At New York University's Langone Medical Center — where generators were served by underground and vaulted fuel oil tanks required by code to be on the lowest level of the building — floodwater cut off backup electricity and made basic caregiving impossible.
Floodwaters cut off Wildwood.
Floodwaters set off by heavy rain in northern India have killed at least 17 people, washed away thousands of homes and forced some two million people to evacuate in a 24-hour period, officials said Thursday.
It is hoped this work will help carry off floodwater more effectively in the future.
Prime Minister David Cameron later announced rivers in Somerset would be dredged once all floodwater had drained off the Levels and the river banks were safe.
Environment Agency workers have been busy dredging the Parrett to try to make floodwater flow off the low-lying moors more efficiently.
The capital's high flood walls, built at the turn of the last century, held off the floodwater in the city centre, though one barrier gave way in a northern suburb.
Phil Martin, the area manager for Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue, said two vehicles have been stationed either side of Muchelney to allow them to get to properties cut off by floodwater within 10 minutes.
They were attending an outdoor education program at the Cal-Wood Education Center in Jamestown when the town was cut off by floodwaters.
But many of the missing are from the nearby township of Grantham, where at least 50 people sought refuge in a primary school cut off by floodwaters.
