S. Westchester Flood Crisis Stretches First Responders: Photos

MAMARONECK, NY — As the sun rose in Mamaroneck, Red Cross emergency shelters were opened in the Palmer Avenue High School gym at 1000 Boston Post Road and city officials issued an emergency declaration ordering all cars, other than emergency vehicles, off the roads.

"The Village Manager, acting under emergency powers, has ordered all non-emergency vehicles off the roads," Mamaroneck Mayor Tom Murphy said in a statement issued just after dawn on Thursday. "We are still performing rescue operations and the emergency responders don’t need any more folks getting stuck in dangerous situations on the roads."

Mamaroneck was one of several hard-hit southern Westchester communities. Rainfall rates from Philadelphia to the NYC metro area hit 2-3 inches per hour during the deluge caused by post-tropical cyclone Ida, according to the National Weather Service.

"An INCREDIBLE amount of moisture fell in the last 24 hours from the remnants of Hurricane Ida," said Alex Marra and Bill Potter of Hudson Valley Weather.

Overnight floods inundated streets near the Mamaroneck Metro-North Train Station. (Jeff Edwards | Patch)

For businesses on Mamaroneck Avenue, power outages might be the least of their worries. (Jeff Edwards | Patch)

Entrance to 800 Westchester in Rye Brook (Cousin Vinny)

Mamaroneck received help from first responders from all over Westchester, including Larchmont. (Jeff Edwards | Patch)

Neighbors near Mamaroneck Avenue woke up to a mess. (Jeff Edwards |Patch)

High ground near the Mamaroneck Train Station is being used as a staging area for rescue operations. (Jeff Edwards |Patch)

Most of southern Westchester was flooded. In New Rochelle, flooding overnight lingered through the day. (Tonecia Trice)

The Mamaroneck River swelled to dangerous levels. (Truike Boekholt-Daly)

Rye was hard-hit as well. (Jeff Edwards | Patch)

Cars in Bronxville were simply swallowed up by the overflowing Sprain Brook Parkway. (Connor Diliberto)

Yonkers police posted these shots of members of the YonkersPD ESU conducting water rescue operations Wednesday night. (Yonkers Police Department)

The Orienta section of Mamaroneck suffered serious damage. (Jeff Edwards | Patch)

Overnight deluge on Elm Place in Rye. (JFC)

The water at Meso restaurant in Rye reached "shoulder high." (Jeff Edwards | Patch)

Please send your photos and videos of the storm, the flooding and the aftermath to Jeff.Edwards@patch.com

SEE ALSO:

• Ida In the Hudson Valley: Town-by-Town Rainfall Totals
• 1 Dead, 1 Missing From Flooding In Westchester: County Executive
• 'Significant Damage' As Mamaroneck Flooded By Ida

Editor's Note: The Sprain Brook Parkway was incorrectly identified in an earlier version of this report. Patch regrets the error.