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The deluge came two years after the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped record ... and other cities and towns near New York City also experienced flooding. The remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia ...
During the final week of summer in 2021, Hurricane Ida emerged from the Gulf of Mexico, turned almost directly northeast and swept through the South en route to Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and ...
Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley Friday morning as the worst of the flooding hit. In an interview with New York’s WNBC-TV ...
New York City's infrastructure was built for weather patterns of the past, and those designs did not account for the recent extreme rainfall and flash flooding caused by Hurricane Irene ...
Historic flooding is happening in the New York City Metropolitan area ... previously 5.83 inches from Hurricane Donna (196). However, today’s non-hurricane event went even further.
When the city’s drainage network is overwhelmed, “it backs up,” experts said. By Patrick McGeehan and Hilary Howard All drainage systems have their limitations and New York City’s is 1.75 ...
“The city is acting now to keep New Yorkers safe as we move into hurricane season ... severity and impacts of flooding in New York City Additionally, the New York City Department of ...
Superstorm Sandy hit New York City on October 29, 2012 and was the deadliest storm of that hurricane season ... of New Yorkers directly threatened by flooding could more than double from about ...
New York officials are preparing for the potential arrival of Hurricane Lee, a dangerous Category 3 storm passing through the Atlantic Ocean that could hit the East Coast sometime this week.