Emergency officials warned residents to stay off the roads and find higher ground
A slow-moving storm drenched the Washington, D.C., area Monday morning, causing flash floods that forced some drivers to abandon their cars and delayed subway lines during the busy morning rush hour after a holiday weekend.
The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood emergency that affected more than 1.5 million residents in the district and Virginia. The NWS said extremely dangerous, life-threatening flash floods would occur through the late morning and issued a warning for the area, as well as parts of Maryland, through...
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