9-29-23...NYC STATE OF EMERGENCY.

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NY Post-NYC streets turn into raging rivers during epic downpour flooding roads and subways​
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Snejana Farberov
Published Sep. 29, 2023, 10:41 a.m. ET
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Wild scenes of flooding unfolded throughout New York City Friday morning as an intense rainstorm barreled through the tri-state area, turning local roads into rivers during the morning rush hour.
Videos showed cars plowing through knee-deep water in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, with a whirlpool seen swirling in the middle of the waterlogged road.
Cellphone footage taken aboard an MTA bus at 18th Avenue and 60th Street in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood showed floodwaters gushing into the vehicle filled with passengers, among them children, who tried to stay dry by lifting their feet off the floor.
The Big Apple’s major roads fared no better, as the Brooklyn- Queens Expressway, the Belt Parkway and Prospect Park Expressway all turning into rivers teeming with partially flooded cars trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
NYPICHPDPICT000053122309.jpgA bus plows through a flooded road in Brooklyn during Friday morning’s storm.Paul MartinkaNYPICHPDPICT000053122290.jpgSome motorists found themselves trapped by floodwaters inside their vehicles and had to be rescued.Paul Martinka
The storm also drenched parts of the city’s subway system, turning a staircase at the Grand Army Plaza station on the 2/3 line in Brooklyn into a waterfall, as seen in a bystander’s dramatic cellphone video.
The MTA has suspended service on 17 lines in Brooklyn due water on the tracks. Subway lines citywide are expecting delays and service changes, the agency said Friday.

The National Weather Service issued flash flood warning, citing a “dangerous and life-threatening situation” caused by the storm, which is expected to bring up to 7 inches of rain in some parts of the region.

“Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order,” an emergency alert sent out late Friday morning warned.
 
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FFM1938 said:
Stay safe out there, best case is everybody gets a gear wash
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Everyone who has to be out there - PLEASE BE CAREFUL.

I've heard that for every 1 inch of rain that falls - it is equal to 10 inches of snow.
If that's true, NYC could have received roughly 40-50 inches of snow if this were January or February.
As our site member, retired FDNYs "Johnnygage" says; "time to bring out the banjos" (snow shovels)
 
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nfd2004 said:
Everyone who has to be out there - PLEASE BE CAREFUL.

I've heard that for every 1 inch of rain that falls - it is equal to 10 inches of snow.
If that's true, NYC could have received roughly 40-50 inches of snow if this were January or February.
As our site member, retired FDNYs "Johnnygage" says; "time to bring out the banjos" (snow shovels)
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Watching video on the Weather Channel, when Mike is in town it isn't good!
 
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The less you clean out storm drains the more flooding you will have. Look at the storm drains on da city highways and see the weeds growing out of them. It ain't global warming, it's a major lack of maintenance.
 
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Reported elsewhere, the flooding in Central Park was so severe that the sea lions in the zoo were able to swim over their glass enclosures and escape. They were safely captured and returned.
 
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