Nobody is telling you how F....ed New York City's infrastructure actually is right now

Nobody is talking about the fact that six inches of rain just paralyzed a global city.

Not a hurricane. Not a once-in-a-century storm. Six inches. In a few hours. And the Long Island Expressway shut down in both directions. The F train suspended. Flash flood warnings across every borough.

By rain.

→ Cost of fixing this: deferred for decades

→ Cost of not fixing it: the entire city grinds to a halt

→ That is not a weather problem. That is a maintenance problem.

NYC's catch-basin cleaning fleet was 63% out of service during prior storms. By end of 2023 it was 77% out of service. The city had 19 functional trucks for five boroughs.

Nineteen trucks. For eight million people.

Nobody is telling you how # New York City's infrastructure actually is right now.

Everyone is watching the flood footage. The cars underwater. The subway stations turned into swimming pools.

Nobody is talking about the fact that six inches of rain just paralyzed a global… pic.twitter.com/ZASPiLvRwz

— ???????? Ronald Carter (@USronaldcarter)May 21, 2026