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Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall triggered flash flooding in New York City on Friday, disrupting subway service in the country's most populous city and turning many of its streets into small lakes...
A flash flood warning went into effect for New York City until midday as more than 2 inches (5.08 cm) of rain fell in some locations by Friday morning and 3 more inches possible within hours, the National WS eather Service said...
As much as 6 inches of rain fell in some locations, including Brooklyn, lower Manhattan and John F. Kennedy International Airport in the borough of Queens, said Zack Taylor a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.. "More rain is falling," Taylor said..
Some 18 million people in the New York metropolitan area and in other major cities along the East Coast were under flood warnings, watches and advisories from the weather service...
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