A fierce thunderstorm on June 29, 2005, left hundreds of cars submerged as flooding overwhelmed several of Westchester’s major roads.
The flooding paralyzed local traffic and shut down Metro-North Railroad’s Harlem Line between North White Plains and Chappaqua.
Firefighters in North White Plains and Valhalla had to rescue people from more than a dozen submerged cars on the Taconic State Parkway.
And Greenburgh police rescued 27 people and three dogs from flooded areas of the town.
The Saw Mill River Parkway, the Sprain Brook Parkway at Route 100, the Taconic State Parkway in Mount Pleasant, the Bronx River Parkway near White Plains and Route 9A in Hawthorne and Route 119 in Elmsford all were closed because of flooding.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Flash flooding wreaked havoc in Westchester in June 2005
Reporting by Jonathan Bandler, Rockland/Westchester Journal News / Rockland/Westchester Journal News
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