STONY BROOK, Long Island (PIX11) — As Long Island residents and work crews spent Tuesday cleaning up after last weekend’s flood damage , officials said they now have to assume that major storm events like it will be more frequent.
Suffolk County leaders laid out basic guidelines on Tuesday for making local infrastructure more resilient to climate change-fueled severe weather. Meanwhile, some county residents said that anything that can help spare them from the damage they’ve suffered is more than welcome.
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One of those residents is Chris Nemeth. She, her entire family, and some close friends were at her home in Stony Brook trying to salvage items in her finished basement, which the family uses as a walk-in closet.
Everything was waterlogged after flood waters had risen to the ceiling last Sunday night into Monday morning…