One of Irene’s dark clouds followed a Staten Island man to Brooklyn.
Reuben Figueroa, who lives in a flood zone, evacuated his dangerous neighborhood for higher ground.
Figueroa schlepped all the way to his in-laws’ house on 49th Street in Brooklyn, where moments after his arrival, a tree fell and crushed his Saturn.
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Two clueless kayakers who had to be rescued after they set out in the hurricane-whipped surf off Staten Island Saturday night sheepishly admitted yesterday that Mayor Bloomberg was right to blast them for putting emergency responders at risk.
“It was a foolish thing to do,” a contrite Benjamin Hume, 37, told The Post.
Bloomberg had blasted the dunderheaded duo for endangering the cops who fished them out.
Hume and Evan Morgan, 34, launched their two-man kayak into New York Harbor at about 7 p.m. as waves surged up to 5 feet.
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Real estate really is about location.
Take two homeowners on Staten Island who live in semiattached houses on Saybrook Street.
Kerlin Alendry, 26, who measured about 6 inches of water in her basement, said. “It’s weird, especially because we’re closer to the higher water.”
Her unlucky neighbor, Katie Song, 57, whose basement was filled with 4 feet of water, said everything in it is ruined. “We’ll have to get a brand-new boiler. I don’t know why our basement got so flooded and theirs didn’t.”
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Not without my kitties!
Janice Paz, 59, of flooded Saybrook Street on Staten Island refused to board an FDNY boat because she wouldn’t abandon her cats — despite the fact that water on her block was chest-high.
“They said we could take the cats but had to bring our own litter boxes and food.” It was too difficult to grab the cats plus all that stuff, so she stayed. “No way was I leaving without our cats,” she said.
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By early afternoon yesterday, surfers in Belmar and Spring Lake, NJ, weresurreptitiously donning wetsuits and heading into the raging surf — avoiding cops who were handing out tickets.
“I knew this would be all hype,” said one. “It was way too overplayed.”