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Lol you really think the owner of that business is crying because he is losing out on a few cases of beer he could have dried off and sold?
"Oh the loss, surely those cans would have saved my store from utter ruin!"
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"Oh the loss, surely those cans would have saved my store from utter ruin!"
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Article giving more detail on the insane NYC subway flood in @greengrilledcheese 's video dump.
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Well good...lets see them ignore the story now.
Fuck new york
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Fuck new york
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Who knew that not giving a fuck about your city's infrastructure since the 50's would come back to bite you in the ass?
New York is such a shithole.
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The point isn't that the cans of beer would save the business, the point is that niggers gonna nig. Out of the million and one things they could be doing to "help" the recovery effort what are they doing? Stealing beer to fuel their laziness and waiting for someone else to do all the work.
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New Orleans is looking at weeks without power. Beer is a necessary food item when it's 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity. Scavenging isn't the same as looting. I don't think any of these businesses in the videos are going to worry about it.
It gets scarier in the residential neighborhoods. That's where the real loot is, and the real looters are. No one leaves the city with all their valuables. There will be some robbing going on and the longer it takes, the bolder the looters will be. It's butt-puckeringly worrying for evacuees.
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You missed the clown show that was Hurricane Sandy a few years back, then. That was quite the event.
NYC subway flood during Sandy:
They've been warning since that happened 9 years ago that NYC and NJ needed to overhaul their antiquated infrastructure, or else it'd happen again the next time a quality storm rolled through. Nice to see they learned jack and shit.
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Right, that was a thing. Nearly forgot that Sandy happened.
Although between that and this, the media keeps making it sound like this is the worst its ever been. I wouldn't put it past the media to have a worse case of memory loss than me, though.
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It's better for ratings if they pretend like every flood is the first flood evar, just like how every black, gay, or female protagonist in a movie is the first one ever.
Also, for no reason at all, have a bonus article about an especially weird, gross side effect of Sandy on New York -- the subway rat surge.
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I mean, in all fairness, how much would that cost? I can't imagine it's easy to sell an expensive plan like that after things have dried out.
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Except NYC likes to spend money on non-important shit like new electronic billboards that hang on city buildings.
This is the same city that will tear apart roads randomly to "make them better", and then out of nowhere just stop working on them, sometimes for months, causing retarded detours and/or blockage to where you're better off walking to your destination in the amount of time you'll be waiting in line.
Queens does this CONSTANTLY. Grand Central Pkwy & Jackie Robinson Pkwy near Forest Hills and Kew Garden Hills got torn the fuck up for whatever asinine reason. For perspective, here's what it looked like in 2018
Nothing too bad, lot's of green, traffic seems to be moving just fine.
Now what does 2019 look li...
Are you... fucking... kidding me?!
I haven't been there in a while, but I guarantee you it still looks like shit to this day.
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By the way, Ida killed some people.
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/police-at-least-7-storm-related-deaths-confirmed-in-new-york-city
Archive: https://archive.is/R1sZw
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Police: At least 8 storm-related deaths confirmed in New York City
At least eight people are dead after being found in their flooded residences early Thursday morning.
One scene included a 66-year-old Brooklyn man, who died after his basement flooded on Ridgewood Avenue. Neighbors say there were three other men in the basement who were able to get out. With a crowd of people gathering at the apartment, one man even jumped in to try and save the 66-year-old. When police came around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, the man was dead.
Severe flooding reached all the way up into the steps of homes, and completely engulfed the sidewalk leaving several cars abandoned on the streets.
Police report similar flooding events happened in Queens - an 86-year-old, a 48-year-old woman, a 43-year-old female and a 22-year-old man were reported deceased after being found in their homes.
The NYPD say three more people were confirmed dead in New York City due to flooding conditions in basement apartments - a 50-year-old man, a 48-year-old woman and a 2-year-old boy.
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Article: https://longisland.news12.com/police-at-least-7-storm-related-deaths-confirmed-in-new-york-city
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Police: At least 8 storm-related deaths confirmed in New York City
At least eight people are dead after being found in their flooded residences early Thursday morning.
