Zero-content exaggeration like this is infuriating. Obviously, if you're in an area that got flooded, it may well be the worst thing you've experienced in years. One person cannot speak for a city of 8 million people.
Basically the entire subway and commuter rail serving millions of people was barely functional all day long, there was massive gridlock traffic because the highways flooded, many hours later three major road links out of the city (the Saw Mill, Hutchinson, and Bronx River parkways) remain closed to traffic, and there's widespread water damage to people's property–down the block from me cars floated out of the street and onto the sidewalk! Not great!
You must not have been in BK. 1/2/3, 4/5/6, N/Q/W/R all stopped running or partial service in BK. Local and express busses down in that area. Major streets shut down, including the ones around BK bridge. I spent 4 hours in traffic picking up my wife today. Also saw 4 accidents, bc drivers here seem to prefer driving more reckless in rain. If that's not "crazy bad", I don't know what it.
> Zero-content exaggeration like this is infuriating. Obviously, if you're in an area that got flooded, it may well be the worst thing you've experienced in years. One person cannot speak for a city of 8 million people.
Too many new yorkers have adopted this attitude of "its not that bad!" when it gets ugly here. I get it, I like the city (when its working) too, but I want the city to be better. I have been living or consistently visiting the city (and by "city", I mean all of NYC, not just Manhattan) since 2011. Thing have been getting worse, especially since covid. I have seen a video of people open cooking a roast pig on the sidewalk. NYC is 3rd world. The only thing keeping me here is my job that requires me to come into the office 3x/week.
Just because nothing happened to you doesn't mean nothing happened.
My understanding was that Manhattan didn't get hit bad but Brooklyn did. it's not just a few people who got flooded, it was entire schools, fire depts, parks, reservoirs, shops, etc.