New York flooded as city’s infrastructure struggles to cope with changing climate

New York flooded as city’s infrastructure struggles to cope with changing climate

People “are shoehorned into every available space” in the Big Apple, so heavy rainfall poses a very real danger to a city not built to survive it, as the latest deluge shows. The drainage system underneath its iconic streets can’t cope with more than two inches of rain per hour. The intensity of the downpour…