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A record amount of rain fell in parts of the city during a torrential 20-minute downpour on Thursday afternoon, leading to two deaths.
One 39-year-old man died as he attempted to rescue one of his two dogs from his flooded basement in Flatbush. The second, a 43-year-old man, was reportedly working in the boiler room of a Washington Heights apartment building when the basement flooded.
The flooding, which was preceded by a lone advisory from City officials through the Notify NYC emergency communications alert system, left cars floating in Brooklyn neighborhoods, Queens neighborhoods flooded, and trains (temporarily) snarled.