{"id":299798,"date":"2026-07-19T01:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T01:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:51:49","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-severe-thunderstorms-flood-streets-businesses-across-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299798\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Severe Thunderstorms Flood Streets Businesses Across New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Violent thunderstorms triggered flash flooding across New York City on Saturday, leaving parts of neighborhoods underwater.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings throughout the day and cautioned that flooding in some areas could become life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The intersection of North 10th Street and Roebling Street in Williamsburg quickly filled with water as heavy rain overwhelmed the area.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">At My Sight Eyecare, owner Diana Pan said floodwaters outside rose so high that customers could not leave through the front door and had to exit through the back.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really scary when you&#8217;re in the office and your customers are here, and we don&#8217;t know how to get them out safely,&#8221; Pan said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Pan added that flooding has become a recurring problem, damaging her business several times a year and costing thousands of dollars in repairs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She is urging the city to address the underlying cause of the flooding.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Violent thunderstorms triggered flash flooding across New York City on Saturday, leaving parts of neighborhoods underwater. The National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-299798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299798","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=299798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}