They waded through chest-high water to the front door to escape. Cao tore open the ceiling there and descended a ladder into a restroom. They climbed into the ceiling’s crawl space and scrambled over to HighLine Fashion, a neighboring store.

Unable to push the restaurant’s front door open, he told his five employees to leave everything and led them to a back room, where he climbed atop a refrigerator and pushed up ceiling tiles. Cao, 37, laid down sandbags and called 911. Typically, it looks like a stream, but the river’s water swelled over its concrete channel walls around 8 p.m. 1, more than seven inches of rain fell in four hours, and a torrent sped down the nearby slopes of the South Mountain to the Rahway River, which flows 10 feet from Thai House. Then Hurricane Ida’s remnants reached his door. To survive the pandemic’s waves, Kevin Cao, the owner of Thai House Restaurant, halted dine-in service, cut five staff members and kept his drunken noodles, pad thai and curry moving with curbside pickup and delivery.

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