The heavy rain overnight brought with it some intense flash flooding. The city felt it just about everywhere. KevRincon has more from hard-hit Rego Park, Queens, where it didn't take much rain to cause financial strain.
"All my goods are like wet. The whole store is messed up," said Karim Budhwani, owner of BBS Supplies.
Budhwani said keeps most of his beauty supply inventory underground, and on Tuesday morning water poured in.He's now left cleaning up a mess he didn't bargain for. "My basement is flooded. My store got pretty much damaged again as what happened like last year," Budhwani said."This is not a flood zone, but now it's getting worse," Budhwani said."The whole building got flooded, so I gotta clean the whole thing from front to back now," a maintenance worker named Brad said."Well, our basement is flooded and we got a big mess. It's sewage water," Rego Park resident Bill Yu.
The flooding wasn't just in Rego Park. In other parts of Queens, cars got stuck along an underpass on Cooper Avenue and in Flushing the waters left roads unpassable.said the city would do more in the way of flood prevention, but many in Queens say those investments need to made faster.
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