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Flash flooding caused by relentless heavy rains that soaked western Pennsylvania spurred numerous rescues and evacuations in the region, but no injuries were reported. The National Weather Service ...
Flooding 1 to 2 feet deep affects some "coastal "roads and low lying areas from Revere and Winthrop through Boston to Hull, Braintree and Quincy," the weather service predicted when the warning ...
Traffic hit a standstill earlier in the day on a stretch of the FDR Drive, a major artery along Manhattan's east side. ... Flooding also forced the closure of one of the airport’s three ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly known as the FDR Drive, is a controlled-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.It starts near South and Broad Streets, just north of the Battery Park Underpass, and runs north along the East River to the 125th Street / Robert F. Kennedy Bridge interchange, where it becomes Harlem River Drive.
FDR Drive was built along the East River shore in the 1930s using embankments and pilings. East River Park was built on landfill. In December 2019, the New York City Council voted to approve the controversial $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project, [17] involving the park's complete demolition and subsequent renovation. [18] [19]
Oakdale Borough was incorporated in 1892. [4] On May 18, 1918, a TNT explosion in a local chemical factory killed 200 people. [5] On September 17, 2004, Oakdale was devastated by a flood resulting from the rain brought by the remnants of category 5 Hurricane Ivan.
“Please understand this flooding is serious,” the department wrote in a Friday Facebook,post, adding: “Do not drive into flooded waters or around barricades. If you find yourself trapped ...
An extension of the East River Drive (by now renamed the FDR Drive [178]) to the future Battery Park Underpass and Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was approved in 1949. [179] Eventually, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel was also slated to connect to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to Staten Island. [180]