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Video: Woman Wades Across Flooded Williamsburg Street Amid Storm

New Yorkers waded through waist-deep water as city streets flooded over Monday. Williamsburg was one of the hardest hit by the storm.

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WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — At least one pedestrian in Williamsburg wasn't going to be stopped by waist-deep flooding that plagued the neighborhood after Monday night storms.

Video shows a woman wading across the flooded intersection near Wallabout Street and Throop Avenue even though water is up to her knees. The Wallabout and Throop block was one of the hardest hit by a night of heavy rain that flooded streets across the city.

Williamsburg was was one of several Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods that got the brunt of the storm.

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More video from the Wallabout and Throop block — which City Council Speaker Corey Johnson put on a list of the most flooded in the city — shows cars struggling to drive through water as the storm surged.

Areas hit the hardest Monday included Jamaica, Queens, Williamsburg, Park Slope and Boro Park, Brooklyn and parts of Staten Island, Johnson said on social media. Water started to recede from the areas Monday night, the speaker said.

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Also in Brooklyn, Park Slope's Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street was completely submerged, putting cars and even the orange barricades under water.

A number of New York City-area highways such as the Long Island Expressway and Brooklyn Queens Expressway were also flooded.

ConEdison's outage map was down Tuesday morning, but the company estimated that more than 13,000 New Yorkers were still without power from the storm around 10 a.m.

Thunderstorms and flooding threats are likely to continue into Tuesday, forecasters warned.

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