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Postcards From An Underwater New York
Once the surge levees break, the water level just soars and covers everything in a "reverse Titanic" as the following pictures demonstrate:
Ground Zero (via AP)
Hoboken PATH station (via @garywhitta)
Avenue C and 13th Street (via iWitness Weather):
Lower East Side:
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is flooding... (via @NewsBreaker)
The Belt Parkway fully underwater
Stunning view of the lower manhattan black out (via @nicksummers)
14th Street Transformer exploding! (via @georgeweld)
Floating Cop cars in lower east side (via David Schulz)
More as we see it.
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As much as I dislike a lot that comes out of New York , I wouldn't wish ill will to the people there. Most of them are like us just trying to scratch out a living.
Any follow up news on the nuclear power plants??
Do you really want to know?
Ya... so I can short nuclear companies stocks...
/and for the people's safety...
They call this shit a hurricane??
Just some drizzle & a gentle breeze....
Yeah, and like a gabillion gallons of water.
pods
Gabillion? Is that the term for the next QE?
And Lloyd's subsequent bonus.
.
Not exactly. It's the unit which will be used in about six months to describe the Bernank's monthly QEmesis purchases of MBS crap.
I thought it was a Trillion plus 12 zeros
extended family reports from Staten and Long Island are not good.
5 blocks in and counting.
Be well.
- #NYPD have multiple victims w/ hypothermia in the water in the street no clothing. Calling for buses but they can't drive in the water #nyc
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetards.
- RT @mdsha: WB I-68 @ Garrett/Allegany line CLOSED. Multiple disabled trucks blocking rd - blizzard conditions #MDSandy
- GovChristie If conditions are not safe on Wednesday for Trick or Treating, I will sign an Executive Order rescheduling #Halloween.
LOL! The fat guy needs his candy!
- WNYC AM 820 temporarily off air due to rising waters at NJ transmitter site. Get the latest on #sandy at 93.9 FM and
- Jersey city being flooded... (like a dam broke!)
- We have just been warned NOT to go downstairs. The lobby to 4 New York Plaza is now flooded.
- Port Authority has closed Goethals Bridge. Now all Staten Island Crossings are shut down. #sandy
- Basement apartments that should have evac did not. Now, in the dark. PD can't get to them, urgent bad situation. #NYPD doing stellar heroics
- BREAKING: FDNY headquarters on Grand St. being evacuated by boat. #Sandy
People are REALLY STOOOOOOOOOOPID!
Who's keeping track for NYC Darwin Awards v.Sandy?
Uncle Janet.
She looka like a man.
Asian market opening slightly higher.
All those manufacturers getting bullish about Sandy because they can sell us a bunch of shit to fix up after the storm, shit we don't make anymore.
Kayaks, boats, sewer lids, pruners, saws, axe heads, gas cans, etc.
Ahhhh, dude, you forgot bullish on replacement CRANES!!!!!!
Those are probably German built cranes.
Maybe Korean, or a U.S. Company that was bought out by a ChiComm firm levered by FoxCon - banking by UBS - but you have a point.
plausible deniability - The crew couldn't go up to lower the boom and secure it because it was unsafe.
reality - the crane was 30 years old and due for recertification.
conclusion - well thank god no one was hurt, the crane was insured
Owned by Lend Lease (Australian Building Company).
That Fucking crane drivers getting the Sack. Jib needed to be down just clear of the Building top out and base pivot on Free wheel so it turned away from the wind. Fucking Wet back operator can go back across the border with his pink slip.
And we can trade them some MBSs, CDSs, CDOs, and a few other initialed items that aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
"Shit we don't make anymore" and thus have to buy more than once.
Planned obsolescence has no soul.
toxic wallboard.
Bullish
- RT @pketron There is wind coming out of our toilet on the 9th floor. What.
LOL
- As the evac happens, they have a multi-dwelling fire in Coney Island. They high water surge happening now. #sandy
- Official MTA Twitter account confirms that NYC Subway is flooded.
