The shocking images of New York underwater

Tropical storm Elsa, which caused torrential rains New-York, United States, appealed to the inhabitants of this big city Jet skis to get around, in addition to forcing them through subway stations infested with rats and rainwater that reached the waist of users.

Electrical storms caused generalized flash floods throughout the city, with amounts of water reaching up to the waist New York subway users because the Washington Heights subway station was flooded.

Maximum sustained winds from the storm peaked at around 50 miles per hour, Passing by New York and Long Island, the National Hurricane Center announced in an 8 a.m. update this Friday.

Several routes in the Bronx Yes Manhattan they had to be closed this Friday and rains of up to 6 inches are expected in some areas. A A Bronx resident was seen using a jet ski to cross a street completely underwater.

After reaching the southeast of United States, Elsa He headed north and started to beat New York this Friday morning. The storm has already caused multiplex injuries and at least one death in Florida and Georgia this week, according to newspaper data. Daily mail.

There was some inconvenience on nearby train lines on Friday, with slight delays on the line Harlem, north of the city, and service to Oyster Bay from Long Island Rail Road has been discontinued, by falling trees.

So, on the Major Deegan Freeway in the Bronx, the NYPD Strategic Response Group was deployed Thursday to rescue motorists whose vehicles stalled due to the collection of large amounts of water on the streets.

Authorities used a truck designed to transport crowd control barriers, with which the police new York They rescued several stranded motorists and loaded them onto the platform of the truck to cross the flood waters. These rescues were carried out near 179th Street in the neighborhood of University heights.

During this time, several metro stations of Manhattan they also suffered severe flooding. In the neighborhood of Washington Heights, Station 1 at 157th Street was submerged in deep water.

A video posted on social networks shows a woman entering the metro station, entering the dirty and garbage-filled water to catch up with an oncoming train, while holding a bag that he carries on his head, to avoid getting wet.

Another of the stations that suffered flood damage was Penn and the Metropolitan Transit Agency noted that train service was suspended between Inwood-207 Street and 181 Street “due to excessive water accumulating in the track near Dyckman Street”.

“The teams are actively tackling the flooding problems at our stations. We have reinforced the stations in the flooded coastal areas, but when the streets are flooded, the water will always flow downhill, ”the agency said in a statement.

“Please be careful and do not enter flooded stations while our teams are working to resolve this issue”added dependency.

The main airports in the city of new York experience significant delays as storms progress, and inbound traffic is interrupted until bad weather passes. The game of American football, Put against the Pittsburgh Pirates was another victim of bad weather, with the 7:10 p.m. game postponed to Friday.

Friday night’s game is also at risk as Tropical Storm Elsa descends the east coast.

The meteorologists They predict that Elsa’s tropical force winds will hit New York City on Friday afternoon.

“Tropical Storm Elsa, which is currently traversing eastern North Carolina this afternoon, will continue to bring tropical storm force winds and heavy rain to parts of the mid-Atlantic this evening and to parts of the Atlantic Ocean. parts of the northeast through Friday, ”the National Weather Service said. in a bulletin Thursday.

“From eastern North Carolina to northern New England, total precipitation of 2 to 4 inches is possible, with locally higher amounts, which could lead to many instances of flash floods and flooding. urban, ”he added.

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