On Monday, Highland Falls residents began what's expected to be a lengthy clean-up process after flood waters filled basements, washed away roads and left some people without homes at all.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.The village of Highland Falls, a military town in the shadow of West Point of about 3,700 people, has been home to a few floods over the years. Such is life when a brook feeding the Hudson River winds its way through homes and businesses.that comes with a summer’s worth of rain in a single day.
At a briefing Monday morning, Gov. Kathy Hochul called it a “1,000-year flood, adding that she had spoken with the White House and the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator — and that both had pledged assistance. The New York State Department of Transportation and Orange County Department of Public Works are thoroughly surveying roads and bridges in the area.
“These are unprecedented weather events that keep hitting us, over and over and over again,” Hochul said. “So we must change our behavior as a planet, as a country, as a state and in our own homes.” Directly across the street from the museum, a steady stream of cars and trucks passed by the entrance to the Sacred Heart Church of Jesus’ gym, where the American Red Cross quickly set up a shelter late Sunday. One by one, they dropped off bottles of water, paper towels and other dry goods — neighbors lending a hand to neighbors.
The gym is a remnant of the church’s school, which closed in the early 2000s. During the early days of the COVID pandemic, the gym was converted into a community thrift store, where people in need found furniture, clothing and other necessities, according to church volunteer Jeannette Scott, a parishioner who attended the school there in the 1960s.
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