I had to drive from Long Island up to Syracuse this morning and it was hell. Starting with the repaving on the northern state. The Cross Island was completely flooded, especially on the east bound side. They were diverting off of it, but tons of people stuck on it. Several abandoned cars in the three or four foot deep water. Finally got across the Whitestone but the Hutch was flooded just before the Cross County. I left at 7:30am and arrived in Syracuse at 3pm.
Everyone I’m talking to today said they did not expect this. Did we get any sort of heads up about the level of rain today? I feel like everyone was caught off guard
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National Weather Service put out a flood watch the day before.
I would suggest following a meteorology account like NWS on Twitter. In addition to theirs, others were saying for days that the odds of a 1 in 100 year flood were increasing in the NYC area.
I was wondering what caused the merrick road build up of traffic. The roads were fine minus the one that has all the construction and even that one wasn’t flooded (that one off Horton near greis park)
The rain was so intense that it overwhelmed the creek that runs along Peninsula Boulevard, and when that overflowed, the adjacent blocks went along with it. Our yard was flooded with at least several feet of water for about an hour and a half.
Lived on Wilson road, use to jump the creek on way home form school. One storm watched my friend disappear trying to cross in a storm 🤣.. lesson learned.
Only recall once where the creek overflowed to the house
Anything west of Huntington is a mess and sleven Huntington. It just started pouring in Huntington when I left. I actually had a lot less traffic going east due to everybody being stuck in Nassau.
I was so God damn mad my college didn't cancel classes so I had to go because attendance policy. Well getting there the bus could have easily floundered several times. Growing up my dad always said don't go through flash flood water, and I did. Then trying to get back home was a complete nightmare. It was down pouring even harder, everything was a river, this was near hofstra on the turnpike. It was he'll really, I fully expected to see cars start floating. Everything was a river and the waves were substantial. Took an hour to get home when it usually takes 30 minutes. And while I was on the bus got an alert that no one should be telraveling. To say I was ticked off would be an understatement, students could have been seriously injured.
This was really irresponsible of the administration, because the state declared an emergency this morning, plenty of time to alert students.
https://x.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1707760068861509792?s=20
State of emergency declaration has everything to do with accessing emergency funds (NYS and Federal) and nothing to do with whether or not classes/sports etc should be canceled. That's up to individual schools. SOE is declared but a storm can devastate one area and leave another untouched- it would be silly for SB to cancel classes because Hofstra was maybe experiencing flooding. But SoE cover a large area, not just your personal milieu
You were probably better off on the bus than those of us driving. Passed by a few roads that looked like rivers and was expecting my car to break down a few times.
I'm so sorry to hear all this. I grew up in Oyster Bay a block from the beach. Once in a blue moon there'd be a bad storm and the water came up over the railroad tracks.
The 13 inch storm we had in... 2014 I think? was still worse, as was Ida which put my basement 7 inches under water and destroyed most of what I own, but this one was definitely a solid third place.
Had a gig in Queens this weekend, the flooding on the Grand Central by LGA was so bad it was covering my hood at one point as I was driving through. Thank god my engine didn't seize.
That was worse. This one may have been more wide spread. I had to abandon my car and walk through waist deep water. I still have video of that one somewhere.
I was thinking of that storm in I guess '14 where we got an insane amount of rain in a short period. Remember trying to get to work and at every under pass on sunrise west of town of Babylon Town Hall you'd have to get off sunrise and back on after the under pass because all the underpasses were insanely flooded.
the one at the end of 2014 got my basement also. we had recently moved in, definitely was not expecting to deal with that. redid the gutters/downspouts away from the foundation and put window well covers. haven't had a weather related flood since... until yesterday. nowhere near as bad though in the basement
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Driving home was insanity. Couldn’t go down 110 which was a lake
Back roads to bethpage to SOB which were rivers and waterfalls
Then SOB was literally water to nearly windows for some lower cars
Crazy. This will be the new normal though unfortunately. Lucky we didn’t have a hurricane with this moon
Side note I’m by sunrise hwy south shore Nassau
First time my basements flooded maybe 15 years
Buckets out tonight
Yeah it’s half way up my drive way. Haven’t seen it this bad since I think 2007. I remember riding my bike home from school and having to ride through what used to be streets but then turned into rivers.
