LF: Seawater Flooding Subway Tunnels; NYC Subways Could Be Crippled For Days

UPDATED | Floodwaters rushed through Lower Manhattan on Monday night, inundating subway and automotive tunnels and likely forcing a prolonged shutdown of New York City’s mass-transit system.

No clear estimate was available, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not provide a timetable for reopening the subways. But the extent of flooding and the height of the storm surge appeared likely to meet or exceed the level of a 1992 nor’easter that forced the temporary closure of subway tunnels for both the MTA and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The likelihood of damage to underground infrastructure from a wave of corrosive saltwater made the chance of a quick restoration of full subway service between Manhattan and Brooklyn slim. One MTA official said, “It could be a long time.”

As the Journal reported earlier Monday evening, transit workers were moving to seal off openings that could allow corrosive salt water to sweep into the subway system and incapacitate trains. Still, the threat of an extended shutdown loomed over a system that carries 5.2 million passengers a day and is essential to the city’s economy.

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Yeah, PATH train isnt looking too good. #hurricanesandy

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

[quote] Oh, I know exactly what I get paid for. But I don't get paid to try and decipher your gems, I consider that to be just good practice dealing with my autistic niece.[/quote]

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The SuperStorm Sandy (Note the Dropping of the Cutesy 'Frankenstorm' :twisted: ) will crush Oil Demand now.

[quote][b]U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest producer.[/b][/quote]

[quote]Feel the rippling power of that surge: note those weasel words. The establishment has no pleasant answers so it simply lies. When the lies prove laughable, it puts itself on all sides of the issue. Unsurprisingly, citizens develop a cynical attitude regarding the establishment themselves, they really don’t have a clear idea where to turn.

Imagine the National Weather Service being run the same way as the US Department of Energy. Instead of clear warnings of droughts, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes there would be misleading suggestions … for families with children to take vacations at the beach. Reality would be rationalized: not quite high surf, just yet rip currents, tiny asterisk heavy rain and winds. Models would show all storms heading out to sea … vacations would surge … [/quote]

Note how NOAA SHUT DOWN ALL Messaging at 10 PM last nite even as NYC and 65 million did an Epic Fail.