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Several NYC subway stations flooded on Monday night after rain drenched parts of the city, causing severe delays and even closures.
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The New Republic on MSNHow Trump is Ruining Your Subway CommuteRepublicans’ frantic project to end “woke” climate research has led them to axe funding aimed at helping mass transit cope with extreme weather events.
Another round of showers and thunderstorms moved across the Mid-Atlantic Tuesday after intense rain set off dangerous flash flooding from Virginia to New York on Monday, leaving at least two dead and prompting dozens of rescues as water overwhelmed roads and subways.
A state of emergency was declared in New Jersey after slow-moving thunderstorms unloaded a significant amount of rain, resulting in dangerous flash flooding across the Northeast into Monday night. At least 2 were killed.
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amNewYork on MSNFlood gates: NYC pols, transit gurus call for storm mitigation after Monday’s subway floodbathNYC politicians are reacting with concern, demanding that more needs to be done to keep commuters safe after several subway stations were pummeled with stormwater and sewage following Monday night’s torrential downpour.
Superstorm Sandy in 2012 prompted years of subway repairs and flood-fighting ideas, and some have been put into practice. In some places, transit officials have installed or are installing storm barriers at subway station entrances, seals beneath subway ...