One scene included a 66-year-old Brooklyn man, who died after his basement flooded on Ridgewood Avenue. Neighbors say there were three other men in the basement who were able to get out. With a crowd of people gathering at the apartment, one man even jumped in to try and save the 66-year-old. When police came around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, the man was dead.
Severe flooding reached all the way up into the steps of homes, and completely engulfed the sidewalk leaving several cars abandoned on the streets.
Police report similar flooding events happened in Queens - an 86-year-old, a 48-year-old woman, a 43-year-old female and a 22-year-old man were reported deceased after being found in their homes.
The NYPD say three more people were confirmed dead in New York City due to flooding conditions in basement apartments - a 50-year-old man, a 48-year-old woman and a 2-year-old boy.
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If I'm not mistaken, the damage from Sandy continued even to this very day. I remember in the mid-2010s and hearing my friends in New York constantly sperging about subway shutdowns due to overhauls from damage caused by Sandy. I don't know the New York subway system very well, but I believe them complaining the most about the L Train in Brooklyn especially, which was closed off for a long period of time following the post-flood repair.
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New York's fucked right now. Most subway service is suspended as they're pulling out stuck subway cars from the tunnels and drying up the rails, the highways are full of stranded cars and some roads remain flooded due to blocked drainage pipes.
Also @SSF2T Old User, yes it stills looks like that. I have no idea why they hadn't use the lockdown to speed up construction as other cities did.
Footage from the Citizen App
Also @SSF2T Old User, yes it stills looks like that. I have no idea why they hadn't use the lockdown to speed up construction as other cities did.
Footage from the Citizen App
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Not to PL but:
NYC Kiwi here: some parts got absolutely more fucked than others. My place is seemingly untouched (in fact it's sunny right now and the ground is dry). People living in illegal apartments (i.e. basement apartments) got screwed over and now have no legal right to any insurance/compensation most likely. It's a shitshow and a half for those people. BDB is out here talking about climate change and shit when we can't get our subway to stop looking like a rapids ride at a theme park every time we get more than 2" of rain.
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Most of the subway flooding from Sandy was SALT sea water that came up from the the storm surge. That salt water made things extra fucked.
This is all fresh rainwater. A lot less damaging to the wiring and track mechanicals..
600 people out in 1 housing project alone. Who knows how many out in illegal basement appartmens.
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Typical. There's your answer to why NY won't ever get fixed up properly.
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Ida's kill count is rising
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/at-least-26-deaths-blamed-on-idas-remnants-from-maryland-to-new-york
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2021090...ed-on-idas-remnants-from-maryland-to-new-york
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At least 26 deaths blamed on Ida's remnants from Maryland to New York
A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, filling low-lying apartments with water and turning roads into car-swallowing canals.
In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding but hadn't braced for such a blow from the no-longer-hurricane, the storm killed at least 26 people from Maryland to New York on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
At least 12 people died in New York City, police said, one of them in a car and eight in flooded basement apartments that often serve as relatively affordable homes in one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets. Officials said at least eight died in New Jersey and three in Pennsylvania's suburban Montgomery County; one was killed by a falling tree, one drowned in a car and another in a home. An on-duty state trooper in Connecticut was swept away in his cruiser and later taken to a hospital, state police and local authorities said.
In New York City, Deborah Torres said water rapidly filled her first-floor Queens apartment to her knees as her landlord frantically urged her neighbors below - who included a baby - to get out, she said. But the water was rushing in so strongly that she surmised they weren't able to open the door. The three residents died.
“I have no words," she said. “How can something like this happen?”
Ida's remnants lost most of the storm's winds but kept its soggy core, then merged with a more traditional storm front and dropped an onslaught of rain on the Interstate 95 corridor, meteorologists said. The situation has followed hurricanes before, but experts said it was slightly exacerbated by climate change - warmer air holds more rain - and urban settings, where expansive pavement prevents water from seeping into the ground.
