The floods claimed the most lives in the Queens neighborhood, east of Manhattan. Two families were trapped by the extreme speed with which water poured into the houses. New York was not ready for this. 150 million liters of water fallen from the sky in less than two hours and the authorities’ admission of helplessness. The latter admit that it is in the streets that the city is vulnerable. Indeed, with 1,200 km2 of concrete and asphalt, there is no longer a trace of earth to absorb water in the streets. In 300 years of construction, bitumen has become the rule and grass the exception. New York has built its own trap with infrastructure incompatible with the climate challenges that lie ahead. At one of the most renowned weather forecasting institutes in the United States, they estimate that neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn could be flooded every month within 30 years. It is therefore in these places that we must concentrate our efforts to create new infrastructures. The rest of the report in the video above.
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