Unusually heavy rain paralyzed parts of the East Coast metropolis of New York. Highways and streets were transformed into lakescapes and an airport terminal was also flooded and closed. Yesterday the city council asked people to stay at home if possible – many subways stopped running or had long delays. Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency.
One day, in some parts of New York, it rained more than usual in a month in just a few hours. According to information from the New York Times, September is the wettest in more than 140 years in the metropolis of eight million inhabitants – since records began, only 1882 has received more precipitation. Many New Yorkers remembered the heavy rains that flooded the city two years ago as a result of Hurricane Ida. At that time, at least eleven people died because their basement apartments were flooded.
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