Residents, government officials and business leaders will head out Thursday to begin tabulating the damage — both financial and emotional — from Wednesday’s storm, which dropped historically high amounts of rain across a wide swath of eastern upstate New York.
Schodack, which took a massive hit from the storm that destroyed buildings and roads, had received nearly 12 inches of rain by 3:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service, and the rain carried on for hours afterward. Rainfall unlike anything seen here since Tropical Storm Irene hit in 2011, cost an unknown amount of financial losses.
A number of roads remained closed Thursday morning and the National Weather Service said a flood warning will remain in effect until at least 10:15 a.m…