Downpours on Thursday overwhelmed drainage systems in several city neighborhoods. Wind gusts broke branches and even tore down trees.

One huge tree in front of Michael Delucca’s house in Fresh Meadows, Queens, came crashing down on his home of more than five decades.

“I was freaking out yesterday because it was leaning on the house and on the top and I was afraid the weight of it was going to crush the roof,” Deluca said Friday. “Over the last two or three years, every year limbs were breaking off the tree.”

Deluca said he submitted half a dozen requests for the city to cut down the tree, and a crew from the city’s Parks Department even inspected it this past July.

“It’s kind of a bummer because I had to wait for it to fall on the house and do the damage it did,” Deluca said. They said

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