You can find it on this page at the Atlantic (heh) website. The water appears to be flooding in through the elevator shaft. There’s also a fake picture of someone swimming in the Times Square station, but I bet if there were enough light you could see something similar in the South Ferry station now.
I did like the Presiden’ts response: “Whatever it takes to fix things, MAKE IT HAPPEN.”
It’s gonna be a long recovery, I think.
I live way upstate, so while people were freaked, the water did no damage here. The winds, however, did so - I lost my landline.
Our national offices are in White plains and that’s where the servers were, so all of the offices in the entire country went down for a day. It was like a holiday - I "worked’ from home, but since all of the databases were down, I really couldn’t get much done.
I watched the flooding and damage in NYC & LI with horror. I hope everyone is OK. We’re scheduled to go down there this weekend and while I’m sure it will be all right I really, really don’t want to go.
I am considering this a personal response to what I wrote in post 445…you even copied my phrasing. I wrote “my Manhattan business is devasted” and the very next response is " I’m glad Manhattan was devasted"…
Really, this was not some vague outpouring of anger against Manhattanites it felt like a personal attack at my lowest moment.
By shutting down ahead of the storm, they managed to move all the trains to areas much less likely to be flooded. As much of a hassle as draining and cleaning the tunnels will be, if rolling stock had been down there, it would be a hundred times more expensive to fix.
Stuff is happening much faster than I expected.
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Three of seven flooded subway tunnels connecting Brooklyn and Queens to Manhattan have been pumped out so far.
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Cool! Glad to hear it.
(My dad is thanking his lucky stars that he’s retired now and doesn’t have to deal with this crap - he used to manage maintenance planning for the Transit Authority.)
We’ve got family in Bedminster, NJ, and they’ve just been told it may be up to 3 weeks before their power is restored. What a mess. They’re trying to tough it out at home for now.
My house is still dark. BGE refuses to give us an estimate, as per usual.
The Governor just had a press conference where they said they expect limited service on the subway as early as tomorrow. Not in lower Manhattan and supplemented by bus service but, that’s pretty darn quick!
Gawker is reporting that the MTA was less than thorough at planning out some of their subway system flooding defenses. Like sending a crew out to mostly stand around and drink coffee, while two of them set up a plywood “tube” atop a grate and stuck maybe a dozen tiny sandbags haphazardly around the bottom, blocking exactly nothing. So… yeah. Like they said in the article, there’s only so much you can do, but that looked like a make-work project that could maybe have used those employees elsewhere instead.
Don’t take it personally, he made a digusting comment at a bad time. We don’t hate you. Be well.
A friend of mine is watching NY1 and posted the following update on Facebook:
SUBWAY SERVICE starting tomorrow (Thursday):
1 north of 42d st
2 north of 42d st
4 north of 42d st and seperately between borough hall and new lots avenue
5 atlantic avenue to flatbush
6 north of 42 st
S shuttle between times square and grand central
A north of penn station and seperately between jay street/metro tech and lefferts blvd
D north of herald square and seperately between atlantic avenue and bay parkway
F north of herald square and seperately between jay street/metro tech and Avenue X
J between Jamaica Center and Hewes Street
L between Broadway Junctin and Rockaway Parkway
M between Myrtle Avneue/Broadway and Metropolitan Avenue
N north of Herald Square
R between Jay Street/MetroTech and 95th St
3, B, C, E, G, Q are suspended
So the subways are on their way back. Nice!
My kids actually get Halloween this year! Last year we were without power for over a week. Their school is closed through Friday though.
Thats scary.
Finally moving out.
Lost power Mon. night but it was back on yesterday. Worst problem now is no internet anywhere but at work.
Thanks much for spreading the word, lisa.
Still no power in our neighborhood, but we have a generator so we’ve been able to keep our perishables unperished as well as share some energy with the neighbors. I’m hoping that the fact we live across the street from a school might play a factor in our area getting juiced up sooner rather than later.
Our place is 99.8% fine – better than many of our neighbors and a hell of a lot better than those on the barrier island. I’m at my mom’s now (across town, where power was restored this afternoon), so I’m seeing footage of all the places I’ve spent so much of my life, and they’re just…gone.
I’m kind of numb right now…the scene is just surreal.
Gotta run – hopefully I’ll be able to read this whole thread and post more before too long.
Or not. They changed it and took half my guys. I’m still waiting for a mission that we’ve been waiting for since late Sunday.
Great to hear you are good. I wasn’t sure what part of town you were from. I saw pictures from Mantaloking. There is one strip where 100 houses were swept into the bay.
New Brunswick continues to suck. Broken telephone poles, knocked over corporate signs, streetlights out on very busy roads, trees blocking streets and highway exits, and no power for what we are told will be about a week. All the stuff in our fridge is probably ruined and it’s getting quite cold at night. This has been an incredibly stressful month for a number of personal reasons so I think my husband and I are taking this harder than we otherwise would. I know it could be much worse, but that knowledge doesn’t really make me feel better about our current circumstances. Last night I hit my psychological limit and had what I can only describe as a complete nervous breakdown. I made an emergency visit to my doctor today.
We fled New Brunswick and are staying at a hotel in South Jersey - partly because my husband is desperate for internet to finish his internship applications and partly because it will benefit me psychologically. I never thought a warm meal and a hot bath could ever be so meaningful. Now I have a short commute to work at least while we are staying here. And some creature comforts like internet and electricity.
I continue to keep those truly devastated by this disaster in my thoughts. And I’m very appreciative of everyone out there working to get things back to normal as soon as possible.
Yeah. Good to hear from you, Hal.
I drove around here this morning. Lots of downed trees, blocked off roads and non-working traffic lights. No school for eldest until Monday at the earliest. A Panera’s that was open and working during Irene and the October snowfall with wi-fi was closed. I called the police to ask if the library was open, if it was safe to walk around and when power would be on in the rest of the town. They had no idea and asked me for the library’s phone number because they had no working power in police HQ.
Bleh.
Pics of Coney Island after the storm:
It looks like it could have been a lot worse. I grew up in adjacent Brighton Beach. After a nor’easter one year I was walking along the beach and found the most amazing shells. I even dug out a knobbed whelk from one of the jetties.