Record-setting rain overwhelmed New York City’s sewer system Friday, sending a surge of floodwater coursing through streets and into basements, schools, subways and vehicles throughout the nation’s most populous city.
The water rose fast and furious, catching some commuters off guard as they slogged through Friday morning’s rush hour. First responders jumped into action where needed, plucking people from stranded cars and basements filling like bathtubs.
More rain fell in a single day at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport – nearly 8 inches – than any other since 1948. A month’s worth of rain fell in Brooklyn in just three hours as it was socked by some of the storm’s most intense rainfall rates Friday morning.
The prolific totals are a symptom of climate change, scientists say, with a warmer atmosphere acting like a massive sponge, able to sop up more water vapor and then wring it out in intense spurts which can easily overwhelm outdated flood protections. MORE
where did the illegals go that were sleeping on the sidewalks during the flooding?
“Das tut mir leid.”
NYC has destroyed NYS; no sympathy.
Eight inches of rain!?! Where I’m from, we call that a scattered thundershower. Six years ago, we got a hair under sixty inches in a five-day period. Every time it sprinkles in New York, they call it a Super Storm so they can claim billions from the federal government.
Maybe the CHUDs will come out and eat all of the NY scum. Eat them all, and then move on to Jersey and Delaware. Fuck it, eat all the Marylanders, too.
Water and sewer are basic infrastructure to any city.
Blue shitheads don’t give a single fuck about basic responsibilities to manage a cities basic needs because Blue shitheads can only focus on meaningless emotional feel good infantile needs and find adulting impossible.
Drown in the shit you voted for Blue shitheads. We have 3 lakes from large to small in my little bean town of 12k. They all have concrete runoff cascades, rip/rap lined overflow channels and drain into creeks.
We get 6 inches of rain in a thunderstorm and not a single street floods because Red Patriots are adults who don’t drown in effluent when it storms.
Fuck Blue America
That rain was a flushing.
Meanwhile New Orleans is dealing with drought conditions. Because climate change… or because sometimes more rain falls than normal in some areas, less in others.
Thank goodness all of their resources are being wasted on the terrorist invasion forces that are infesting the city.
The closest those folks have been to a bath in awhile.
I’m Concerned, How are the Rats & Cockroaches doing?
(the ones with multiple legs, not the Democrat voters)
Schadenfreude aside, the city engineers designed the system to drain only so much, and above that limit it is known it will flood, and about which areas will flood first. Probably a nice report on that in a file cabinet somewhere.
It is designed for some anticipated “normal” rainfall. So, even if they designed for a 100-year rain, it won’t save you for a 500-year or first in history rainfall, and you’re on your own when you get Nature’s full fury.
So, where other coastal ares might sandbag or evacuate for an anticipated big storm, NYC failed to take similar acitons and will have significant disruption to their lives. Hope not dying for not coming in out of the rain.
“They float, they all float, and when your down here with me, you’ll float too.”
So what happened to all of the homeless? Where did they go?
Let the trash take out its own trash.