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NYC flooding traps drivers, closes highways, grounds flights
Clearview Expressway drivers trapped in waist-high water. Ground stop at LaGuardia, JFK, Newark until 5PM. Up to 2.5 inches of rain already fallen.
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Torrential rain and thunderstorms hit New York City on Saturday, triggering flash flood warnings that shut highways, stranded drivers, and disrupted air travel across the region.
Heavy downpours started late in the morning and rose quickly on the Clearview Expressway in Queens. Officials rescued people from vehicles submerged up to their windows. The Long Island Expressway lost lanes in both directions near 188th Street, also in Queens. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway closed temporarily as conditions worsened.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said severe thunderstorms were hitting across the city and that much of it was under a flood advisory. “Don’t risk your safety in these dangerous conditions,” he said.