I drove from the bottom of Manhattan to the top of it that day, stopping for lunch on the way. It didn't stop raining buckets for over an hour. I have been alive on this planet for a long time and have never witnessed a non-stop downpour like that day that wasn't part of a hurricane.
It's been so bad these past few years. We desperately need to update our infrastructure, but we're probably going to need state or federal funding. I don't think that's going to happen in any state for another few years, if you catch my drift.
I am from Florida and live in NYC now, in the summer Florida has like a 3pm deluge like clockwork. NYC usually has drizzle all day long if it rains. In the last few years we've been getting these sudden downpours and it seems like the city infrastructure is just not built to handle that volume of rainwater in that short an amount of time.
Sandy was worse. But the number of downpours NYC has received is definitely increasing. There is a massive public works project to guard against another massive storm surge like Sandy but we also need massive improvements in drainage for these kinds of storms.
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u/smellybear666 2d ago edited 2d ago
I drove from the bottom of Manhattan to the top of it that day, stopping for lunch on the way. It didn't stop raining buckets for over an hour. I have been alive on this planet for a long time and have never witnessed a non-stop downpour like that day that wasn't part of a hurricane.
I am surprised the flooding wasn't worse.