At least 7 of NYC’s subways are flooded and underwater in the aftermath of Sandy. The New York Transit System this morning labeled Sandy ‘the most devastating event to the city’s subway system ever‘.
Officials have given no timetable for the subways to be pumped out.
At least 6 million are without power, and Con Edison officials have called the power failures “the largest storm related outage in our history.”
The NYTimes reports there is no current time-table for the subways to be pumped out:
Seven subway tunnels under the East River flooded, according to Joseph J. Lhota, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman. A spokesman said it was unclear how long it would take to pump them out. The Long Island Rail Road erected a water dam at its West Side Yards to keep Penn Station and East River tunnels dry, but one tunnel had flooding, Mr. Lhota said. Metro North lost power on two of its lines north of 59th Street.
It could be at least a week before power is fully restored (we think this is an optimistic estimate):
More than six million customers lost power Monday as Hurricane Sandy felled trees, downed power lines and flooded substations. The storm led to power failures in at least 17 states, including more than a million customers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and about 660,000 in New York City. Roughly a quarter million customers lost power in Manhattan alone after a fiery explosion at a substation on East 14th Street, leaving nearly the entire island eerily dark south of 34th Street. Con Edison officials called the power failures “the largest storm related outage in our history.” Officials said they expected to be able to restore electricity to much of Manhattan before the night was over but that it could be a week before all service was restored.
From @HeyVeronica
Footage of the subway flooding:
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Well they could go back to the Roman days and have Turkish Baths. Lol All kidding aside there are going to be a lot of unhappy people come the next few days, sure glad I’m in Maine.
Anybody in outlining Communities you better stock up on suplies!!! there will be millions of people needing food and water. They will start getting suplies in near by communities first. Fill your Gas tank, get cash out of the bank for transactions, FOOD & WATER. They will not be able to move millions of people out like New Orleans…
427, I think your advice is a few days late.
Preppers, take notice!
Not for the sheepeople. They think the trucks will be filling there store selves. The fact is near by states will run low on suplies do to redirection of goods to get them to the hardest hit states.
The snow storm behind the hurricane is going to make truck traffic slow to a crawl. Add in downed trees and power lines and they won’t be trucking in much food the next 4-5 days.
Were is Obama?? hiding in Hawaii?? Nothing from the President. Im sure Romney will beat him to the punch again!!
Romney would be stupid not to. Maybe the over lords have gagged both.
Beat him to the punch? Coming soon! Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama on a boxing fight where Romney is going to beat up Obama!
It looks like a scene in a horror movie.
Welcome back, 427. I am sitting on the edge of my chair, waiting for the news articles about all the ‘victims’ who had the time to prepare, but chose not to. You can bet these are the folks who will be first in line demanding their .gov handout, and still complaining the loudest.
Thanks Mammoth;
you will not have to hold your breath long lol
Question is will FEMA get the millions of MRE’s they bought into the area to feed people or will riots over food break out.
Are these the New York’s subway stations? They look ugly and disgusting! I mean it without the flood. The walls are broken and got something disgusting stuck on them. The ceilings aren’t even covered so we can see all the pipes. The subway stations should be decorated.