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People. the good news is since we didn t have a lot o of the damage all of the businesses reopening, city offices, people reporting back in to work and a lot of the restaurants sending out on twitter notices saying come on over for happy hour, we will have dinner, spend the day with us. even though we had to shut down because of the storm we want to get back open for business because there were so many businesses that had to close this weekend especially for the store your communities, they walked out on millions of dollars. might be a tiny bit of economic stimulus if folks are able to get out that will make the restaurants happy. folks will get unhappy quickly if we are out power in homes one to two weeks. that is a tough situation. reporter: it really is. people stocked up, i m sure they did throughout the entire eastern seaboard, the whole the corridor. ....
Record rainfall. we had 7 to 8 inches of rain on a lazy sunday morning. when he talked about the water tables higher now you throw this on top of it that s why you are seeing the records. look at the cars under water there. i saw people pulling their cars out of manhattan putting them into the parking grange areas along the hudson that go up a few floors to get them out of the way. the flooding is the beginning of what we are starting to learn in terms of damage. we ll keep on top of that. tropical storm irene is a big story in new england at this hour. molly line has that covered. we ll check back in with her. fox news weather center tracking the storm. latest storm projections, straight ahead. we ll be right back, with more. ....
Mayor. massive flooding from the storm inland flooding. we go big flooding in the spring when you get the snowmelt from the winter snows. here we are in the middle of the summer dealing with what probably is going to break records. anywhere you see the burgandy color that is flash flooding right now. pennsylvania, northern parts of new jersey, upstate new york. a lot of the state of vermont towards maine as well. big flooding concerns will continue. heaviest moving in across parts of northern new england not dealing with southern new england as much. still windy conditions. then, if you hear anybody talking about another tropical storm out there right now, bill, there is another one that formed this morning it is jose. not to be worried about. you are going to hear people say it and it is going to make people get concerned. it is not a factor. it is around areas of bermuda. it is not going to impact. ....
Crews working today to remove downed trees and limbs and the good news is nobody so far has been hurt. i did drive down ocean parkway this morning and there were no trees down in one segment. we we came back an hour later there was an enormous tree that had come down on the other side and people standing around, it had come down over some cars. no injuries. but let me remind you you when the ground is very wet the older trees absorb a lot of moisture and get heavier and without wind, without a lot of notice they can all of a sudden fall. nature is dangerous. pay attention. all if all, we are in pretty good shape because of the exhaustive steps i think we took that to prepare for whatever came our way. the very best city employees and first responders are going to work nonstop to make sure that through the storm and its aftermath we are safe and in fact this morning the fdny used three rescue boats to save 61 ....
Mandatory evacuation. now, right now as we see people enjoying the surf and enjoying the beach we have been watching people going up very close actually and taking pictures next to the crashing waves. not advised. there has been massive flooding along the streets that had waves lapping up against businesses that were boarded up and sandbagged before the storm. a redundant scene up and down long island as trees were splintering like tooth picks, taking down power lines and knocking out power to nearly half of long island s 1.1 million utility customers. the local fire chief here of long beach requested assistance from nassau county. thing ecktive has given him the help he needed to clean out the debris. national guard troops along the way to assist with the cleanout as well. the one good thing we can say about nassau county and the massive waves going on right now is there is going be a big sur of competition scheduled to take place next week. still going to take place next week as far ....