{"id":239539,"date":"2026-05-21T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239539\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:00:43","slug":"brooklyn-residents-navigate-deep-floodwaters-following-severe-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239539\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Residents Navigate Deep Floodwaters Following Severe Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Severe thunderstorms;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\/2057092972911411317?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Severe thunderstorms<\/a> struck the New York City area on Wednesday, May 20, leading to <a data-ylk=\"slk:flash flooding;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\">flash flooding<\/a> in several boroughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage filmed by Grant Conversano shows motorists and pedestrians navigating deep floodwaters in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) <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 in New York and Connecticut during the severe storms. Credit: Grant Conversano via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms struck the New York City area on Wednesday, May 20, leading to flash flooding in several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,15353,93619,9,24,63,78238,79546,21183],"class_list":["post-239539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-flash-flooding","tag-grant-conversano","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/239539","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=239539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}