Lubia Estevez and Forest Whitlock, both women in their 60s, died Monday night when they were traveling during an intense storm and their car ended up in a ditch before being washed away. Their families are now sharing the kind of people they were.

The piles of destroyed belongings continue to grow in North Plainfield, where many are cleaning up for the second time in less than four years after Hurricane Ida. CBS News New York's Vanessa Murdock reports.

Plainfield officials say two people died after flash flooding swept a vehicle into Cedar Brook during Monday’s storm. It is believed the vehicle was caught in rising water at the height of the storm. Emergency crews responded quickly, but both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene.

New Jersey faces a major cleanup effort after this week's flash floods swept through Union and Somerset counties.

Both westbound and eastbound lanes have since reopened. Crews were cleaning up mud, repairing the road and damaged dividers and repaving the roadway. They also painted new stripes in the eastbound lanes. All of these repairs are happening after Monday night's storm that flooded streets and damaged homes, roads and cars.