The National Hurricane Center had warned since Tuesday of the potential for “significant and life-threatening flash flooding" and moderate and major river flooding in the mid-Atlantic region and New England.
Still, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the storm's strength took them by surprise.
"We did not know that between 8:50 and 9:50 p.m. last night, that the heavens would literally open up and bring Niagara Falls level of water to the streets of New York,” said Hochul, a Democrat who became governor last week after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned.
De Blasio, also a Democrat, said he'd gotten a forecast Wednesday of 3 to 6 inches (7.5 to 15 cm) of rain over the course of the day. The city's Central Park ended up getting 3.15 inches just in one hour, surpassing the previous recorded high of 1.94 inches (5 cm) in one hour during Tropical Storm Henri on Aug. 21.
The storm ultimately dumped over 9 inches (23 cm) of rain in parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and nearly as much on New York City’s Staten Island.
In Washington, President Joe Biden assured Northeast residents that federal first responders were on the ground to help clean up.
In the nation's most populous city, some highways flooded, garbage bobbed in water rushing down the streets and water cascaded into the city's subway tunnels, trapping at least 17 trains and forcing the cancelation of service throughout the night and early morning. Videos online showed riders standing on seats in cars filled with water. All riders were evacuated safely, officials said.
At one Queens development, water filled the sunken patio of a basement apartment, then broke through a glass door and rushed in, trapping a 48-year-old woman in 6 feet (2 meters) of water. Neighbors unsuccessfully tried for an hour to save her.
“She was screaming, ‘Help me, help me, help me!’ We all came to her aid, trying to get her out. But it was so strong – the thrust of the water was so strong," said the building’s assistant superintendent, Jayson Jordan.
In Elizabeth, New Jersey, near Newark Airport, four people died and 600 were left homeless from rain and river flooding in an apartment complex, Mayor J. Christian Bollwage said.
Neighbors described hearing screaming from the complex at about 11 p.m. as water flowed down the street, pushing dumpsters and cars around.
“Sandy had nothing on this,” resident Jennifer Vilchez said, referring to 2012′s Superstorm Sandy.
Greg Turner, who lives in another part of the city, said his 87-year-old mother started calling 911 from the complex at 8 p.m. when the water started rising in her apartment. He said he and his brother tried to rush to her rescue, but the water was too high.
By close to midnight, the water was up to her neck, he said. Rescuers finally were able to cut through the floor of the apartment above and pull her to safety.
“She lost everything," Turner said as he headed to a bank to get money to buy his mother some clothes and shoes.
Elsewhere in New Jersey, flooding killed two people in Hillsborough, two in Bridgewater, and one in Milford Borough, where authorities found a man's body a car buried up to its hood in dirt and rocks, authorities said.
The ferocious storm also spawned tornadoes, including one that ripped apart homes and toppled silos in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, south of Philadelphia.
Resident Ashley Thomas, her husband and their two young children rushed to their basement after hearing sirens. But after waiting for 15 minutes with debris falling on them, they bolted to the yard, said Thomas, 37. She broke several toes and has a bruise on her shoulder but was grateful her family and neighbors survived.
Record flooding along the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania inundated homes and commercial buildings, swamped highways, submerged cars and disrupted rail service in the Philadelphia area. In a tweet, city officials predicted “historic flooding” on Thursday as river levels continue to rise. The riverside community of Manayunk remained largely under water.
The Schuyilkill reached levels not seen in over 100 years in Philadelphia, where firefighters were still getting calls about minor building collapses and people stuck in flooded cars Thursday morning, Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said.
Heavy winds and drenching rains punched a hole in the roof of a U.S. Postal Service building in New Jersey. Rain rushed through a terminal at Newark International Airport Wednesday and threatened to overrun a dam in Pennsylvania. Meteorologists warned that rivers likely won’t crest for a few more days, raising the possibility of more widespread flooding.
