'When I opened the door, the water rushed in.' Storm evacuees in Manville, N.J., along the rain-swollen Raritan River, tell the same story: an urgent late-night knock on the door, a wall of water crashing into their apartments, then being rescued by boat.
Richie Leonardis, a 60-year-old who has had one leg amputated and uses a wheelchair, said an air raid siren went off around 4 a.m. Thursday. Within minutes, police knocked on his door urging him to evacuate.
But before long, the Quick Check started to flood. Store workers told everyone to leave, as they, too, were evacuating, Leonardis said. About 30 miles away in Elizabeth, at least three dozen people sat and stood on the steps of the Dunn Sports Center. Some had Red Cross blankets, others had piled belongings into bags and suitcases.The shelter is a waystation on what could be a long road back home for many, displaced by flooding that left the city streaked with rust-colored mud and littered with broken-down cars near the Elizabeth River.
Taisy Harris said she got warnings on her phone about the weather, but was shocked at how quickly her street turned into a river. “My personal hygiene stuff was floating all around the living room,” she said. “I’m on 14 different prescriptions, and my medicines were all floating around my apartment, bobbing in the waves. I managed to get one small bag of clothes that were still dry and I climbed into the rescue boat.”
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