--- title: Weather Forecast: Record Rain Across American description: Flash-flood watches and record rainfall canonical: https://time.com/3108355/weather-forecast-rain/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-13T17:18:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:39:05.484Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Weather Forecast: Record Rain Across American og:description: Flash-flood watches and record rainfall og:url: https://time.com/3108355/weather-forecast-rain/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1a2071e89cc7fcf/69869f6713c79f79f119372e/long-island-flood.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Long Island Bayshore Flood og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Weather Forecast: Record Rain Across American twitter:description: Flash-flood watches and record rainfall twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1a2071e89cc7fcf/69869f6713c79f79f119372e/long-island-flood.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Heavy Rain Smashes Records Across America by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Aug 13, 2014 5:18 PM CUT  A car is abandoned on a flooded Reddington St. following heavy rains and flash flooding in Bayshore, N.Y. on Aug. 13, 2014. A car is abandoned on a flooded Reddington St. following heavy rains and flash flooding in Bayshore, N.Y. on Aug. 13, 2014.Andrew Theodorakis—Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Aug 13, 2014 5:18 PM CUT A historic storm system flooded cars, turned parking lots into lakes and smashed records on New York’s Long Island, where one town got more than a foot of rain in just six hours on Wednesday. Flash-flood watches were [in effect across New England](http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/severe-weather-tracker-page#severe-forecast "undefined") as the dousing chugged east. The National Weather Service described the Long Island flooding as dangerous and life-threatening. The town of Islip, which had never recorded more than seven inches of rain in a single day, [reported almost 13 inches](http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/New-York-New-Jersey-Rain-Millville-Flooding-Rain-Storm-271046721.html "undefined"). The pictures looked like something out of a hurricane… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/strong-storms-shatter-records-long-island-cars-nearly-submerged-n179546?cid=par-time-article%5F20140813 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3108355/weather-forecast-rain/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3108355/weather-forecast-rain/"},"headline":"Heavy Rain Smashes Records Across America","datePublished":"2014-08-13T17:18:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:39:05.484Z","description":"Flash-flood watches and record rainfall","url":"https://time.com/3108355/weather-forecast-rain/","keywords":["weather"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1a2071e89cc7fcf/69869f6713c79f79f119372e/long-island-flood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1a2071e89cc7fcf/69869f6713c79f79f119372e/long-island-flood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Long Island Bayshore Flood","caption":"Long Island Bayshore Flood","creditText":"Andrew Theodorakis—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3108355/weather-forecast-rain/","name":"Heavy Rain Smashes Records Across America"}}]}] ```