36m ago / 2:41 PM UTC
Historic flooding possible in New York City
Twenty-three million people were under flood watches across parts of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut on Friday morning with flash flood warnings in effect for parts of Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and New Jersey.
In some places, flooding was already occurring or imminent and causing severe delays to the subway system in New York City and other travel in the area.
The rain is not expected to let up after the morning hours, and the Northeast could see potentially historic amounts of rainfall Friday into Saturday morning.
New York City’s rainfall total will likely rank in the top 5 for wettest Septembers on record. If New York City picks up more than 7.13 inches of rain over the 24-hour period on Friday, it will eclipse the record rainfall that fell from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on Sept. 1, 2021.
1h ago / 2:12 PM UTC
New York officials to brief the media
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and other local leaders are expected to brief on the storm’s damage and ongoing flooding in the area.
1h ago / 2:12 PM UTC
Roof collapses, flooding and every NYC subway line affected
New York City first responders are responding to calls of minor roof collapses, flooded basements with people inside of them, and numerous cars stalled out on flooded roads with people inside them citywide but particularly in parts of Brooklyn and Queens but there are no fatalities so far, a senior NYC official says.
Right now, FDNY and NYPD are handling the situation and feel like they are getting to the calls quickly given the weather situation — but the rain is continuing, the official said.
Every single subway line is affected, according to the MTA with significant flooding on some of the lines.
Source: | This article originally belongs to Nbcnews.com
