Record-breaking rainfall causes flooding in New York City

Parts of New York City and the metro area were left paralyzed Friday as torrential rain overwhelmed city streets. Residents were urged to stay home or shelter in place. Errol Barnett reports.

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[Jennapeters]

It's been devastating to see the impact of the recent flooding in New York. I can't help but think about how it's affecting people's finances.

[emausderratsuchende]

The city hasn't been this clean in a long time...

[cocolocoflow]

We humans think we are ABOVE everything .... but we often forget, Mother Nature and Father Time rule all.

[ChickenTender]

The issue is the ground is covered in concrete and asphalt so the water has no where to soak in.

[blackbird]

Water is rushing into the subway and people are STILL walking down into it. WTF?! They're nuts.

[thisfreakingguy]

And the midwest where all the crops grow.... is having the biggest lack of rain they have ever seen....

[craffte]

How do y'all not know that you can't just drive slowly through a body of water that is AS HIGH AS your tires?
The next step is your car is gonna float.

[juliewalters]

3" of rain wouldn't do that. When was the last time New York City cleaned out their catch basins? That's a lot of trash floating around... I can only image how much is below ground.

[anidanilac]

The beginning of God sadness!!! We should start praying!!! God wants us to do what's right!!! 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Misss_]

I'd like to know how they gonna help the American people actual AMERICAN TAX Payers???

[RaccoonRepublic]

"One driver seen with their legs out the window." I'm not sure the storm adequately explains that. When major flooding happens, is it normal to see a lot of legs out of windows? Why is the driver barefooted? So many questions.

[sugarshaker]

Adams seems sad because he's going to have to spend some money to clean up the city and there will be less money to spend on his precious illegals

[DavidPerez-ojdv]

ONCE AGAIN, THE CITY IS FINALLY CLEAN

[IAmUS]

How are the migrants doing? This is when we need to take care of our own

[reecom]

If water raises 6-inches to a foot above the car floor, this very well could be considered enough damage for the car to be totaled as a flood damaged car. The flood waters in the car interior causes black mold in the carpet, shorts out and corrodes electrical connections that are not water-proof in the interior of the car and costing more money to repair; making it a total loss by car insurance company. States will not register cars that are flood damage and list the cars as salvage and not operable on the road.

[devbandy]

We got 10 inches of rain within few hours in Calumet city, IL south suburb of Chicago last week. It was terrible.

[APAstronaut]

Folks, a civil engineer here who saw an interesting comment. The capacity of the water drainage system was exceeded by the record rainfall. It needs to be updated for the climate change.

[drivingphoenix]

Wow, I've never seen NYC like this before. Don't walk in that water, don't drive in it. Stay safe.

[jerrywaldner]

Our Lord is washing NY clean from all its filt

[DavieMDianco]

This is happening all over the world now 😢