Isaias toggled between hurricane and tropical storm strength as it churned toward the East Coast.
A woman in Mechanicsville, Maryland, died when a tree crashed onto her car during stormy conditions, said Cpl. In New York City, a massive tree fell and crushed a van in the Briarwood section of Queens, killing a man inside, police said. Pretty much the entire trailer park is gone.” “All my officers are down there at this time. Nothing is there,” Bertie County Sheriff John Holley told reporters, saying 10 mobile homes had been destroyed.
“It doesn’t look real it looks like something on TV. Nearby, a vehicle was flipped onto its roof. Aerial video by WRAL-TV showed fields of debris where rescue workers in brightly colored shirts picked through splintered boards and other wreckage. The mobile home park less than 2 miles (3 kilometers) away wasn't so fortunate. “I felt like the house was going to cave in,” said Jeffrey Stillwell, 65, though once the storm passed, the couple found only a few damaged shingles and fallen tree branches in the yard. Sharee Stillwell said their home shook “like a freight train.” Tuesday as the tornado tore through Windsor. Sharee and Jeffrey Stilwell took shelter in their living room about 1:30 a.m. He said about 12 people were hospitalized. They found no other casualties, and several people initially feared missing had all been accounted for, said Ron Wesson, chairman of the Bertie County Board of Commissioners. Emergency responders finished searching the wreckage Tuesday afternoon. Two people died after a tornado demolished several mobile homes in Windsor, North Carolina. EDT Tuesday, the storm's center was about 65 miles (105 km) west of New York City, where winds forced the Staten Island ferry and outdoor subway lines to shut down.Īs Isaias sped northward at 40 mph (56 kph), the National Hurricane Center warned of potentially life-threatening flooding around Philadelphia and other points along the I-95 corridor. More than 15 hours after coming ashore, Isaias still had sustained top winds of 65 mph (105 kph). Authorities said two others were killed by falling trees toppled by the storm in Maryland and New York City. Two people died when Isaias spun off a tornado that struck a North Carolina mobile home park. East Coast after making landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina, where it caused floods and fires that displaced dozens of people. At least four people were killed as Tropical Storm Isaias spawned tornadoes and dumped rain Tuesday along the U.S.