Recovery Begins in Highland Falls, New York, After Historic Flood

Highland Falls, N.Y.—DeeDee Moreno, a big-hearted craft store owner, walked down Main Street in the village of Highland Falls after the water had ceded and checked on everyone she saw. 
Nearly nine inches of rainfall on Sunday, July 9, turned the once babbling Highland Brook into a roaring river, which swept the central business district and pushed parked cars over a fence down to a lower lot. 
Highland Brook in Highland Falls, N.Y., on July 10, 2023, the day after nearly nine inches of rainfall. (Cara Ding/The Epoch Times)
The water also found its way into the basements of storefronts along the commercial street, including a laundry shop owned by a Korean family….