Dramatic satellite imagery shows the catastrophic floods that Hurricane Ida left in New York and New Jersey when the tip of the storm hit the northeast.
The storm left at least 46 people dead in five states, including 25 in Garden State and at least 13 in Big Apple.
Record rainfall caused widespread flooding and damage in several communities on both sides of the Hudson River.
Before and after the photographs were captured of a Bethesda spring dammed in Central Park, the Deegan Expressway Highway became a river and several striking scenes from Jersey, including Somerville, Manville, South Bound Brook and New Brunswick, showing the cities submerged in muddy waters. .
Dozens of homes were also destroyed by tornadoes generated by the storm in New Jersey.
At least 20 homes on Mullica Hill were leveled by one of the powerful lathes.
Most of the victims in New Jersey were people who drowned after their vehicles were trapped by flooding, some dying in their submerged cars and others dragged after getting out into the fast-moving water.
In New York, a 2-year-old boy and his parents drowned in an underground Queens apartment when the rapidly rising waters caught them.
The hurricane also wiped out energy and shut down the subway system, causing the first instant flood emergency of the Big Apple, which left a trail of devastation in the northeast from Maryland to New York. .