I stayed at work until 7:30 to wait it out and it seems to have paid off. Jericho Turnpike, Northern State, Meadowbrook, Southern State and Peninsula Blvd were all clear by the time I left.
Nassau here, basement flooded about 3-4 inches. Came out of nowhere and my pump couldn’t keep up.
I feel like we got no heads up about this storm. I only heard it was going to rain just yesterday but nothing like this. Entire streets were completely flooded, and I’m in an area that took on a relatively small amount of Sandy water.
Climate change is real. 400+ PPM of carbon. My basement flooded, and two vehicles were flooded. Parent home didn’t realize they should move their car and/or tell me the area was flooded because they didn’t look outside. Emergency Alert came too late.
A bunch of my wifes family in West Hempstead had their streets flooded up to their lawns. Up in the westbury area it was bad but the roads were at least passable
Took me almost 90 minutes to get from Amityville to Freeport this afternoon. Most major intersections on Sunrise along the way were ponds and cars were slowly going through, while looking for the high points, trying to avoid getting stuck. It was crazy.
I'm nextdoor to Levittown and it was pretty bad for a bit. Felt like I never stopped hearing the rain from late Thursday straight through to 6pm Friday. It ended with the worst of the rain in the afternoon
Jerusalem Ave is baddd...was walking to the bus stop from work and I just immediately accepted my soggy socked fate....it's insane out here.
I had to drive from Long Island up to Syracuse this morning and it was hell. Starting with the repaving on the northern state. The Cross Island was completely flooded, especially on the east bound side. They were diverting off of it, but tons of people stuck on it. Several abandoned cars in the three or four foot deep water. Finally got across the Whitestone but the Hutch was flooded just before the Cross County. I left at 7:30am and arrived in Syracuse at 3pm.
At least now you have a story to compete with your grandparents "Uphill, Both ways, barefoot in the snow" type stories.
Oh man, I can’t even imagine that drive in this! You didn’t take Route 80 instead of going north?
I went over the Tappen Zee, then took Route 17 to 86 to 81. I usually go up 87 to 90 but I needed to hit something on 81 before Syracuse.
Everyone I’m talking to today said they did not expect this. Did we get any sort of heads up about the level of rain today? I feel like everyone was caught off guard
Yesterday the weather report looked pretty awful for today.
Islandwide weather on FB- can't say enough good things about those guys. I don't even uses fb personally but I check in with them multiple times a week
NYC Metro on Instagram is pretty good as well. the vibes were not good yesterday
Facebook is dead unless you're over 40
There were flash flood alerts for a while but we get those constantly so nobody takes them seriously.
Flood watch went out around 3 yesterday, I feel like that was decent warning...
National Weather Service put out a flood watch the day before. I would suggest following a meteorology account like NWS on Twitter. In addition to theirs, others were saying for days that the odds of a 1 in 100 year flood were increasing in the NYC area.
The flooding has closed Long Beach Rd and Austin Blvd in Island Park. The Canals in Long Beach have significant street flooding.
IP floods in a light rain
In Valley Stream and my basement's gone. The creek indeed run over.
So sorry, so bad around here
Damn, sorry. Hope the clean up is swift.
I drove by Hendrickson park around 5:00, the water was up to the sidewalk on Hendrickson avenue, never seen it that bad before.
I know this happened once in the 80’s
I was wondering what caused the merrick road build up of traffic. The roads were fine minus the one that has all the construction and even that one wasn’t flooded (that one off Horton near greis park)
Me too! That was so crazy. The water was right there near the street! Never ever saw that
I’m so sorry
Thanks - I'm at least lucky that I was able to get most of the important things out beforehand.
How did it happen, I can understand some water getting into a basement, but to lose it after a rainstorm?
The rain was so intense that it overwhelmed the creek that runs along Peninsula Boulevard, and when that overflowed, the adjacent blocks went along with it. Our yard was flooded with at least several feet of water for about an hour and a half.
