Inundation

The unexpected confluence of two smaller storms laid New York's subway system low today. Fortunately for me I was planning to stay home anyway, but many others, including children in schools whose ground floors flooded, weren't as lucky. This wasn't one of the named tropical storm-hurricanes whose progress we watch on the weather map days in advance, like Ida which wrought havoc here two years ago. Just the sort of sudden soaking which is the new norm, the summer news flashing with flood after flood.