New York has struggled with delaying rains. Parts of the metro were flooded, completely chaos broke out in road traffic.
Various metro stations were flooded on Tuesday evening and the traffic had to be fully adjusted. There were long traffic jams on important traffic axes and traffic was temporarily paralyzed. The airports John F. Kennedy, Laguardia and Newark delayed all the rooms temporarily.
The governor of the state of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, called the emergency situation in different provinces and asked the residents to stay at home. Rescue services had to free different drivers from their cars caught by the water. The States Virgina, Maryland and Pennsylvania were also affected by the Storm and Virginia published a warning for the flooding for Virginia. Offer was initially not reported.
According to the weather service, between 38 and 45 liters of rain per square meter of almost two hours in some parts of New York, up to 150 liters per square meter locally were measured in New Jersey. The sewer system was not on the enormous amounts of water.
Discussion about dealing with climate change
The storm brought the subject again on the agenda of how urban spaces can be prepared for the effects of climate change and the corresponding extreme weather events. The New York infrastructure must be urgently modernized to be on this “new climate reality”, the democratic candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani in online service X.
Source: Krone
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