The soggy Apple.<\/p>\n
The five boroughs were yet again swimming in floodwaters Thursday evening after being walloped by heavy rain that clinched the city\u2019s wettest summer in five years. <\/a><\/p>\n Staten Island beared the brunt with wild video showing<\/a> drivers trapped in their cars when torrential rains \u2014 which brought 3.72 inches of precipitation \u2014 turned the borough\u2019s streets into rivers.<\/p>\n It\u2019s really quite obvious we\u2019re not investing enough to protect the city in the face of this rising threat from extreme weather,\u201d warned City Comptroller Mark Levine. Getty Images<\/p>\n The heavy rains were just one of several dozen flood events that soaked the Big Apple this summer, which Comptroller Mark Levine warned<\/a> will only get worse if the city\u2019s infrastructure isn\u2019t significantly upgraded.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how anyone who lives through this summer could still tell themselves we\u2019ve had no change in weather patterns. It\u2019s really quite obvious we\u2019re not investing enough to protect the city in the face of this rising threat from extreme weather,\u201d Levine told The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is real. And it\u2019s a trend that should worry us all.\u201d<\/p>\n