Basons in New York: Just a few days after the floods swept Texas, on Monday evening (July 14) in the New York Metropolitan region of heavy rain in the New York Metropolitan area, causing lightning floods that crippled transport and flooded the metro.
Scary visual effects from Station 28. The streets showed that passengers were watching from the train as the water plunged into the station.
Other videos showed that passengers kneel in their seats to avoid the water on the train. Fuming Netizens took the X, one person indicating the situation “full flood” and questioning “how long until the system collapses completely?”
Affected roads in New Jersey
In New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced an emergency when the lightning flood of submerged cars and closed roads.
MTA Services delayed
Several metro stations were amazed by flood waters, which caused the Metropolitan Transport Office (MTA) to suspend or delay the service on multiple lines.
Metro-North also showed suspension on the part of the Harlem line and delay on the New Haven line because the flood waters were disrupted by the railway infrastructure.
The delay was also reported on the part of the state railway line due to serious weather.
MTA CEO says the city sewer system is impressed by rain
In an interview with ABC 7, CEO of Metropolitan Transport Authority Janno Lieber that the New York sewer system was amazed by rain and backed up to the metro tunnels and stations.
“What happened last night is something you know, reality in our system,” he said to Outlet, remarking that backup occurs when rainfall exceeds 1.75 inches of rain per hour.
He also said that in New York, the metro service has now been full, as well as the Long Island Railroad and Metro North Commuter Rail Service after hundreds of people worked overnight to restore operations.
“We worked with the city of New York to try to get them to increase the capacity of the system at these key points,” said MTA.
Two killed in the New York area
At least two people were killed on Monday evening in New Jersey in the middle of heavy rains, the Guardian reported and quoted the authorities.
The couple died in Plainfield, when there was a car in which they were swept into Cedar Brook during lightning floods.
(Tagstotranslate) New York Flood
