As Of 10/14, NYC's Wettest October On Record - NYT

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In three days in New York, Bill Morris of Yorba Linda, Calif., has been everything that New Yorkers have been: drenched, doused, splashed on, dripped on, kind of dejected, kind of astonished. Can it really rain this much?

As Mr. Morris has discovered, it can. As Mr. Morris has also discovered, the wettest October in history, with seven straight days with at least 0.01 inch of measurable precipitation, is its own twist on a New York slogan: All rain, all the time. It has been slip-sliding misery out there. The storm that parked itself over the metropolitan region may have been nastier to New Jersey and Long Island, submerging streets and flooding basements and blowing down trees, but it left the city a soggy, frustrated mess.

Children with a day off from school for the Yom Kippur holiday had to spend it cooped up inside. The only closed umbrellas were at sidewalk cafes that had not sent them to storage. The figure of the walker on the walk-don't-walk sign would be wearing waders if it were down where the real walkers are, not high and dry on a lamppost. Roofs have taken a beating. Yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly abandoned its chamber because of a leak overhead.

"This is all the rude confirmation that the season has changed, that we're now mired in autumn on our way to winter," said Paul Marsh, a stock trader who lives on the Upper West Side. "September was the best, and now this, shutting the door on our Indian summer."

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