Fast-moving Tropical Storm Fay made landfall in New Jersey on Friday amid heavy, lashing rains that closed beaches and flooded shore town streets.
This GOES-16 satellite image taken at 9:30 UTC on Friday, July 10, 2020 shows Tropical Storm Fay as it moves closer to land in the northeast of the United States. Fay was expected to bring 2 to 4 inches of rain, with the possibility of flash flooding in parts of the mid-Atlantic and southern New England, The U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its 5 a.m. advisory.
Several beaches in Delaware had been temporarily closed because of the storm. And police in Ocean City asked drivers to avoid southern parts of the tourist town because flooding had already made some roads impassable. Some streets in the New Jersey shore towns of Sea Isle City and Wildwood were flooded, according to social media posts. Seaside Heights, New Jersey, reported a sustained wind of 37 mph and New York City's John F.
The summer storm's impact on the city was expected to be ”pretty limited,“ but de Blasio said it would be a bad night for outdoor dining - the only sit-down service allowed at city restaurants because of the pandemic. “They will actually be escorted into individual classrooms,” he said. “If you take a school and make pretend that it's a hotel, we'll be using individual classrooms like individual hotel rooms.”
“We're fully prepared. FEMA's ready in case it's bad. Shouldn't be too bad, but you never know,” Trump told reporters while departing the White House for Florida.
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