{"id":239421,"date":"2026-05-21T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239421\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:23:09","slug":"queens-drivers-push-through-flooding-after-intense-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239421\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Drivers Push Through Flooding After Intense Rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:High temperatures;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2057206439731405251?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">High temperatures<\/a> gave way to severe thunderstorms in the New York City area on Wednesday, May 20, triggering flash flooding across in Queens, officials <a data-ylk=\"slk:confirmed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/partnerservices.nws.noaa.gov\/products\/cache\/141-2026\/LSROKX\/fe3df8fbcf61cadf5813385ccbee7b46\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage filmed by MD Golam Murshed shows motorists and bicyclists navigating the intense flooding on Jamaica Avenue in Queens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWho has seen rain like this in New York City?\u201d Murshed wrote on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2059807484565217\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/partnerservices.nws.noaa.gov\/products\/cache\/141-2026\/LSROKX\/fe3df8fbcf61cadf5813385ccbee7b46\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it received numerous reports of flooding, downed trees, lightning strikes, and hail from New York and Connecticut during the severe storms. Credit: MD Golam Murshed via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High temperatures gave way to severe thunderstorms in the New York City area on Wednesday, May 20, triggering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5998,93579,9,24,63,122,124,123,78238,79546,21183],"class_list":["post-239421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-facebook","tag-golam-murshed","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-severe-storms","tag-severe-thunderstorms","tag-the-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}