The nor\u2019easter took the Big Apple by storm \u2014 again.<\/p>\n
A 1-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl were among four people hurt by a falling tree<\/a> in Brooklyn, it surfaced Sunday \u2014 as round two of the region\u2019s deadly weekend storm<\/a> battered the city.<\/p>\n The wet-and-wild storm sent hapless ocean fish swimming through driveways and hungry seagulls diving for dinner in city streets \u2014 while prompting a waterlogged NYPD cop to deem it the worst flooding in his Queens neighborhood since 2012\u2019s Hurricane Sandy.\u00a0<\/p>\n A tree that fell and crushed a car is seen at 154-29 159th Avenue in Flushing, Queens, on Sept. 27, 2026. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, there\u2019s horseshoe crabs all the way here up to Broad Channel Drive,\u201d said rubber-boot-wearing off-duty Officer Matt Langdon, 48, standing in the water pooled outside his Beach 84th Street house.<\/p>\n \u201cI moved here to Far Rockaway when I was 10, and this is the worst it\u2019s been since Sandy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur crawl space is flooded up to the joists,\u201d the cop told The Post on Sunday. \u201cAt its highest, it was coming up to my thigh, it was 2-and-a-half-feet deep at my house. My kids are stuck in the house.\u201d<\/p>\n Millions of New Yorkers hunkered down as the storm unrelentingly continued to pummel the area<\/a> since Saturday with inches of soaking rain, tempestuous winds and rising floodwaters.<\/p>\n Nearly 40,000 people across the Empire State on Sunday morning were left without power, including 19,800 alone in Suffolk County on Long Island, according PowerOutage.us.<\/a><\/p>\n A whopping 3.16 inches of rain fell in Howard Beach, Queens, with most city neighborhoods seeing at least an inch since Saturday, National Weather Service data show.<\/p>\n Up to 56 mph winds were recorded in JFK Airport in Queens, with Midtown seeing gusts as high as 47 mph over the storm\u2019s two days, according to the weather service.<\/p>\n The punishing winds felled scores of trees citywide, including one that killed beloved NYCHA repairman Leighton Brown<\/a>, 56, on Saturday.<\/p>\n Four other New Yorkers \u2014 including the little boy and girl \u2014 were also nearly flattened by another falling tree Saturday in Kelly Park Playground in Homecrest, Brooklyn, police said.<\/p>\n The tree struck a 40-year-old woman and 41-year-old woman in addition to the kiddies when it crashed down around 5:30 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n Miraculously, all four were left with minor injuries.<\/p>\n The baby suffered a cut to his cheek, the little girl was left with a broken arm, the 40-year-old woman had a head and wrist injury and and the 41-year-old hurt her head, authorities said.<\/p>\n The near-miss coincided with a \u201cmissing\u201d Long Island swimmer who turned out to be alive and well.<\/p>\n The still-unidentified swimmer<\/a> sparked fears Saturday when he was spotted jumping \u2014 and apparently vanishing \u2014 into 18-foot waves <\/a>near Field 3 on Fire Island\u2019s western tip.<\/p>\n But after learning he was the subject of a search off Robert Moses State Park, the man contacted authorities to inform them he was fine, according to a joint statement from New York State Police and New York State Park Police.<\/p>\n \u201cThe individual was located alive and well, and no further assistance from the public is needed at this time,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n Beyond dangers of life-and-limb, the storm also yielded downright surreal scenes across the city.<\/p>\n Bewildered Queens mom Fadela, 40, said she woke up Sunday morning to find fish swimming in her driveway.<\/p>\n \u201cLook at the little fish!\u201d said Fadela, 40. \u201cThe fish swimming in the driveway, a whole crew of the little ones! Look! This is a first for us.\u201d<\/p>\n A happy seagull also swooped down apparently to try to catch fish swimming along a flooded Far Rockaway street Sunday, video taken by The Post showed.<\/p>\n The seagull\u2019s dive was unsuccessful, as the shorebird\u2019s feet were empty as it lofted back above the water.<\/p>\n NYPD Officer Matt Langdon walks with his girlfriend along Beach 84th St. and Beach Channel Drive in the Far Rockaways on Sept. 27, 2026. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n The fishing expedition unfolded Sunday as water inundated Beach 84th Street and Beach Channel Drive.<\/p>\n The flood not only brought schools of bait fish onto what\u2019s normally dry land but also prehistoric-looking horseshoe crabs.<\/p>\n Garbage cans, space heaters and other human-made debris were swept up by the deluge, too.<\/p>\n Wicked wind in New Jersey meanwhile sent some smelly objects on the go.<\/p>\n Flooding at Beach 84th Street and Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway in Queens. Lone Pine Press<\/p>\n Four runaway portable toilets were spotted rolling across a parking lot in Metlife Stadium, viral video showed.<\/p>\n \u201cHeads up!\u201d a man is heard yelling in the footage as the johns barreled into another man\u2019s path outside the stadium.<\/p>\n