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Torrential downpours pounded the U.S. Northeast connected Monday, threatening catastrophic flooding crossed the region, wherever rains person washed retired roadways, overwhelmed rivers, forced galore rescues by vessel and caused astatine slightest 1 fatality, officials said.

Some 13 cardinal Americans were nether flood watches and warnings from Eastern New York authorities to Boston and Western Maine to the northeast, wherever up to 7 inches (18 cm) of rainfall were expected to fall, the National Weather Service said successful its forecast, aft storms that began implicit the play inundated rivers and streams.

"Widespread, dense rainfall susceptible of producing sizeable to catastrophic flooding is opening to unfold, roadworthy washouts are ongoing, and are expected to summation successful grade and severity implicit the people of the day," the upwind work said connected Monday.

Hundreds of flights successful and retired of airports crossed the region, including New York's LaGuardia and Boston's Logan, person been delayed oregon canceled starting connected Sunday owed to the rains. On Monday morning, Amtrak suspended rider bid work betwixt Albany and New York aft flooding damaged tracks.

The upwind claimed the beingness of an Orange County, New York, woman, who was swept distant by floodwaters arsenic she attempted to permission her location with her canine connected Sunday, County Executive Steven Neuhaus, said successful an interrogation with ABC's "Good Morning America" connected Monday.

"Last nighttime was implicit chaos," helium said.

Neuhaus said archetypal responders were trying to scope trapped radical to marque definite they are harmless successful Highland Falls and the West Point-Fort Montgomery area, which is on the Hudson River northbound of New York City and is location to the Army's U.S. Military Academy, champion known arsenic West Point.

"Many roads and bridges person been washed out," helium said. "So that's fundamentally what our precedence is today, to effort to get to them and unfastened up these large arteries."

Video footage and photos posted connected societal media showed washed-out roadways and raging floodwaters reaching houses connected Sunday and aboriginal Monday morning.

"Oh my God. It's up to my knees," Melissa Roberts said successful a video showing floodwaters rushing past her and respective vehicles and up to homes successful Orange County.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has issued states of exigency for that region and Ontario County to the northwest, and urged residents to ticker the forecast intimately passim the day.

In Vermont, life-threatening flash flooding was imaginable for astir of the New England authorities connected Monday, with forecasters saying arsenic overmuch arsenic an inch (2.5 cm) of rainfall an hr was expected astatine times during the morning.

About 2 twelve authorities roads were closed arsenic life-threatening flooding dispersed crossed overmuch of the authorities from the Massachusetts authorities enactment northbound to the Canadian border, Vermont State Police said.

In cardinal Vermont, the upwind service's Burlington bureau declared a flash flood emergency, advising that the country could spot the worst flooding since Hurricane Irene deed the authorities successful 2011, erstwhile 11 inches (28 cm) fell.

Media reports said the rainfall had already turned galore roads into raging rivers crossed the state, wherever Governor Phil Scott declared a authorities of exigency connected Sunday.

Emergency crews successful boats rescued astir a twelve campers successful Andover aboriginal Monday said Jeannette Haight, the town's clerk.

"A span washed retired and that was the lone mode successful oregon out," she said. "The telephone for assistance went retired astatine 4 a.m., and they acceptable up a swift-boat rescue. Everyone is harmless this morning."

More vessel crews, including immoderate from North Carolina, were connected their mode to Vermont to assistance successful different rescues, according to section media reports.