Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency Sunday. Other parts of the saturated Northeast began drying out Monday after drenching weekend rains resulted in flash flooding in parts of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. The county commissioners signed an emergency declaration in response to the flooding. Pennsylvania’s flash floods also drowned Enzo Depiero, 78, and Linda Depiero, 74, of Newtown Yuko Love, 64, of Newtown and Susan Barnhart, 53, of Titusville, New Jersey, Bucks County Coroner Meredith Buck said. “And so you just simply pray with them for a few minutes.” “No matter how long I’ve been doing this - over and over and over, many, many years - you find yourself still helpless and without words to make people feel more comfortable,” Picard said.
Andrew Roman Catholic Church, where family members are parishioners, said he spoke with the grandparents Sunday. Scott Ellis, an uncle to the missing children, described the family as “utterly devastated.” “A wall of water came to them they did not go into the water,” Brewer said of the Sheils family. The grandmother survived, but Seley, 32, was among five killed by the floods. Sheils and his son made it to safety, but Seley and the grandmother were swept away. The children’s father, Jim Sheils, grabbed their 4-year-old son, while the children’s mother, Katie Seley, and a grandmother grabbed the other children, said Upper Makefield Township Fire Chief Tim Brewer. The children are members of a Charleston, South Carolina, family that was visiting relatives and friends when they got caught in a flash flood Saturday. In eastern Pennsylvania, authorities described Monday’s search for missing Matilda Sheils, 2, and her 9-month-old brother Conrad Sheils as a “massive undertaking” along a creek that drains into the Delaware River.
Other parts of the country endured threateningly high temperatures and severe air pollution from Canadian wildfires. WASHINGTON CROSSING - Pennsylvania authorities drew on 100 people, drones and cadaver dogs Monday in their search for two missing children whose family’s car was swept away in flash flooding that ravaged the East Coast over the weekend.
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