Saturday's flash flooding turned a stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Roosevelt Avenue into a rescue scene, with FDNY navigating a firetruck through water deep enough to float an SUV to pull stranded motorists to safety.

Floodwater rose fast enough on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Woodside, Queens, that motorists were climbing out of car windows and waiting on the hoods of their vehicles by Saturday afternoon — until an FDNY firetruck drove through the inundation to reach them.

WABC reported the rescue on July 18 on the BQE (I-278) near Roosevelt Avenue: floodwater had reached depths capable of floating an SUV. Some trapped drivers made it to an overpass wall on their own; others waited on vehicle hoods while firefighters navigated the truck through standing water on one of Queens' main highway arteries.

The same storm flooded an entrance to the Roosevelt Avenue-Jackson Heights station — served by the 7, E, F, M, and R trains — sending commuters wading through station walkways. Queens' subway had already taken a hit at Court Square, where a separate flooding episode knocked the E off its Queens route and pushed the N into split-section service with 19-minute gaps.

Con Edison reported 1,025 customers without power in New York City by Sunday morning. The BQE — a fallback for Queens riders who can't reach or have been knocked off the subway — spent part of Saturday as a recovery scene, underscoring how little margin the borough's drainage infrastructure leaves when a severe storm arrives.