Author: Shannon Thaler for Dailymail.Com

Published: September 2, 2021 at 12:55 EST | Updated: September 3, 2021 at 11:34 EST

When the remnants of Hurricane Ida flooded the city and New Yorkers squatted down and tried to protect their houses from the weather, a man was seen floating in a swimming pool in a flooded alley Smoking a hookah on the object to relax. 

In a video posted to Twitter at 11:30 on Wednesday night, the man was seen as ignorant of the surrounding situation and treated the street as a lazy river. 

When it poured down and the apartment on the ground was full of water, the New Yorker was not dizzy by the rain, he inadvertently inhaled and exhaled a lot of smoke from the device.

He leaned on the raft, drifting in the muddy water while tilting his head up, seeming to enjoy Ada rushing through the Big Apple and killing eight people, including a two-year-old boy and an 86-year-old woman. 

In a video posted on Twitter at 11:37 pm on Wednesday evening, someone spotted a man leaning on the pool float, smoking a hookah while drifting along an alley in New York City, as if it were a lazy river 

This video was quickly viewed and shared. After Barstool was reposted with a title, it received more than 700,000 views and thousands of responses: "New York is underwater, but this man lives his best life. "

The user joked that they “had hepatitis just by looking at this” and sarcastically referred to this person as “patient zero” and thanked him for his “Covid-21”.

Others worried about the cleanliness of the water and warned the unnamed man that he was floating in "sewage" and "absolute filth", just waiting for "a group of swimming subway rats to appear".

But the destruction that Ada has caused in the past 24 hours is by no means a joke.  

For the first time in its history, the Office of the National Weather Service in New York issued a flash flood emergency to New York City—warning people to go to the highlands immediately. The "emergency" warning is the highest level of flood warning-indicating a direct and significant threat to life and property.

The video was watched and shared immediately, and after Barstool reposted it with the title: "New York is underwater, but this man lives his best life," it has received more than 700,000 views and thousands of responses.

The entire northeast was affected by the deadly remnants of the hurricane. After the end of Ida climbed into the tri-state area all Wednesday night, the hurricane killed at least 25 people and brought a month of rainfall in less than a day. The flooding people fell asleep and torn apart parts of New Jersey with a tornado. 

Eight people were killed in New York City as floods poured into basement apartments, uprooted cars, and crashed into buildings in Brooklyn and Queens.  

One of the two-year-old boys in New York City was found dead in an apartment in Woodside, Queens, along with a 48-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man. They are all trapped in their basement apartment. The other deceased was 86 years old and lived in a basement apartment in Elmhurst, Queens.

More deaths from Ada have been found in New York City than in Louisiana, which has a few days to prepare for the storm. The first warning was issued at around 7 pm, and by 10 pm, the New York Police Department was salvaging the body from the basement house. 

Ten people were killed in New Jersey, five of them were washed away by a car that was submerged in the water, and five died in Elizabeth's apartment complex. In Passaic, a man in his seventies died after a car was submerged, and two other people in the same area were caught in the river. 

Queens, New York: The interior of an MTA bus was flooded because a driver ploughed in 3-4 feet of rain

On Wednesday night, a takeaway driver stood on the bicycle saddle outside Soho Finest Deli on the corner of Grand Street and Thompson Street in Soho to avoid flooding rising around him 

Queens, New York: A homeless person stands in front of the deli during the flooding caused by Storm Ida

Queens, New York: FDNY member rescued a woman from a car in waist-high water

In New York and New Jersey, 85,000 people are currently out of power, including 25,000 in New York City. 

On Wednesday, the daily rainfall in Central Park and Newark, New Jersey broke records.

In the iconic park in New York, it dropped by 7.13 inches, breaking the record of 3.84 inches in 1927.

At the same time, Newark dropped 8.41 inches, hindering airport operations there, breaking the 1959 record of 2.22 inches.

Hector Lola, the mayor of Pasek, New Jersey, said the town has up to 8 feet of water.

"In the area where we were unfortunately killed-I must say we pray and support for this man's family-there is more than six feet of water in that area.

"The fire department and the police had to stop their efforts because our fire truck was really stuck on the road. Our ambulance stopped on the road.

He said: "In some areas of our city, we saw up to 8 feet of water."

On Wednesday night, the Jefferson Street subway in Brooklyn was flooded and an L-shaped train was approaching with passengers

New York City: trains are submerged by waterfalls, subway stations are completely submerged

On September 2, 2021, in New York City, due to the heavy rainfall brought by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, commuters walked into the flooded 3rd Avenue/149th Street subway station, service was interrupted

All subway lines in New York City were suspended on Wednesday night, and non-emergency vehicles were banned until 5 a.m. on Thursday.

MTA currently operates extremely limited subway lines.

After recording 3.15 inches of rain in Central Park in just one hour, the city suspended the subway and banned all non-emergency vehicles on the road until 5 am.

'These numbers are climbing. Charge your device. If you experience a power outage, please call immediately," Murphy wrote on Twitter.

Ada traced the east coast of the United States, leaving a devastating trail behind her, and is now flying towards the city of Boston.

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