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<\/p>\nNEW YORK (WABC) — It has been a morning of heavy rain, flash flooding and downed trees for residents across the Tri-State on Monday.<\/p>\n
The flooding in New Jersey made the morning commute very dangerous and most of the area remains under a Flash Flood Warning.<\/p>\n
In Newark, cars stalled after drivers got caught in the high water and had to push their vehicles to higher and drier land.<\/p>\n
It was much of the same story in Paterson where cars got stranded outside of St. Joseph Hospital.<\/p>\n
And in Westwood, some roads had to be shut down due to all the flooding from the Pascack Brook.<\/p>\n
The location has a flood monitor because the area has a history of flooding with heavy rainfall in a short period of time.<\/p>\n
The weather also brought down trees across the area, including into a charter bus in Westport, Connecticut.<\/p>\n
At least one of the bus’s windows was broken when the tree came down on I-95 around 6:45 a.m.<\/p>\n
Sixteen people were onboard at the time and a few passengers suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
On Long Island, a large tree fell onto the LIRR tracks in Smithtown. A train crashed into the tree, smashing the window to the engineer’s compartment.<\/p>\n
One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
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