Well, actually what they said was:
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...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING...
The National Weather Service in Upton has issued a Flash Flood Watch for portions of northeast New Jersey and southeast New York, including the following areas: In southeast New York, Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Northern Queens, Orange, Richmond (Staten Island), Rockland, Southern Nassau, Southern Queens, Southern Westchester, and Southwestern Suffolk from midnight EDT tonight through Monday morning.
An area of low pressure will develop along a frontal boundary to our south and pass just south and east of Long Island. Rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches an hour are possible and may lead to flash flooding the New York City metro and surrounding areas. Flash flooding will also be possible for portions of the Lower Hudson Valley.
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For you that means the effluent from the homeless, bums, illegals, and other upstanding citizens that Mayor Warren Wilhelm Jr. has decreed are entitled to use streets, sidewalks, doorways, and any other location of their liking as a latrine will all get washed into the storm drains. And ultimately to the Hudson or East Rivers temporarly improving the aroma of the area.
For me it means that my easement for the county ditch will again collect standing water..
Fluffy hopes you can swim.
We just got it here, about 3-1/2". I have to go back out in it to get Drama Queen and Sheldon from youth group.
For us it means big puddles at the street corners where the trash has flowed to block the grates that normally carry such puddles into the drainage system.
Not good for nice shoes, but better than when the snow melt does the same thing.