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IcyPeas

(25,780 posts) Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:26 PM Jul 2021

NYC subway station flooded:

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NYC subway station flooded: (Original Post) IcyPeas Jul 2021 OP

NY NY, so great they named it twice... As a NY'er, guess I can say that... WTF? winstars Jul 2021 #1

Oh my, how are those trains even running? FakeNoose Jul 2021 #2

They are stopping the trains sabbat hunter Jul 2021 #3

Wouldn't it be easier to just walk a few blocks to the next stop? Earth-shine Jul 2021 #4

Yeah there's no way in Hell I'd be wading in through that MisterNiceKitty Jul 2021 #9

Ditto the highway... brooklynite Jul 2021 #5

CLIMATE CHANGE: "When you think you have seen it all.......there is MORE, & MORE AND EVEN MORE!!!! Stuart G Jul 2021 #6

When I lived on the Upper West Side (West 88th/B-Way), our station used to get like that smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #7

Subway trains are powered by electricity... PoliticAverse Jul 2021 #8

Hey, Sens. Manchin and Sinema Yavin4 Jul 2021 #10

winstars

(4,282 posts)

1. NY NY, so great they named it twice... As a NY'er, guess I can say that... WTF?

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:29 PM

Jul 2021

FakeNoose

(42,390 posts)

2. Oh my, how are those trains even running?

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:32 PM

Jul 2021

This cannot be safe for anyone!

sabbat hunter

(7,114 posts)

3. They are stopping the trains

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:35 PM

Jul 2021

before the flooded stations, turning them back around.

Earth-shine

(4,044 posts)

4. Wouldn't it be easier to just walk a few blocks to the next stop?

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:35 PM

Jul 2021

Rather than swim through water potentially contaminated with all sorts of street dirt, toxins, rat turds, and stray high-voltage flows?

MisterNiceKitty

(422 posts)

9. Yeah there's no way in Hell I'd be wading in through that

Reply to Earth-shine (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 07:48 PM

Jul 2021

cray cray

There's also the bus

brooklynite

(96,882 posts)

5. Ditto the highway...

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:36 PM

Jul 2021

Link to tweet

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)

6. CLIMATE CHANGE: "When you think you have seen it all.......there is MORE, & MORE AND EVEN MORE!!!!

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:42 PM

Jul 2021

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

7. When I lived on the Upper West Side (West 88th/B-Way), our station used to get like that

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 06:47 PM

Jul 2021

after a really bad storm. Of course they block it off and close it down. The water would be running down the stairs like a waterfall.

But then you were stuck with the options of either a bus or a taxi along with everyone else who now was not taking the subway, so it would just be a nightmare, especially if you worked way downtown. You could walk and I often did, but it just takes a long time.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

8. Subway trains are powered by electricity...

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 07:42 PM

Jul 2021

Water and electricity are a bad combination.

Yavin4

(37,182 posts)

10. Hey, Sens. Manchin and Sinema

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 07:51 PM

Jul 2021

Can we hurry things up and get Biden's infrastructure bill passed? Us NYers don't want to swim through our subway tunnels.

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