Debby eventually leaves the US, but there are still power shortages and a chance of flooding…
Late on Thursday afternoon, Debby was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical depression, and on Friday, it became a post-tropical cyclone.
As Debby finally left the country on Saturday, the sun came out but the electricity remained off in over 100,000 homes and businesses spread over four states.
When the storm traveled up the East Coast, it caused damage to homes, killed people, and unleashed tornadoes for almost a week after making landfall in Florida as a hurricane.
Even when the skies cleared, a flood warning was in place for a limited area of northern New York until Saturday night due to rainfall as high as seven inches. Water was slowly receding, according to the National Weather Service, but several roadways were still waterlogged.
According to PowerOutage.us, about 170,000 people in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont were without electricity on Saturday afternoon. Some providers warned that it would take several days for service to be restored. Following Wednesday’s Debby-related storms that included tornadoes, over half of the outages occurred in Ohio’s northeastern region.
Debby’s last day over the U.S. before blowing into Canada inundated south-central New York and north-central Pennsylvania with rain Friday, prompting evacuations and rescues by helicopter. The post-tropical cyclone continued dropping rain on New England and southern Quebec, Canada, on Friday night though conditions improved Saturday morning as the system continued moving northeast.
Some of the worst flash flooding in New York on Friday happened in villages and hamlets in a largely rural area south of the Finger Lakes.
In Steuben County, which borders Pennsylvania, officials ordered the evacuation of the towns of Jasper, Woodhull and part of Addison, and said people were trapped as floodwaters made multiple roads impassable. The recovery effort was underway Saturday morning, as emergency workers cleared debris and helped residents pump flood water from their basements.
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