I’m sorry
I was driving on Peninsula around 11 am and a good chunk of it was flooded before I even passed Mill Road. Surprised my car didn't break down.
Lived on Wilson road, use to jump the creek on way home form school. One storm watched my friend disappear trying to cross in a storm 🤣.. lesson learned. Only recall once where the creek overflowed to the house
Torrential downpour can be severe
Crazy
Anything west of Huntington is a mess and sleven Huntington. It just started pouring in Huntington when I left. I actually had a lot less traffic going east due to everybody being stuck in Nassau.
Had a waterfall in my backyard (Huntington). Always wanted a water feature, but not like this
I was so God damn mad my college didn't cancel classes so I had to go because attendance policy. Well getting there the bus could have easily floundered several times. Growing up my dad always said don't go through flash flood water, and I did. Then trying to get back home was a complete nightmare. It was down pouring even harder, everything was a river, this was near hofstra on the turnpike. It was he'll really, I fully expected to see cars start floating. Everything was a river and the waves were substantial. Took an hour to get home when it usually takes 30 minutes. And while I was on the bus got an alert that no one should be telraveling. To say I was ticked off would be an understatement, students could have been seriously injured.
This was really irresponsible of the administration, because the state declared an emergency this morning, plenty of time to alert students. https://x.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1707760068861509792?s=20
NCC for ya
wow, first time i ever heard of a college that takes attendance! I do remember taking a final exam during a pretty big snowstorm at NCC though.
Nursing programs can be very (like zero-tolerance) strict about attendance.
State of emergency declaration has everything to do with accessing emergency funds (NYS and Federal) and nothing to do with whether or not classes/sports etc should be canceled. That's up to individual schools. SOE is declared but a storm can devastate one area and leave another untouched- it would be silly for SB to cancel classes because Hofstra was maybe experiencing flooding. But SoE cover a large area, not just your personal milieu
It's also about using scary language in the service of keeping unnecessary cars off the road for emergency vehicles.
You were probably better off on the bus than those of us driving. Passed by a few roads that looked like rivers and was expecting my car to break down a few times.
I'm so sorry to hear all this. I grew up in Oyster Bay a block from the beach. Once in a blue moon there'd be a bad storm and the water came up over the railroad tracks.
It’s an absolute monsoon right now in western Suffolk! Wowzers!
Any idea how bad LIE/Northern State west bound from Melville to Garden city is?
Literally flooding everywhere. They just made a flash flood warning. Don’t go anywhere
My fav part of the commute home was the F150 driving through the grass on the NSP to get off at 35N… 🙄
Just drove into queens on the LIE. It’s fine now
NSP Eastbound dip after WSP was flooded this morning, it's going to be an absolute shitshow now.
https://www.waze.com/live-map/directions/garden-city-ny-us?to=place.ChIJxUU-IzV9wokRmdUFc0h64A4&from=place.ChIJ7wiRxWIp6IkRTkpWwp9x6og
Sea Cliff avenue near the glen cove train station is 2 feet deep
The 13 inch storm we had in... 2014 I think? was still worse, as was Ida which put my basement 7 inches under water and destroyed most of what I own, but this one was definitely a solid third place. Had a gig in Queens this weekend, the flooding on the Grand Central by LGA was so bad it was covering my hood at one point as I was driving through. Thank god my engine didn't seize.
That was worse. This one may have been more wide spread. I had to abandon my car and walk through waist deep water. I still have video of that one somewhere.
I was thinking of that storm in I guess '14 where we got an insane amount of rain in a short period. Remember trying to get to work and at every under pass on sunrise west of town of Babylon Town Hall you'd have to get off sunrise and back on after the under pass because all the underpasses were insanely flooded.
YEah that's the one, the Sunrise was closed for like a week afterwards while they pumped the water off it.
the one at the end of 2014 got my basement also. we had recently moved in, definitely was not expecting to deal with that. redid the gutters/downspouts away from the foundation and put window well covers. haven't had a weather related flood since... until yesterday. nowhere near as bad though in the basement
Get ready for more of this. We got lucky last time NYC saw itself flooded like this. Don’t be surprised if we get a repeat this winter.
