Parts of New York City were left underwater on Saturday as heavy thunderstorms triggered flash flooding across the metropolitan area, disrupting subway lines and grounding hundreds of flights ahead of the World Cup final.
Social media footage quickly captured the scale of the disruption, with commuters and drivers documenting severe conditions across the boroughs.
“People are literally swimming,” one woman can be heard saying in a video posted by Instagram account @subwaycreatures. In another video, posted by creator Taylor Prokes, people can be seen treading through New York City’s SoHo neighborhood with trash bags over their legs and water reaching their knees…