Post by musicradio77 on Oct 14, 2005 19:28:42 GMT -5
By SCOTT MICHELS
and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Rain, rain, go away - maybe it will by tomorrow.
Soggy New Yorkers suffered through another day of pond-size puddles and saturated shoes yesterday - and more torrents are expected to whip the city today.
"I'm not happy about this," said Hector Chorlotten, 51, as he waited for his son on waterlogged Fordham Road in the Bronx. "Everywhere you go in the city, it's horrible."
The deluge set another record for the date yesterday, with 2.38 inches falling in Central Park. That pushed this month's total so far to 11.34 inches, making it the third-wettest October on record. The rainiest October was in 1903, when 13.31 inches fell in the city.
An additional inch or more of rain is expected to drench the city today before the clouds start to break a bit tomorrow.
"It's raining, and it's going to keep on raining," said Brian Ciemnecki of the National Weather Service.
That wasn't what Vivian Edwards wanted to hear. She spends her days shuttling among offices across the city, and those trips have been transformed into umbrella-bending slogs.
"It's disgusting," said Edwards, 58, of the Bronx. "I feel like I'm in a hurricane."
Getting out of town was a nightmare yesterday, with delays of up to three hours at Newark Airport, more than two hours at LaGuardia and about 40 minutes at Kennedy.
Hugh Pritchard, 37, of the lower East Side made the mistake of leaving home without an umbrella. When the skies opened, he had to dash into a neighborhood store and beg for a plastic garbage bag.
"When I left, it wasn't raining too hard," he said, poking his arms through his makeshift raincoat. "Hopefully, this'll be enough to get me home."
The unrelenting rain, and the Yom Kippur holiday, spelled another slow day for many merchants as shoppers stayed dry - and off the streets.
"It's been terrible. Just look at this," said Chilsung Bae, 53, waving at his empty Queens clothing store. "No one's come in all day."
If there was a silver lining, it was at coffee shops, which enjoyed big business as cold and wet pedestrians sought refuge.
"We flourish in this kind of weather," Jake Hansard, 28, said at Lotus Lounge on the lower East Side. "Everyone wants a nice cup of hot coffee on a day like this."
and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Rain, rain, go away - maybe it will by tomorrow.
Soggy New Yorkers suffered through another day of pond-size puddles and saturated shoes yesterday - and more torrents are expected to whip the city today.
"I'm not happy about this," said Hector Chorlotten, 51, as he waited for his son on waterlogged Fordham Road in the Bronx. "Everywhere you go in the city, it's horrible."
The deluge set another record for the date yesterday, with 2.38 inches falling in Central Park. That pushed this month's total so far to 11.34 inches, making it the third-wettest October on record. The rainiest October was in 1903, when 13.31 inches fell in the city.
An additional inch or more of rain is expected to drench the city today before the clouds start to break a bit tomorrow.
"It's raining, and it's going to keep on raining," said Brian Ciemnecki of the National Weather Service.
That wasn't what Vivian Edwards wanted to hear. She spends her days shuttling among offices across the city, and those trips have been transformed into umbrella-bending slogs.
"It's disgusting," said Edwards, 58, of the Bronx. "I feel like I'm in a hurricane."
Getting out of town was a nightmare yesterday, with delays of up to three hours at Newark Airport, more than two hours at LaGuardia and about 40 minutes at Kennedy.
Hugh Pritchard, 37, of the lower East Side made the mistake of leaving home without an umbrella. When the skies opened, he had to dash into a neighborhood store and beg for a plastic garbage bag.
"When I left, it wasn't raining too hard," he said, poking his arms through his makeshift raincoat. "Hopefully, this'll be enough to get me home."
The unrelenting rain, and the Yom Kippur holiday, spelled another slow day for many merchants as shoppers stayed dry - and off the streets.
"It's been terrible. Just look at this," said Chilsung Bae, 53, waving at his empty Queens clothing store. "No one's come in all day."
If there was a silver lining, it was at coffee shops, which enjoyed big business as cold and wet pedestrians sought refuge.
"We flourish in this kind of weather," Jake Hansard, 28, said at Lotus Lounge on the lower East Side. "Everyone wants a nice cup of hot coffee on a day like this."