The Perfect Storm Hurricane Ida further exposes Westchester's vulnerabilities to climate change.

Less than two weeks after Tropical Storm Henri made landfall, the Northeast was walloped with record rainfall — this time from Hurricane Ida — which caused flash flooding throughout Westchester County, inundated its drainage and infrastructure, and led to five casualties.

As the torrential rain began on Sept. 1, Westchester resident and single mother Chelsea Chapman was on the second floor of her house where one of her four daughters was trying on clothes and doing a fashion show. When the two went downstairs to get something, they heard an alarm going off in the basement.

There, they saw that water was on the floor. Initially, Chapman thought it wasn’t so bad, and if the basement got water damage, it would cost a couple thousand dollars to repair. But the water kept coming.

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