Northern NY hit by severe flooding, road washouts

Emergency officials were assessing the damage Wednesday in three northern New York counties where dozens of roads flooded and some were washed out after severe thunderstorms dumped more than 2½ inches of rain across the eastern Adirondacks. The storms that rolled across upstate New York on a northeasterly track starting Tuesday afternoon dropped nearly 2 inches of rain in the Syracuse area and 1.5 inches to 2.7 inches in the three-county region in the state’s northeast corner, according to the National Weather Service office in Burlington, Vt.