{"id":345371,"date":"2026-09-13T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345371\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T02:56:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nyc-officials-urge-residents-to-prepare-ahead-of-overnight-torrential-rain-possible-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345371\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nyc Officials Urge Residents To Prepare Ahead Of Overnight Torrential Rain Possible Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York City officials urged residents to prepare Saturday night ahead of overnight heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A flood watch went into effect across the five boroughs from Saturday night until Sunday noon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Magenta Street residents in the Bronx know just how quickly heavy rain can turn into flooding. Water filled the street during heavy rain back in August.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A resident called News 12 during that flooding and with another storm on the way, she says she&#8217;s not taking any chances. She said residents have to be home when it rains because when the debris comes into the driveways, it blocks the drain.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Over 50 safe overnight locations opened at public schools for city residents who live in basement apartments or flood prone areas.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials urge residents not wait until the water starts rise in order to act.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City officials urged residents to prepare Saturday night ahead of overnight heavy rain. A flood watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-345371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345371","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=345371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}