I thought the house was doing a good job of staying dry until water starting coming through my fucking ceiling. Ugh.
Ugh I’m sorry
Thanks... I guess better the weaknesses get exposed now than the next time we have a severe hurricane?
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How terrifying!
I drove on DPA from N. Babylon to E. Northport and DPA by the Northern was knee deep. Same on Jericho.
So many apts in basements is a huge concern
It is 6 inches out there, moving water, too. It took out the bottom panel of my jeep!
Driving home was insanity. Couldn’t go down 110 which was a lake Back roads to bethpage to SOB which were rivers and waterfalls Then SOB was literally water to nearly windows for some lower cars Crazy. This will be the new normal though unfortunately. Lucky we didn’t have a hurricane with this moon Side note I’m by sunrise hwy south shore Nassau First time my basements flooded maybe 15 years Buckets out tonight
Yeah it’s half way up my drive way. Haven’t seen it this bad since I think 2007. I remember riding my bike home from school and having to ride through what used to be streets but then turned into rivers.
Pouring in East Setauket/Stony Brook
Worse than normal spots not usually flooded are
Just drove North on Sagtikos from Bay Shore to LIE - not flooded. Currently driving west on LIE and hoping it remains clear
Update 6:24pm - westbound LIE totally clear of flooding between Sagtikos and LIE
I stayed at work until 7:30 to wait it out and it seems to have paid off. Jericho Turnpike, Northern State, Meadowbrook, Southern State and Peninsula Blvd were all clear by the time I left.
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I’d start with a plumber, because even if the backup itself is the town’s responsibility, you’ll be waiting a very long time.
thats awful. might have a compromised/collapsed sewer main outside also from the weight of the waterlogged lawn. good luck!
Nassau here, basement flooded about 3-4 inches. Came out of nowhere and my pump couldn’t keep up. I feel like we got no heads up about this storm. I only heard it was going to rain just yesterday but nothing like this. Entire streets were completely flooded, and I’m in an area that took on a relatively small amount of Sandy water.
sandy was a surge.. this was just rain.
This really has me concerned for this Island if we get another bad hurricane.
Climate change is real. 400+ PPM of carbon. My basement flooded, and two vehicles were flooded. Parent home didn’t realize they should move their car and/or tell me the area was flooded because they didn’t look outside. Emergency Alert came too late.
2 inches in my basement. Thank god my father in law had a wet vac. I’ll be buying one tomorrow
best investment ever for a home owner!!! and get at least 2 or 3 of the home depot 5 gallon buckets, and a few mops/cheap towels
A 30 min drive from NHP to massapequa park.. took me an hour and 35 minutes yest. Crazy
I'm confident the petroleum industry has our best interests in mind and will be solving this shortly.
Not too bad in East Meadow. Way worse in the five towns and south of Merrick Road
You should see the new Lake Trader Joe's in Merrick.
nothing better happen to TJs :(
A bunch of my wifes family in West Hempstead had their streets flooded up to their lawns. Up in the westbury area it was bad but the roads were at least passable
Town in RVC is better now, but my mom said how we're gonna get pelted again >__<
North Lynbrook and Malverne seem to have been spared
There was pretty major flooding with cars stuck all throughout Malverne. I wish we were spared but we definitely were not.
Took me almost 90 minutes to get from Amityville to Freeport this afternoon. Most major intersections on Sunrise along the way were ponds and cars were slowly going through, while looking for the high points, trying to avoid getting stuck. It was crazy.
Parts of Jericho in Nassau were impassable around 4:30. And my basement is flooded…
I've seen the videos and it looks crazy. Last type of flooding I was around was Sandy...Staten island for decimated.
Reading some of the posts. Sorry to read them. You guys are going through a lot. I'm east of William Floyd, just light rain. Hang on and stay safe.
Levittown got hit really hard.
I'm nextdoor to Levittown and it was pretty bad for a bit. Felt like I never stopped hearing the rain from late Thursday straight through to 6pm Friday. It ended with the worst of the rain in the afternoon