On Tuesday, shop owners along Melrose Ave. cleaned up after rainwater from Monday’s storm flooded their stores.
Dominic DeLuca, who owns the store “Brooklyn Projects,” told KNX News’ Jon Baird that the city had pumper trucks on hand, but the city workers were nowhere to be found when the flooding began.
“Once the water started coming into all our businesses, two dudes came,” he said. “They opened up the manhole cover, and the water just went down, and that was it. The flood came and went in five minutes, but for 20 minutes, we were like, literally almost knee-high in water, and these guys weren’t here, and they started BSing that, ‘Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we had people here.’ But I have video that shows the fact that no, they weren’t here. None of them were in their trucks.”…