{"id":301877,"date":"2026-07-21T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301877\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:16:34","slug":"hoboken-daxbot-robots-rescued-from-floodwaters-but-why-were-there-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301877\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoboken &#8216;Daxbot&#8217; Robots Rescued From Floodwaters, But Why Were There Floods?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;10 years ago, after Hurricane Sandy, we were told things would improve,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Instead, we have dealt with flooding here almost every single year since. Last year, the North Hudson Sewerage Authority started a major project to address this, but as you can see from yesterday, nothing has actually changed\u2014we are still dealing with the exact same severe water buildup and infrastructure failures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A city spokesperson explained on Monday, &#8220;On Saturday, the city experienced an intense rainfall event, with a peak rainfall rate of over 2 inches an hour falling during high tide at peak intensity. For context, low-lying areas of Hoboken can begin to experience roadway flooding when rainfall exceeds approximately 0.8 inches per hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;10 years ago, after Hurricane Sandy, we were told things would improve,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Instead, we have dealt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-301877","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\/301877","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=301877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}