New York City Is Not Handling This Rain Well Ahead of Elsa

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On Thursday night, New York City residents received an emergency alert from the National Weather Service warning of flash-flood conditions until around 7 p.m. But many commuters didn’t need a message on their phone to see the imperfect conditions around them. With nowhere for the heavy rain to go amid all the concrete, water poured into major streets and at least one subway station. Other, stranger conditions were seen as well:

Multiple videos were taken at the 157th Street station, where a pond-size puddle collected at one of the entrances:

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