Stunning pictures of NY flooding

[Spitfire of ATJ]

WTC site:

[virgogal]

1. Good lord. Words fail me. What a disaster.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Some of the pictures are surreal...

Queens had a classic house to house firestorm fed by the winds involving over 100 homes:



I've been looking to see if the original Archie Bunker house was lost. I don't think so or it would have been all over the news.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Breezy Point is newish McMansions

Archie Bunker's house / neighborhood is nowhere near the water, and is an old 30's row house.



(Grew up in Queens)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. I drove by it once. It's across the street from a big cemetary.

I guess they picked it because they could get the cameras far enough away to frame the shot for the show.

[a geek named Bob]

2. I can only hope we can repair the damage quickly.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. It isn't going be quick at all.

I saw a comment that luckily this is mostly fresh water.

It was the first time I've seen the water in the Hudson through New York described as "fresh".

[a geek named Bob]

9. It's getting to the point where enclosing our cities in domes

starts to sound like a winning proposition...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. It's cheeper to just put Republicans under the bus.

[a geek named Bob]

13. true...

but a linked set of Domed Cities just has this cool sort of pizz-zazz to it.

Running over Republicans just sounds like a set of mob hits.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Not if they're church buses.

[a geek named Bob]

17. that's really gonna need careful planning...

otherwise, it's just kitsch

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. "that's really gonna need careful planning..."

Not if the bus is from a black church going to vote.

[a geek named Bob]

22. okay, that works. n/t

[davidpdx]

18. Honestly it would be cheaper to run them over

[a geek named Bob]

23. but very messy...

and I know the surviving repubs will cry poor....

They always manage to stick us with the clean up bill.

[bbinacan]

3. 86th Street stop

That was my stop when I lived in NYC in 1989. Wow.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. The Newark one looks like the scene from "The Abyss" when they're screaming, "Cut the hose!"

[RobertEarl]

4. Two good websites

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224655/Hurricane-Sandy-update-Floodwaters-breach-rivers-submerge-towns-storm-century-barrels-East-Coast.html

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http://live.nydailynews.com/Event/Tracking_Hurricane_Sandy_2

[CrispyQ]

5. Thanks.

Speechless.

[RobertEarl]

6. I got one off DU

I maybe should have put a warning up that what you are about to see could cause some to become speechless, or worse. And it is a long way from being over.

Oh, yeah, went to the NYTimes site and it wasn't very good.

[jsr]

11. Damn.

All that saltwater too.

[KharmaTrain]

19. Memories Of The Great Chicago River Flood...

...that happened in '90. Some doofus punctured a hole in an old underground tunnel and the river inundated the loop and the subway. It was eerie as there was nothing visible on ground level...all the destruction was under your feet. Once they plugged the leak (with old mattresses) it took about a week to pump the tunnels dry enough to turn back on the juice. The difference in NYC is the brackish saltwater that is highly corrosive. Hopefully they can pump it out fast enough to prevent too much salt damage.

One benefit of our flood...it cleaned out a bunch of the graffiti and forced the city to clean up the rest of the transit system...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. It's like, "Where's the handle to flush this room?"

[Uncle Joe]

24. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Spitfire of ATJ.