https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/headway/hoboken-floods.html
"The city of Hoboken, N.J., once a marshy outcropping that the Lenape inhabited
only seasonally, hugs the Hudson River. Three-quarters of it occupies a flood
plain. It is, in other words, a water magnet. Some scientists have forecast
that, with rising seas, a big chunk of Hoboken will be Atlantis by 2100.
But for more than a decade this city of some 60,000 residents has been trying
to thwart fate — and it is making progress. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy left
Hoboken underwater and without electricity for days, causing more than $110
million worth of property damage. The city had to call in the National Guard.
In September, another storm socked the city. Though it wasn’t nearly as severe
as Sandy, it still dumped more than 3.5 inches of rain on a single Friday
morning, 1.44 inches of it during the hour that coincided with high tide. Early
in the day, television crews filmed flooded intersections. City officials
declared a state of emergency.
Except this time was different. Across the river, the same storm drowned
several of New York City’s subway lines and forced Brooklyn residents to wade
through thigh-deep water. But in Hoboken, the fire department only towed six
cars, and by that evening there were just a few inches of standing water at
three of 277 intersections. An arts and music festival, the city’s biggest
cultural blowout and moneymaker, remained on course for the weekend. Television
crews, returning to Hoboken early Saturday to film the usual aftermath, left
empty-handed. The city’s flooding was no longer news.
Which was, of course, the real story."
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