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30-09-2023, 04:02 PM
BY KATIE HONAN AND SAMANTHA MALDONADO SEP 30, 2023, 3:41AM GMT+8
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY GWYNNE HOGAN AND HAIDEE CHU
Record rainfall soaked New York on Friday, disrupting public transportation and schools while flooding streets and homes as officials struggled to cope with the deluge
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Parents, environmentalists and regular commuters alike were steamed for not being given more of a warning by city officials.
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The mayor spoke to New Yorkers just before 12 p.m. — well after the horrific morning commute and hours into a storm that flooded 150 schools, countless homes, and miles of streets and highways, even the inside of a bus. The surging waters also shut down Terminal A at LaGuardia Airport.
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“This is not an ordinary rainfall. This is historic. We are on track to possibly create a new record of 10 inches of rain falling in literally 24 hours,” Hochul said Friday in a late afternoon press briefing. “The last time we even had this number was in 1955 and that was over a two-day period. This is Hurricane Ida-level waters.”
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“This storm is once again proving there is a glaring structural need for better interagency communication, as well as improved communication to the public about severe weather like this,” Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said in a statement.
A lot more at: https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/9/29/238963...up-lessons
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY GWYNNE HOGAN AND HAIDEE CHU
Record rainfall soaked New York on Friday, disrupting public transportation and schools while flooding streets and homes as officials struggled to cope with the deluge
......
Parents, environmentalists and regular commuters alike were steamed for not being given more of a warning by city officials.
......
The mayor spoke to New Yorkers just before 12 p.m. — well after the horrific morning commute and hours into a storm that flooded 150 schools, countless homes, and miles of streets and highways, even the inside of a bus. The surging waters also shut down Terminal A at LaGuardia Airport.
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“This is not an ordinary rainfall. This is historic. We are on track to possibly create a new record of 10 inches of rain falling in literally 24 hours,” Hochul said Friday in a late afternoon press briefing. “The last time we even had this number was in 1955 and that was over a two-day period. This is Hurricane Ida-level waters.”
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“This storm is once again proving there is a glaring structural need for better interagency communication, as well as improved communication to the public about severe weather like this,” Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said in a statement.
A lot more at: https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/9/29/238963...up-lessons
