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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.
When the train doors opened, "quite a lot of water came in, so almost all of us stood up on the seats," a passenger told Newsweek.
Severe flash flooding across the tri-state area on Monday caused subway delays and road closures across the Big Apple and pushed New Jersey to declare a state of emergency. All five boroughs and Nassau County are under a flash flood warning through midnight.
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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.
The heat advisory includes parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, where two people died in flooding.
Two people were killed in New Jersey during flash flooding as severe storms lashed the New York City area on Monday night into Tuesday, submerging cars and flooding subway stations.