Round 2 of NYCs noreaster hits after tree falls on two young kids and leaves surreal scenes: Worst its been since Sandy

The nor’easter took the Big Apple by storm — again.A 1-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl were among four people hurt by a falling tree in Brooklyn, it surfaced Sunday — as round two of the region’s deadly weekend storm battered the city.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. “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.“I moved here to Far Rockaway when I was 10, and this is the worst it’s been since Sandy.”“Our crawl space is flooded up to the joists,” the cop told The Post on Sunday.“At its highest, it was coming up to my thigh, it was 2-and-a-half-feet deep at my house.

My kids are stuck in the house.”Millions of New Yorkers hunkered down as the storm unrelentingly continued to pummel the area since Saturday with inches of soaking rain, tempestuous winds and rising floodwaters.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.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.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.The punishing winds felled scores of trees citywide, including one that killed beloved NYCHA repairman Leighton Brown, 56, on Saturday.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, Br...

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Publisher: New York Post

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