Whenever it rains hard, sewers clog with storm debris—the number of plastic garbage bags adrift in the world's cities may truly exceed calculation—and the water, needing to go somewhere, plops down the nearest subway stairs. add a nor'easter, and the surging atlantic ocean bangs against new york's water table until, in places like water street in lower manhattan or yankee stadium in the bronx, it backs up right into the tunnels, shutting everything down until it subsides. which statement  best  describes how the author develops the tone in this passage?   a. he uses verbs such as "plops" and "bangs" to describe the force of water as it pours into the city.  b. he uses imagery-based descriptions to describe what happens when rain overwhelms the city's infrastructure.  c. he uses simplistic language to describe what happens when too much rain falls, creating an instructional tone.  d. he uses fact-based descriptions of the effect of a hard rain on the city's infrastructure, creating an objective tone.