“I don’t know if we’ll beat the record, but we’ll come close,” Ramunni said. It was the rainiest day at the city’s John F Kennedy International Airport since records began in 1948, the New York office of the National Weather Service said, citing preliminary data. In some spots, the water pooling on the street was five inches (13cm) deep, she said, spilling over the tops of her children’s rain boots. Zhang said she had to make a second trip to school to deliver dry shoes and socks for them. “This is crazy,” she said. “When will this stop?”
