{"id":312628,"date":"2026-08-03T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312628\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:04:10","slug":"downpours-batter-n-y-n-j-commuities-causing-flooding-downed-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312628\/","title":{"rendered":"Downpours batter N.Y., N.J. commuities causing flooding, downed trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of New York and New Jersey can&#8217;t catch a break from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/parts-of-n-j-flood-after-being-inundated-with-rain-from-strong-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flooding<\/a> as another round of strong storms inundated communities Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rain has been aggressive at times in Passaic County, which has been battered by rain for the last two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights saw heavy rain just before noon. There was some flooding at the river at Goffle Brook Park in nearby Hawthorne.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, cars got stuck in high water along Goffle Road, which was what was seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/bergen-county-n-j-severe-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last week<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/weather-tracker-jersey-flooding-hi-res-still-06-38-5504.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"weather-tracker-jersey-flooding-hi-res-still-06-38-5504.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Floodwaters surround a truck in New Jersey on August 3, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>The town is still recovering from back-to-back flooding where intersections and roadways got clobbered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Morris County, there were flooded streets outside homes in Dover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The weather is also causing damage across New York.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bisram-12-pkg-ny-wx-que-wcbsimkh-hi-res-still.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"bisram-12-pkg-ny-wx-que-wcbsimkh-hi-res-still.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A huge tree fell on a car in Queens Village during strong storms on August 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>A tree crushed a car near Cross Island Parkway and 86th Avenue in Queens Village and damaged a home. The gigantic tree is covering the entire road.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lirr-tree.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lirr-tree.jpg \" height=\"827\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A Long Island Rail Road train hit a large tree that fell on the tracks in Smithtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Smithtown Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>On Long Island, an LIRR train struck a tree that fell across the tracks in Smithtown. It caused damage to the engineer&#8217;s compartment, and one person was transported to the hospital for treatment, according to firefighters.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parts of New York and New Jersey can&#8217;t catch a break from flooding as another round of strong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-312628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}