Rescues took place all over New York City as its 8.8 million people saw much worse flooding than from Henri, which was followed by two weeks of wild and sometimes deadly weather across the nation. Wildfires are threatening Lake Tahoe, Tropical Storm Henri struck the Northeast and Ida struck Louisiana as the fifth-strongest storm to ever hit the U.S. mainland, leaving 1 million people without power, maybe for weeks.
A flash flood warning continued into Thursday in New England. Authorities used boats to rescue 18 people from a flooded neighborhood in Plainville, Connecticut, and 15 people - including one who uses a wheelchair - from a flooded complex in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. A road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, crumbled.
Parts of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where 2,200 people died after an infamous dam failure in 1889, were evacuated for a time Wednesday after water reached dangerous levels at a dam near the city. An official said later Wednesday that the water levels near the dam were receding.
In Frederick County, Maryland, first responders used a boat to rescue 10 children and a driver from a school bus caught in rising flood waters. The county's school superintendent apologized for not dismissing students earlier, The Frederick News-Post reported.
The Atlantic hurricane season is far from over. Larry became a hurricane Thursday morning, forecast to rapidly intensify into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm by Sunday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said it’s moving west but remains far from any coast.
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Article has about 200 photos that people have uploaded of Ida's wreckage. You can't "right click save" any of them, but you CAN grab from the "inspect element" feature on Chrome... but i ain't got no time for that.
Article: https://longisland.news12.com/at-least-26-deaths-blamed-on-idas-remnants-from-maryland-to-new-york
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2021090...ed-on-idas-remnants-from-maryland-to-new-york
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At least 26 deaths blamed on Ida's remnants from Maryland to New York
A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, filling low-lying apartments with water and turning roads into car-swallowing canals.
In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding but hadn't braced for such a blow from the no-longer-hurricane, the storm killed at least 26 people from Maryland to New York on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
At least 12 people died in New York City, police said, one of them in a car and eight in flooded basement apartments that often serve as relatively affordable homes in one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets. Officials said at least eight died in New Jersey and three in Pennsylvania's suburban Montgomery County; one was killed by a falling tree, one drowned in a car and another in a home. An on-duty state trooper in Connecticut was swept away in his cruiser and later taken to a hospital, state police and local authorities said.
In New York City, Deborah Torres said water rapidly filled her first-floor Queens apartment to her knees as her landlord frantically urged her neighbors below - who included a baby - to get out, she said. But the water was rushing in so strongly that she surmised they weren't able to open the door. The three residents died.
“I have no words," she said. “How can something like this happen?”
Ida's remnants lost most of the storm's winds but kept its soggy core, then merged with a more traditional storm front and dropped an onslaught of rain on the Interstate 95 corridor, meteorologists said. The situation has followed hurricanes before, but experts said it was slightly exacerbated by climate change - warmer air holds more rain - and urban settings, where expansive pavement prevents water from seeping into the ground.
The National Hurricane Center had warned since Tuesday of the potential for “significant and life-threatening flash flooding" and moderate and major river flooding in the mid-Atlantic region and New England.
Still, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the storm's strength took them by surprise.
"We did not know that between 8:50 and 9:50 p.m. last night, that the heavens would literally open up and bring Niagara Falls level of water to the streets of New York,” said Hochul, a Democrat who became governor last week after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned.
De Blasio, also a Democrat, said he'd gotten a forecast Wednesday of 3 to 6 inches (7.5 to 15 cm) of rain over the course of the day. The city's Central Park ended up getting 3.15 inches just in one hour, surpassing the previous recorded high of 1.94 inches (5 cm) in one hour during Tropical Storm Henri on Aug. 21.
The storm ultimately dumped over 9 inches (23 cm) of rain in parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and nearly as much on New York City’s Staten Island.
In Washington, President Joe Biden assured Northeast residents that federal first responders were on the ground to help clean up.
In the nation's most populous city, some highways flooded, garbage bobbed in water rushing down the streets and water cascaded into the city's subway tunnels, trapping at least 17 trains and forcing the cancelation of service throughout the night and early morning. Videos online showed riders standing on seats in cars filled with water. All riders were evacuated safely, officials said.
