the choice that Natasha in the rally Patel made to leave their Whittier street house when the waters of the rahway River began pouring into their basement saved their lives and the life of their infant daughter. I think I’m just more happy than my wife’s okay. Are newborns okay? We started our, we started our life literally here three years ago we got married, bought the house, same year in three years all over stuff scott at five this morning, gas lines damaged by the storm surge exploded, leaving nothing of a home, just a pile of rubble in the ruins of this family’s personal belongings. We don’t have an RDS or anything. I don’t even know how to begin with that card needs to get towed scores license, birth certificates. The explosion woke nearly everyone up in the neighborhood. We heard it allow. It’s a loud boom and they shook the house. We all woke up. It sounds, we all thought we got hit by lightning and thunder. Every neighbor, everybody came out to the streets then and so we came running up but everyone was already outside in the fire and the police department just came in, debris sailed in all directions. This is the patels air conditioning unit across the street in their neighbor’s yard. It was just scary, Just scary. We thought the car was coming through the window all the glass front windows broke out upstairs downstairs. The railway river runs alongside the patels lot. It topped its banks stretching out enough to flood roadways and parks swallowing cars including the patels. They literally saved their lives by leaving but are left with nothing except friends and family and strangers who are heeding the call to a go Fund Me page to make sure they can rebuild their lives with their child. So right now we’ve got to focus on the baby and make sure the baby’s okay. Exactly. Yeah. That’s our blessing, I guess.
A New Jersey family evacuated during Ida flooding. Hours after leaving, an explosion destroyed their home
Updated: 10:52 PM CDT Sep 3, 2021
A New Jersey couple along with their newborn daughter decided to evacuate during Hurricane Ida flooding. The decision saved their lives.Hours after Mitesh and Nirali Patel left their home with their baby, gas lines damaged during a storm surge exploded, leaving only rubble and ruins of their home.”We started our life literally here three years ago,” Nirali Patel told WABC-TV. “We got married. We bought our house the same year. In three years, all our stuff is gone.”Watch the video above to learn more about this story.
RAHWAY, N.J. (Video above from WABC via CNN) —
A New Jersey couple along with their newborn daughter decided to evacuate during Hurricane Ida flooding. The decision saved their lives.
Hours after Mitesh and Nirali Patel left their home with their baby, gas lines damaged during a storm surge exploded, leaving only rubble and ruins of their home.
“We started our life literally here three years ago,” Nirali Patel told WABC-TV. “We got married. We bought our house the same year. In three years, all our stuff is gone.”
Watch the video above to learn more about this story.
