Last weekend, Kololyan and his neighbors spent six hours trying to pump water out of their houses and raked debris away from the sewer, but this weekend he’s prepared for the worst.
His street gets so flooded on a regular basis that he was once able to ride his surfboard down it while being pulled by a car.
He created a flood response area in his backyard. A utility shelf holds all the tools he needs like a 100-foot hose and sump pumps, but the pumps were too small for the task he was faced with. NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 05: A resident walks by a damaged house at Queens after heavy rains and winds from remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 5, 2021 in New York City. That's where his new gas-powered water pump comes into play. He says it can remove 1,000 gallons of water a minute.
As far as what the city is doing to prepare for future storms, there's tremendous work that needs to be done, but right now the first network of bioswales being built in New York City is happening in the Rockaways. Near Beach 56th Street, only one side of the road was"That's the tale of two curbs," said Walter Rodriguez Meyer, principal urban designer at Local Office Landscape & Urban Design.
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