New York Post
· collected 2026-09-27 · by Kevin Sheehan, Steven Vago, Matt Troutman
A severe nor'easter hit New York City on Saturday and continued into Sunday morning, causing widespread power outages affecting nearly 40,000 people across New York State, with 19,800 alone in Suffolk County. The storm brought high winds up to 56 mph in JFK Airport, leading to flooding that some residents compared to Hurricane Sandy's aftermath. A tree fell on two young children and two adults in Brooklyn’s Kelly Park Playground, resulting in minor injuries for all four victims. Additionally, the storm created surreal scenes such as fish swimming in driveways and seagulls attempting to catch them in flooded streets.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-28,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
The wet-and-wild storm sent hapless ocean fish swimming through driveways and hungry seagulls diving for dinner in city streets — while prompting a waterlogged NYPD cop to deem it the worst flooding in his Queens neighborhood since 2012’s Hurricane Sandy.
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it → send → Sandy
“I mean, there’s horseshoe crabs all the way here up to Broad Channel Drive,” said rubber-boot-wearing off-duty Officer Matt Langdon, 48, standing in the water pooled outside his Beach 84th Street house.
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Langdon → mean → house
“I moved here to Far Rockaway when I was 10, and this is the worst it’s been since Sandy.”
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it → move → Sandy
“Our crawl space is flooded up to the joists,” the cop told The Post on Sunday.
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cop → flood → Sunday
“At its highest, it was coming up to my thigh, it was 2-and-a-half-feet deep at my house.
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it → come → house
My kids are stuck in the house.”
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kids → stick → house
Nearly 40,000 people across the Empire State on Sunday morning were left without power, including 19,800 alone in Suffolk County on Long Island, according PowerOutage.us.
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people → leave → PowerOutage.us
A whopping 3.16 inches of rain fell in Howard Beach, Queens, with most city neighborhoods seeing at least an inch since Saturday, National Weather Service data show.
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data → fall → Saturday
Up to 56 mph winds were recorded in JFK Airport in Queens, with Midtown seeing gusts as high as 47 mph over the storm’s two days, according to the weather service.
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Midtown → record → service
Four other New Yorkers — including the little boy and girl — were also nearly flattened by another falling tree Saturday in Kelly Park Playground in Homecrest, Brooklyn, police said.
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police → include → Homecrest
The tree struck a 40-year-old woman and 41-year-old woman in addition to the kiddies when it crashed down around 5:30 p.m., cops said.
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cops → strike → kiddies
Miraculously, all four were left with minor injuries.
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four → leave → injuries
The baby suffered a cut to his cheek, the little girl was left with a broken arm, the 40-year-old woman had a head and wrist injury and and the 41-year-old hurt her head, authorities said.
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authorities → suffer → head
The near-miss coincided with a “missing” Long Island swimmer who turned out to be alive and well.
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who → coincide → swimmer
The still-unidentified swimmer sparked fears Saturday when he was spotted jumping — and apparently vanishing — into 18-foot waves near Field 3 on Fire Island’s western tip.
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he → spark → tip
But after learning he was the subject of a search off Robert Moses State Park, the man contacted authorities to inform them he was fine, according to a joint statement from New York State Police and New York State Park Police.
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he → learn → Police
“The individual was located alive and well, and no further assistance from the public is needed at this time,” the statement reads.
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statement → locate → time
Beyond dangers of life-and-limb, the storm also yielded downright surreal scenes across the city.
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storm → yield → city
Bewildered Queens mom Fadela, 40, said she woke up Sunday morning to find fish swimming in her driveway.
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fish → say → driveway
“Look at the little fish!” said Fadela, 40.
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Fadela → look → fish
A happy seagull also swooped down apparently to try to catch fish swimming along a flooded Far Rockaway street Sunday, video taken by The Post showed.
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video → swoop → Post
The seagull’s dive was unsuccessful, as the shorebird’s feet were empty as it lofted back above the water.
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it → loft → water
The fishing expedition unfolded Sunday as water inundated Beach 84th Street and Beach Channel Drive.
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water → unfold → Street
The flood not only brought schools of bait fish onto what’s normally dry land but also prehistoric-looking horseshoe crabs.
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what → bring → fish
Garbage cans, space heaters and other human-made debris were swept up by the deluge, too.
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cans → make → deluge
Wicked wind in New Jersey meanwhile sent some smelly objects on the go.
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wind → send → go
Four runaway portable toilets were spotted rolling across a parking lot in Metlife Stadium, viral video showed.
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video → spot → Stadium
“Heads up!” a man is heard yelling in the footage as the johns barreled into another man’s path outside the stadium.
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johns → hear → stadium
Flooding from the nor’easter hit coastal neighborhoods across the city starting Saturday, with Broad Channel – a sleepy waterfront neighborhood across the bridge from Far Rockaway – among the most inundated.
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Flooding → hit → inundated
Locals such as Bob, 77, grew worried Sunday that the high tide would bring another round of flooding.
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tide → grow → flooding
“Watch out for the sharks!” he joked, before turning serious.
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he → watch → sharks
“If it’s like yesterday, it’s going to get higher.”
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it → ’ → yesterday
Maurizio Cina, a 67-year-old retiree who has lived more than 35 years in Broad Channel, spent the morning walking down Cross Bay Boulevard to survey damage to his properties.
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who → live → properties
A block away from Cina’s impromptu survey, water shot up fountain-like through sewer caps.
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water → shoot → caps
“With the nor’easter, the full moon and then the high tide, it’s the trifecta of floods for Broad Channel,” he said.
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he → ’ → Channel
“I haven’t seen it this bad except for [Superstorm] Sandy.”
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it → see → Sandy
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