Mill Pond at Avalon emptied throughout the now collapsed roadway,” he posted to Fb.

A workforce of city and county officers joined Government Edward Romaine Monday morning, the place the Suffolk County lawmaker declared the state of emergency in a plea to acquire state and federal support cash to assist with restoration efforts.

STORM UPDATE

Suffolk County was considerably impacted by the remnants of Ernesto in a single day. I’ve spent the morning surveying injury and can formally signal an order declaring a State of Emergency shortly. Please keep tuned for additional updates. pic.twitter.com/CGJ0JMI8QA

— Suffolk County Government Edward Romaine (@ExecEdRomaine) August 19, 2024

Romaine described a widespread and devastating blow to the county. Numerous houses took on water, resulting in untold destruction of non-public property, he stated. At close by Stony Brook College, roughly 150 college students had been displaced and had been within the means of securing non permanent housing.

“I’m signing a declaration of emergency, which hopefully will get some support to our locals enterprise and householders,” Romaine instructed reporters.

Groups of inspectors and surveyors might be out all day evaluating the injury and assessing the scope of the devastation. They will be trying into studies of widespread injury, together with houses which have reportedly fallen into sinkholes.

“The north shore has been ravaged,” Panico stated on the press convention. “We’re grateful that there was no lack of life, that’s an important factor.”

Brookhaven City residents and enterprise house owners are inspired to hunt assist by calling 631-451-TOWN.

Early rainfall totals had been highest in locations like Miller Place and Stony Brook, with the latter seeing about 7 inches of rain in simply three hours.

Suffolk, Nassau counties

*Nationwide Climate Service, New York