Source: CNN
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/weather/ ... index.htmlFlooding closed roads, disrupted subway service and flooded basements in the New York City area as “dangerous and life-threatening” rainfall overwhelmed the concrete expanse during the Friday morning commute.
A month’s worth of rain – more than 4 inches – fell over parts of Brooklyn in just three hours Friday morning, as intense rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches an hour fell across the New York tri-state area.
The heaviest rainfall began to ease across hard-hit portions of Manhattan and Brooklyn late Friday morning, but another round is expected in the afternoon and could reinvigorate dangerous flooding.
“This is a dangerous weather condition and it is not over,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a Friday morning news briefing. “I don’t want those gaps in heavy rain to give the appearance that it is over, it is not.”