A powerful rainstorm hammered New York City on Monday evening, flooding streets in Brooklyn and Staten Island and downing trees in the metro area.
The thunderstorm moved into the city soon after 6 p.m., packing torrential downpours after two days of upper-90-degree heat this weekend and temps in the high 80s on Monday.
In Brooklyn, video shows a fearless pedestrian crossing a street soaked in knee-high water in Williamsburg Monday evening.
The unidentified woman, shielding her head from the rain with an umbrella, crosses Wallabout Street and Throop Avenue as filled garbage bags float in the flooded streets and lightning crashes in the sky, the video shows.
Watch this brave New Yorker walk (swim) across a flooded street in #Williamsburg #Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/mwRHd32fyg
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) July 22, 2019
Flooding on Carroll Street in Brooklyn:
Carroll Street in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/5E4ytiEBmy
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) July 23, 2019
and no damaged sustained
May we have gishmei brocha
Walking or driving into floodwaters is a very dangerous thing to do. At any time the flood can increase suddenly and wash you away. Many have died like this
Please don’t call dangerous behavior brave.. people need to understand the dangers