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As the Hudson Valley continues to recover from Ida, officials from FEMA were in Port Chester Monday to assess damage done to private properties and report it back to the federal government.

The agency has been on the ground since last Wednesday's storm.

Last Wednesday night, about 8 feet of water rushed into furnished basements and garages in a matter of minutes, destroying the areas and resident's belongings.

Glen Avenue is still closed off after floodwaters raised blacktop and saturated sinkholes.

FEMA did an external preliminary survey of the area and Mayor Luis Marino said local officials are laying out a plan to provide relief.

"With the fees and applications to fix the homes, it's going to be immediately. Tomorrow afternoon, I'm going to pass a law where I'm not going to charge anything to the neighbors because they don't deserve it and we will not ask for any income for this matter," Marino said.

Unless you have flood insurance on your homeowners or renters insurance, any property loss due to flooding will likely not be covered. Now that New York is covered under the federal Major Disaster Declaration, up to $5 million in funds will be available to reimburse for damage.

Westchester County has opened a disaster recovery center at the County Center in White Plains where people may apply for financial aid for losses and damages caused by the storm.

Meantime, Marino said FEMA is expected to be back in a matter of days to do an internal survey, so residents need to prepare photos of how their house looked prior to the damage.

FEMA
strongly advises that people register in advance before
visiting the disaster center. Residents can apply for FEMA aid without coming
to the County Center. 

The first
step is to register either by calling FEMA's registration number
1-800-621-3362; or logging into&nbsp;<a href="http://www.disasterassistance.gov(link">www.disasterassistance.gov (link</a> is
external). For those with speech or hearing disabilities, use the TTY number at
800-462-7585.

Officials from FEMA were in Port Chester Monday to assess damage done to private properties and report it back to the federal government.

Hudson Valley

HV | Weather

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For another look at your hyper local forecast as we continue to watch the storm heading into our area. And Alex, I'm seeing some parts on this map showing that snow is expected in some parts of the Hudson Valley on the back end of it, Nadia. Tomorrow morning, we will have a couple of flakes fly and yeah, even some accumulating snow weight of the north and west. But let's first talk about the rain coming in our direction this afternoon. It's still tucked away pretty far to our south. And so we're good here in the Hudson Valley for the morning. We have some areas of fog, but we also have some areas of sunshine. So we'll take it. And certainly if you have any plans before noon, you're good to go. Wind is pretty light for the first part of the day. You would have no idea that a storm was coming except for the fact that it feels a little different out there, it feels a lot warmer than it usually is. This time of the year, we even have temperatures in the fifties in some spots this morning that above average for the afternoon when the afternoon arrives. Now we're starting to kick in some showers. This is two o'clock, four o'clock. Look, we've got some rain passing through at six o'clock still and we continue to see the rain pretty much all through the evening. Some of the worst of the rain will be eight to about midnight or so tonight, it's also quite breezy, 20 to 30 mile per hour wind gusts. You factor in several hours of rain and now you've got some trees coming down, release some branches and that could knock out power. Here's four o'clock in the morning. If you're a really early commuter, you're still dodging rain. And if you're in Sullivan and Ulster County, the high elevations of Ulster County, we're looking at cold enough temperatures for a few snowflakes and then a few flakes will mix in 6 a.m. But at this point, things are drying out. It does stay breezy pretty much all day Monday. In fact, some of the worst wind will be with the sunshine Monday afternoon. I wanna show you two different models here. This is one model showing you the rain all the way up to midnight about an inch or so in White Plains and Yonkers and then it picks up to two inches but notice how close we are to that really heavy rain over Connecticut and Long Island. This other model actually will bring in some of that heavier rain off to our east. I'm gonna show it to you coming up on the other side of the break. But I also wanna show you the winter storm warning in effect for the higher elevations of Ulster County and the advisory in effect for Sullivan. I thought that was kind of important to get to. So I will show you the difference in the rain totals coming up. But a little more good news once we get through Monday, it's totally dry for work week.

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Heavy downpours and high winds move in this afternoon, storm intensity increases tonight. Updates throughout the day and early tomorrow at 4:30 a.m. on News 12.

FEMA inspects Ida damage in Port Chester, encourages victims to seek aid