NBC News (September 3)
“The weather records for the New York City metropolitan area fell almost as quickly as the rain Wednesday night. The National Weather Service issued its first flash flood emergency ever for the city, and in Central Park, 3.2 inches of rain fell in an hour, setting a record. Newark, New Jersey, matched it, getting 3.2 inches of rain in an hour. Wednesday was the wettest day on record in Newark, with total rainfall of 8.4 inches…. Both cities experienced 1-in-500-year rainfall events. The result was one of the deadliest and most destructive flash flood events to hit the tri-state area, with at least 41 people dead by Thursday evening.”
Tags: 1-in-500-year, Central Park, Deadliest, Destructive, Emergency, Flash flood, New Jersey, Newark, NYC, Rain, Rainfall, Records, Weather
Institutional Investor (December 28)
“Every reader of Institutional Investor has suffered the indignities of La Guardia, JFK, or Newark airports — and most of them clicked on this feature by Leanna Orr explaining why U.S. airports are so very, very bad.” Not only was the article on the deplorable state of U.S. airports the magazine’s most-read article in 2017, it appears to be Institutional Investor’s most read article of all time.
Tags: Airports, Bad, Deplorable, Indignities, JFK, La Guardia, Most-read, Newark, U.S.
