“Our state agencies are preparing emergency response assets and we are in close contact with local governments across the state to ensure they are prepared,” she said. Kathy Hochul warned Monday that “severe weather is expected across the state this week, bringing with it persistent rain, thunderstorms and the potential to cause flash flooding.” “The hazards associated with these thunderstorms are frequent lightning, severe thunderstorm wind gusts, hail, and a minimal threat of tornadoes,” it said.Īlready, photos and videos shared on social media appeared to show hail storms in areas in Pennsylvania and North Carolina on Monday. The associated front was expected to bring showers and moderate to severe thunderstorms over parts of New York state, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and North Carolina, with a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms over parts of the Northeast/mid-Atlantic through Wednesday morning, the weather service said in a later update. More severe weather is expected in the area, with the weather service warning that a front extending from parts of the Great Lakes/mid-Atlantic to the Southeast and then to the southern Plains was also moving toward the East Coast. Had they waited for the Thursday flight, she said, it would have "kind of felt outlandish that suddenly, I would have to be in New York for an entire week." More severe weather on the way She said that after spending almost 9 hours at LaGuardia, and then having to take a Lyft in the early hours of Tuesday, her family was "tired, but I think there's enough to do and figure out that it's not hard to stay awake either." “It’s definitely an adventure,” Cameron said of the unexpected journey to get to home. The family had commitments at home in Minneapolis, Stewart Downey said, adding: "We all want to get back as soon as possible." She said she and her family ended up having to take a Lyft, which she said Delta Air Lines paid for, all the way to Hartford, Connecticut, a nearly 2-hour drive, in hopes of catching a flight to Detroit and then, finally, to Minneapolis. "We said we'll take any flight to any city," Stewart Downey, a communications director for a school district in Minnesota, said in a phone interview. NBC New YorkĪfter hours of waiting, they learned their own flight had been delayed and then canceled due to severe weather, with the next flight available not until Thursday. Planes sit on the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City on Monday as severe weather disrupts travel. flight back to Minneapolis, they noticed a string of flights being canceled due to severe weather, but they held out hope their own journey would not be affected. When they arrived at LaGuardia around 4 p.m. Stewart Downey, 57, and her two children, Cameron, 24, and Dallas, who will soon turn 16, had been in New York to celebrate the upcoming birthday.
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