Stories from the flood
Photo: Justin Lane/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock There were some warnings yesterday afternoon about the storm headed to New York: the sky turned steel-gray, emails from utility providers alerted people of possible outages, and amber illuminated signs over the freeways and bridges warned of rain and flooding. But after a summer of record rainfalls, no one seemed to be on high alert. Hurricane Henri had come and gone — what was another tropical storm? But at 9 p.m.
“I was operating the train, and everything was fine. There was a lot of rain outside, so there was some flooding. But when I got to 28th Street, it was a whole different ball game. A monsoon was coming out of the platform—like Niagara Falls over there. It was coming right from the platform ground. It was so bad, I couldn’t tell if it was coming from the floor or out of the wall. The first thing I thought was, I can’t go through that, and I can’t back up the train.
“I couldn’t see clearly. It was very dark and I thought it was just a little bit of water pooling there, like usual,” she said. “I freaked out and did not know what to do until I saw the water kept pouring into the car. The water was up to the dashboard.” “I was home with my brother and mother last night, and around 9:30 we started seeing rivers forming on the streets and the sidewalks. Some neighbors were already saying, ‘Oh my God, the basements are starting to fill up in my house,’ and we were like, ‘No way!’ We didn’t think it was gonna be that bad. We live in a three-story house that my parents own, and rent out the first floor, but we have a basement that we use to watch movies and do family stuff there.
“I love chaos, so I was like ‘We should walk.’ The rain was calm until we got up on the Williamsburg Bridge, and then the wind was absolutely bananas, and then the rain started up. On Delancey there were people in torrential downpour trying to hail cars. Of course, no one was pulling over. The rest of the people were like ‘Fuck it, we’re walking,’ and they had amazing contraptions, plastic bags on parts of their body. All of that blew away—like this man with bags on his legs.
“We usually get $3 to $5 from the DoorDash delivery app per order, plus around $3 or $4 in tip from the clients. Sometimes the app gives us $2 extra per delivery when the weather’s bad, but not yesterday. The clients should give us more tips, yes — but, you know, there are really understanding clients, but there are others who don’t care about what kind of weather we’re facing. Even if it’s snowing, they order their food, and that’s it.
Keeping Passengers Calm While Raw Sewage Seeps Into The Bus Evonne Pearson, 53, is a bus driver on the B60 route who lives in Springfield Gardens. “When we got to the lobby, there were 60 people or so. It was packed. So I’m asking, What happened? When we looked out on the street and walked a little closer, we saw the cars floating like toys in a bathtub, crashing into each other and everything. My friend said she’d left the building because she was sitting in her apartment and felt like the walls were shaking, like there was felt like an earthquake. People started texting each other to come downstairs.
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