We see people with water up to their waists, somehow crossing a blackish pool to reach the docks.
“Lines 1 and A have really taken a hit, with lots of flooding at stations“, acknowledged Thursday evening Sarah Feinberg, patron of the MTA, New York public transport authority, during a press briefing.
Some major roads, especially in the Bronx, have been temporarily closed, disrupting traffic when leaving offices. New York police have tweeted images where they are seen rescuing motorists stuck in the water.
Floods in metro stations
The NWS warned of possible new flooding by Friday morning, with the expected arrival on the northeast of heavy rains brought by storm Elsa, which came from Florida.
Despite work undertaken to fortify the city in the face of flooding since Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 – which killed 44 people and paralyzed the American economic capital for days – New York, a city surrounded by water, remains very vulnerable to flooding, the frequency of which is set to increase with climate change.
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Several officials, including Eric Adams, president of Brooklyn and big favorite for the November municipal election since winning the Democratic primary this week, called Thursday evening for urgent investment to strengthen infrastructure.
“Extreme weather events like this are not going away“warned one of his primary opponents, Kathryn Garcia, who oversaw the pumping of the waters after Sandy.”Invest in strategies to protect the city“.
Invest in strategies to protect the city
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