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Jun 21, 2009 7:00 am US/Eastern

New Yorkers Grow Weary Of Constant June Rain

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Residents across the Tri-State are finding rushing water where you'd normally find a trickle.

Nearly non-stop rain resulted in a swollen stream spectacle under the Tompkins Avenue Bridge in Mamaroneck.

"It's like living in Ireland," resident Maura Brett said. "I'm hoping it'll dry up so we get some sun and just get the summer back."

Rivers rose just enough to jump banks and swamp walkways, but not enough to cause any major damage, avoiding a repeat of Mamaroneck's big flood of 2007.

"It was bad two years ago – an entire section of the town was flooded," Mamaroneck boater Stefan Aubry said. "My house is on high ground, so I should be okay."

Every new downpour comes with less surprise for area residents as gloom in June has become the norm.

"I don't like it, it has been rain for almost a whole month," Stamford resident Elena Vasquez says. "I don't like that.'

"My question is when is summer going to come," Harrison resident Lauren Eames said.

Rain on 16 of the first 20 days of June has reshaped outdoor events across the region: umbrellas are up, and attendance is down.

In Midtown, people bypassed a street fair and ducked into Broadway shows, or in Alex Foust's case a tanning booth.

"When you can't get real sun fake sun is where it's at," Foust, who lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, said. "The bulbs, they warm you up, you know."

For some, the rain equals good business. Pedicab driver Frank Burhonov wants it to keep it coming, and he'll keep pedaling.

"That's the best part of our business," Burhonov says. "If it rains, we get more customers than in the sunny weather."

"It makes the sunny days all that more sunny, so I won't complain," Harlem resident Kim Gainer said.

Gainer has the right attitude, but other rain-weary New Yorkers are fed up and pleading with Mother Nature to let the sunshine in.

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