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Today and everyone was pitching in and one of the streets about two blocks away, they had water that looked way deeper, chest deep, and cars are inundated and today we walked down there and there was still a bit of mud but other than that, no water left and everything was pretty cleaned up, unsurprisingly. was pretty cleaned up, surprisingly. we see the images and meteorologists are calling this a once in a half a century event. you re a long time new york resident. do you think new york city s infrastructure was ready for this weather? i think new york learned a lot during hurricane sandy and i think a strength for hurricane was never something i expected but we learned a little bit each
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In the operation is going. as soon as the doors opened to my subway stop, i immediately heard this rush of water that sounded like niagara falls, it sounded like a natural waterfall and i turned around and knowsjust an enormous crush of water. what s the situation on the ground today? how has that changed? are things a little bit better? in our neighbourhood in particular in bushwick in brooklyn, it was almost eerily calm today. the weather outside is beautiful at the moment, which is very jarring after last night. i know there was a volunteer community clean up working in the neighbourhood