[phantom4570]

Manhattan braced for direct hit from Hurricane Irene I was in NYC for six weeks during the summer of 1999. It didn't rain at all, the entire city smelled like a sewer and it was oppressively hot. The day before I was to leave it finally rained. Rained so hard that the A and C line trains were shut down because the tracks were flooded. That's the main north south subway in Manhattan. That was a few inches of rain at high tide. What happens when they get twenty inches at high tide combined with a storm surge?

 

[Skeptic49]

Looks like a real test of Mayor Bloomberg.
Geoff
Who has a low opinion of hizzonor the Mayor.

 

[Javlin]

when this done you will be able to go fishing in the subways.

 

[TommyGunn]

when this done you will be able to go fishing in the subways.

Maybe but you won't want to eat what you catch ......... :help:

 

[IrishCop]

Well, I hope no one is hurt...but I doubt if Bloomberg will show near the leadership and strength that Rudy Giuliani displayed during 9/11.

Only been to NYC twice, and both visits started and ended at JFK in the 70's. Still have absolutely no desire to re-visit the city, even in that limited capacity.

 

[Javlin]

Maybe but you won't want to eat what you catch ......... :help:

Shoot TG if it gets deep enough if you fell in it might eat you You know then they will have bonfided Sharks working the subways.

Politicans/Sharks which is worse?

 

[phantom4570]

I spent six weeks working on an IT project in NYC back in 1999. I have no desire to return.

 

[phantom4570]

Where's Special Ed? His sig says Delaware which is in the path of this storm. Did he evacuate or just hunker down behind boarded up windows?

 

[SpecialEd]

Still here in Delaware. My house is in a location that doesn't flood so our main concerns are wind and power outages. Took down the canopy over our deck and put away anything that might become an airborne projectile and that's about all we can do.

 

[WaltGraham]

Popcorn fart hurricane - they were a lot more exciting when I lived in Florida.

 

[guntotin_fool]

I have a cousin who lives part time in a building his family owns on central park west. Even living like a billionaire makes the city barely palpable. I visit him about every third year for a week or so and we go to all the trendy and cool places and he spends a fortune and I'd much rather be in EBFE or some northern minnesota fishin bar than there. It's a repugnant to humanity place.

He says people are split down the middle on this one. Either freaking out as it's EOTWAWKI or shrugging their shoulders and pissed that the last weekend before labor day is a washout.