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FloodMercer, New Jersey

August 28, 2011 · NOAA Storm Events record

Direct deaths
2
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
$75.0M
Area
Mercer

Event narrative (NOAA)

In Princeton, a 39-year-old emergency responder died from injuries sustained while investigating a submerged vehicle in flood waters. No one was in the vehicle. In Lawrence Township, a 50-year-old man became trapped in a sewer pipe at Shemin Nurseries and drowned. Flooding along the Delaware River and Assunpink Creek affected Trenton and northeast rail service. The Island and Glen Afton sections of Trenton was affected by flooding from the Delaware River. The Island section was under mandatory evacuation. About 70 homes were damaged and 50 were declared uninhabitable. Flooding along the Assunpink Creek inundated the Trenton Rail station and canceled Amtrak Rail Service between Philadelphia and Boston from the 27th through the 31st. ||The flooding rains and winds damaged and or closed eigh

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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.

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