harlem is a majority black and brown community. i live on a very historic street, 137th, between 7th and 8th. my name is danette and i live in woodside, queens. we have multiracial community and it's very friendly. our community, it's a normal day, whether it's raining or dry outside. we're still looking at a pretty potent storm system with a lot of rain, and it's all starting to move into the tri—state area. my name is hakeem. i'm the owner of the yafa cafe in brooklyn, new york. during covid, we saw a revenue loss of about 75%, and so it was always really difficult to operate and let go of a bunch of our staff. now that things were finally back kind of to normal, with vaccinations, we felt that we were ready to kind of start bringing back our old business model. the winds kicking in and also we're going to end up getting bigger rain in our area, because as it moves on a diagonal, it starts tapping into the ocean influence. the possibility that those storms do turn severe is something we've got to consider. we had the flash floo
