NEW YORK: Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday (Sep 29), disrupting subway service, inundating ground-level apartments and turning some streets into small lakes. Almost 20cm of rain fell in some parts of the most populous city in the
NEW YORK: Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday , disrupting subway service, inundating ground-level apartments and turning some streets into small lakes.
A man carries his belongings as he abandons his vehicle which stalled in floodwaters during a heavy rain storm in the New York City suburb of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York, US on Sep 29, 2023. The rain capped one of New York's wettest Septembers on record, with 34.9cm of rain falling during the month as of 11am on Friday, and more on the way, said Dominic Ramunni, a National Weather Service forecaster. The all-time high was set in 1882 when 42.72cm fell in September.A police officer from the NYPD Highway Patrol uses his mobile phone next to cars stuck in a flooded street after heavy rains in New York City, US, Sep 29, 2023.
Patti Zhang, 43, a social worker from New Hyde Park, near the border of New York City and Long Island's Nassau County, lives around the corner from the elementary school attended by her three children. The family braved the weather and walked to school on Friday morning. "If they would have a proper drainage system like the other areas of the city, then we wouldn't have this problem," he said."We are really, really suffering."
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