PSA 🔊 2”+ of rain falling in an hour over a heavily urbanized area will cause flash flooding almost anywhere. We saw it in New York City. We saw it in Atlanta. Debate infrastructure all you want, but no mayor controls rainfall rates.

@MathieuBlue The areas in Queens we are seeing are classic flood zones. Instead of building bike lanes and road diets/daylighting, we should be paying down NYC Water’s debts and re-investing in infrastructure improvements, not pet projects of transients.

@_ROTE_ “Classic flood zones” is the takeaway here.