the northeast. it drowned us. close to 50 dead, still counting, still early numbers. that's in the northeast and mid-atlantic states. the question becomes why? too much, too soon. so much rain, record rainfall in many places, in a compressed period of just a few hours. for example, in new york city, a record three inches of rain in one hour. how much is that? the previous record, which stood for 100 years, was just over an inch. this record left wreckage. it was about this time last night that the sky started unleashing its fury, spawning at least eight tornadoes, dumping rain, triggering flash floods. new york city never had a flash flood emergency alert issued ever until now. almost the entire subway system knocked out at one point. came back different ways.