Kentucky Flooding Death Toll Continues To Rise as Hundreds Are Still Missing
August 1, 2022Currents News Staff Hundreds of people vanished because of unprecedented flooding in Kentucky. It has left families without answers. While the search […]
Topic: Flooding
How the Catholic Church Is Helping Relief Efforts in Kentucky
August 1, 2022Currents News Staff In the southeastern region of Kentucky, homes, offices and communities have been destroyed. Power and electricity is out and […]
St. Mary’s Winfield Church Moves Forward with Repairs After Tropical Storm Ida Devastation
November 17, 2021By Jessica Easthope Always forward, never back – that’s the slogan St. Mary’s Winfield adopted at the beginning of the pandemic to […]
Queens Woman Who Lost Everything in Tropical Storm Ida Counts Her Blessings After Starting Over
November 9, 2021By Jessica Easthope The floors and walls are dry. It’s been more than two months since Tropical Storm Ida, but Leticia Orta […]
Help Is On The Way For Undocumented New Yorkers Impacted By Hurricane Ida
October 4, 2021By Emily Drooby Any given day at the Chinese American Planning Council, or the CPC, immigrants from all over Brooklyn receive help. […]
How This Blind Man Saved His Mother From Tropical Storm Ida
September 20, 2021By Emily Drooby As Tropical Storm Ida raged, Danette Rivera ran down the steps into the basement of her Woodside, Queens home […]
Five Families that go to St. Mary’s Winfield Church in Woodside now Homeless After NYC Flooding
September 15, 2021By Emily Drooby The flooding line still visible in Leticia’s Queens apartment, weeks after Tropical Storm Ida hit NYC. Mold now covers […]
President Biden Visits Queens Neighborhoods Affected by Flooding as Residents Ask for Federal Help
September 7, 2021By Emily Drooby It’s been almost a week since Tropical Storm Ida brought extreme flooding to Queens. As President Biden prepared to […]
Parishioners and Clergy in the Diocese of Brooklyn Clean-Up After Massive Flooding Caused by Ida
September 2, 2021By Emily Drooby It was a difficult site to witness inside St. Mary’s Winfield Church in Woodside, Queens. Five feet of water […]