At one Queens development, water filled the sunken patio of a basement apartment, then broke through a glass door and rushed in, trapping a 48-year-old woman in 6 feet (2 meters) of water. Neighbors unsuccessfully tried for an hour to save her.
“She was screaming, ‘Help me, help me, help me!’ We all came to her aid, trying to get her out. But it was so strong – the thrust of the water was so strong," said the building’s assistant superintendent, Jayson Jordan.
In Elizabeth, New Jersey, near Newark Airport, four people died and 600 were left homeless from rain and river flooding in an apartment complex, Mayor J. Christian Bollwage said.
Neighbors described hearing screaming from the complex at about 11 p.m. as water flowed down the street, pushing dumpsters and cars around.
“Sandy had nothing on this,” resident Jennifer Vilchez said, referring to 2012′s Superstorm Sandy.
Greg Turner, who lives in another part of the city, said his 87-year-old mother started calling 911 from the complex at 8 p.m. when the water started rising in her apartment. He said he and his brother tried to rush to her rescue, but the water was too high.
By close to midnight, the water was up to her neck, he said. Rescuers finally were able to cut through the floor of the apartment above and pull her to safety.
“She lost everything," Turner said as he headed to a bank to get money to buy his mother some clothes and shoes.
Elsewhere in New Jersey, flooding killed two people in Hillsborough, two in Bridgewater, and one in Milford Borough, where authorities found a man's body a car buried up to its hood in dirt and rocks, authorities said.
The ferocious storm also spawned tornadoes, including one that ripped apart homes and toppled silos in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, south of Philadelphia.
Resident Ashley Thomas, her husband and their two young children rushed to their basement after hearing sirens. But after waiting for 15 minutes with debris falling on them, they bolted to the yard, said Thomas, 37. She broke several toes and has a bruise on her shoulder but was grateful her family and neighbors survived.
Record flooding along the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania inundated homes and commercial buildings, swamped highways, submerged cars and disrupted rail service in the Philadelphia area. In a tweet, city officials predicted “historic flooding” on Thursday as river levels continue to rise. The riverside community of Manayunk remained largely under water.
The Schuyilkill reached levels not seen in over 100 years in Philadelphia, where firefighters were still getting calls about minor building collapses and people stuck in flooded cars Thursday morning, Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said.
Heavy winds and drenching rains punched a hole in the roof of a U.S. Postal Service building in New Jersey. Rain rushed through a terminal at Newark International Airport Wednesday and threatened to overrun a dam in Pennsylvania. Meteorologists warned that rivers likely won’t crest for a few more days, raising the possibility of more widespread flooding.
Rescues took place all over New York City as its 8.8 million people saw much worse flooding than from Henri, which was followed by two weeks of wild and sometimes deadly weather across the nation. Wildfires are threatening Lake Tahoe, Tropical Storm Henri struck the Northeast and Ida struck Louisiana as the fifth-strongest storm to ever hit the U.S. mainland, leaving 1 million people without power, maybe for weeks.
A flash flood warning continued into Thursday in New England. Authorities used boats to rescue 18 people from a flooded neighborhood in Plainville, Connecticut, and 15 people - including one who uses a wheelchair - from a flooded complex in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. A road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, crumbled.
Parts of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where 2,200 people died after an infamous dam failure in 1889, were evacuated for a time Wednesday after water reached dangerous levels at a dam near the city. An official said later Wednesday that the water levels near the dam were receding.
In Frederick County, Maryland, first responders used a boat to rescue 10 children and a driver from a school bus caught in rising flood waters. The county's school superintendent apologized for not dismissing students earlier, The Frederick News-Post reported.
The Atlantic hurricane season is far from over. Larry became a hurricane Thursday morning, forecast to rapidly intensify into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm by Sunday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said it’s moving west but remains far from any coast.
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Article has about 200 photos that people have uploaded of Ida's wreckage. You can't "right click save" any of them, but you CAN grab from the "inspect element" feature on Chrome... but i ain't got no time for that.