Connecticut
Dock with boats still attached breaks free from marina on flooding Connecticut River: video
A dock with several boats still attached to it broke free from a marina and was spotted floating down the inundated Connecticut River as the Northeast continues to recover from catastrophic flooding, video shows.
The dock was seen lazily floating away Wednesday as waters continue to rise after extreme rainfall earlier this week, according to video taken by local resident Jill Zaino obtained by WFSB.
The dock appeared to still have five boats tied to it when it became unmoored and drifted south.
Zaino told the station she believes the dock came from the Oasis Marina in Glastonbury.
The US Coast Guard is aware of the situation, and the Connecticut Department of Transportation and good Samaritans are assisting with monitoring, WFSB reported.
The dock and boats were seen just days after heavy rains walloped the Northeast, affecting millions of people and causing severe damages and even deaths in New York and Vermont.
A New York woman was killed on Monday after she was swept away in the Hudson Valley after rain forced massive boulders to smash into her home, damaging one of its walls. Her fiance helplessly watched her be taken by the waters.
The chaos continued to ravage small towns in Vermont like the small city of Ludlow, which recorded a whopping 7.72 inches of rain Monday.
The floodwaters completely submerged homes, pushed cars into bridges and caused a railroad trestle to collapse.
President Biden has declared a state of emergency in Vermont. Gov. Phil Scott held a news conference Tuesday with other state and local leaders to provide updates on the ongoing situation and described it as “historic” and “catastrophic.”
Fox Weather meteorologist Brian Mastro told The Post on Wednesday that the region could see more severe flooding this weekend as the already-saturated ground may not be able to absorb much more water when forecasted heavy rains strike again this Friday.