Cars crawling through a foot of water on the Harlem River Drive. Straphangers wading through chest-high pools to get from subway platform to stairway. Water racing down Dyckman Street and pooling along Broadway in Upper Manhattan.
Several inches of rain dropped on parts of New York City Thursday evening, overwhelming the drainage system in those areas, which led to flooding and outflows of sewage into city rivers. Videos on social media chronicled the downpour that left some parts of the city drenched and others entirely untouched.
The cloudburst, as experts call such brief but intense deluges, is one kind of storm that the city can expect to see more of as climate change makes our weather more severe. And while the city has invested billions to update its infrastructure to avoid the resulting flooding, experts say that the city is still not fully prepared for the damage these storms will bring.
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