This morning New York City awoke to the rumble of thunder. The satellite photos showed a dense region of red (heavy downpour) over Manhattan and the other four boroughs. By 9:30AM as I write this the rain has stopped. Top center of the front page of the online New York Times is a story with this headline: CITY ROOM: Transit System Crippled by Flooding, and beginning, “After torrential rains, delays of at least 30 minutes were reported on all subway lines . . .”

It is very seldom that enough rain falls to halt the subways, and millions of people become stranded when it happens. In a sign of the digital times, this request appears in the story about the deluge:

The New York Times is interested in any photographs readers may have taken of the disruptions or damage caused by the heavy rains. Readers are invited to send to e-mail their photos (in JPG or TIFF format) to cityroom.nyt@gmail.com.