Flash flooding from a torrential rain caused a few hours of shock and frustration across New York City Saturday.
Numerous videos from across the city popped up in social media, one showing Soho streets looking like shallow lakes while in another vid from somewhere in Manhattan shows customers in a shop that starts to flood as they watch garbage containers float by on the sidewalk outside.
Another reveals six lanes of traffic backed up on a major thoroughfare as a person with an umbrella and riding some sort of submerged vehicle tries to cross what looks like a lake as observers who shot the footage say, “No way.”…