I’m back visiting and I’m so jealous of the new rapid transit bus lines and bike lanes. They are beautiful and fast, wish these had been in place when I lived here! Minneapolis still out-classing other cities.
If you are worried about your street flooding, one easy thing to do is to keep your local storm drains clean. A lot of places have an adopt a drain program. Looks like JC doesn't add in their storm drains on this map, but it's an easy thing to do to look our for the ones nearest you. Just keep them free of debris. https://nj.adopt-a-drain.org/
To be clear, this prevents.... some flooding. Not like "there's just too much rain and we have old infrastructure" flooding.
I want to try it but googling always brings me to the restaurant Pastis..... which does not sell pastis. Thank you!