NYC to hire forecaster, beef up warnings after Ida flooding

[rangerrebew]

September 28, 2021
NYC to hire forecaster, beef up warnings after Ida flooding

by Michelle L. Price
Credit: CC0 Public Domain

New York City is planning to hire a private weather forecaster, install more drainage features and issue earlier and more aggressive warnings to residents under a new plan to respond to heavy rainfall like the deadly deluge Hurricane Ida dropped on the city earlier this month.

At least 50 people from Virginia to Connecticut , including 13 in New York City, die d this month when the remnants of Hurricane Ida inundated the Northeast. Rainwater trapped hundreds of cars on submerged waterways, deluged subway stations, and stalled trains and flooded basement apartments, turning them into deadly traps.

At its most intense, the storm dropped 3.15 inches (8 centimeters) of rain within an hour over New York City, overwhelming an aging sewer system designed to handle roughly half that.

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-nyc-hire-beef-ida.html

[Kamaji]

They'd be better off spending the money to update the actual infrastructure, like the sewers and storm drains.

[rangerrebew]

I didn't know having your own forecaster and beefing up warnings would make hurricanes less intense or reduce the flooding!  What a brilliant strategy by komrade de Blasio to spend much more money on expert opinion.  Next the "expert" will probably be instructed to blame sea level rise from global warming as what is causing the flooding, not poor preparedness and construction.