- The VA Medical Center on East 23rd St. in Manhattan is dark. Celeste Katz/NY Daily News
- Due to floodwaters generated by #Sandy, the Port Authority has closed LaGuardia Airport until further notice.
- NYC wind gusting up to 80mph
- Brooklyn/Battery Tunnel is now flooding..
Subways being flooded... salt water + electric lines/subway system = not good
http://twitter.com/buckyturco/status/263077814788583424/photo/1
FucKashima'd
And to think there were people on this site poo-pooing this storm as Media Hype!
Fuck all of you hacks. There was a Cat 1 storm that recently hit New Orleans. It sat there and went round and round, dumped a tion of water on the poor city. This is only a few hours in, and just look at it.
Horrible. I amy not be a big fan of New York, but i would not wish this on anyone.
Well, the banksters deserve it. ;-)
Overblown hype.
Riiiiight. Evacuation zones C being flooded...and waves being much higher than predicted... seems like hype to me... /sarc
First huricane eh Buba? Well shit happens.
Funny how the NATIONAL media only covers these things 24/7 when it's happening in their own backyard or there's a political point to be made that serves their masters (e.g. Katrina).
Yeah, it's a tragedy. Innocent people are going to suffer. They always do. It is truly sad.
"OH, BUT...BUT it's New York! Soooo many people. The power nexus of the world!"
Sorry, that don't cut it with me. Remember the last huricane to hit the Texas coast?
Thought not. By huricane standards it was a small one, Cat 2 I think, but in Sep 2008 it was barelling toward the fourth largest city in this country with 20% of the crude refining capacity in the immeditae area. Ike hit and inflicted massive damage to those poor folks and barely a peep from the fucking national media! Probably because there was a "bigger" story going on that involved how to bail out the power boys in NYC.
Check out these pics of the aftermath: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html
Now do you have a fucking clue why some people might be a little pissed off at the level of national news coverage that this storm is getting??????
As I said, it really is sad whats happening to people in Sandy's path. I hope they're safe. Hell, yankees are a hardy crew and will bounce back from this like they do everything. But don't get me started on the excessive national media coverage of this storm.
Shit. Too late you already did!
I follow every big hurricane. Wherever it hits. And yeah, it's quite ridiculous that NYC get all the attention now when everywhere else gets ignored.
/but this is still one in a century + storm.
//and I ain't from NYC... FAR FROM IT.
Yeah, I guess the lack of national coverage on Ike is really a sore point for me. I had lived, for 15+ years, only a few dozen miles from where it hit land and have many close friends there. There was virtually no coverage from the MSM on it and being so far away it was pretty frustrating trying to find out what was going on.
Sandy is one of a kind, glad to see she sped up.
Frank Billingsley did a hella job, though. Kudos to Frank!
:D
my bad. what do you do? i mean...phuck. shit. god damn. New York Harbor is REALLY deep...that is a HUGE body of water. It's now on land...at some point it will be back where it came from. Obviously the City is going to be down all week...maybe longer. The property damage is already staggering. The National Guard will have to be called in....maybe even the regular Army itself. An opening towards understanding how connected we all truly are? Will look forward to the President's speech.
statue of liberty http://instagram.com/p/RYelAiwl5f/
"YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!"
(Charlton Heston 1968)
9 months from now big spike in birth rate - buy stock in Pampers, Enfamil, Sealy, Carters, etc. (oh, and SNAP, Welfare, WalMart).
Long rubbers! Ok, in my case, Short Rubbers!
No rubbers, you're defeating my market play.
Now get busy doing God's work, will 'ya!?!?
I'm a primate porking a pigskin! (Monkey Fuckin' a Football for you slow fellers) Of course I'm doing God's work!
Thank god NBC's "The Voice" isn't being interrupted for this....
We are about to find out what happens when an overpopulated island gets cut off from the mainland, whilst it hasn't had any food imports since last tuesday, n what happens if its too flooded to escape...
Granted I have absolutely no basis for my assertion, but I'm pretty sure that once the tide goes out all the water will recede back off the island as well. Well, other than basements, the subway system that lacks sufficient water pump systems, etc. But all the other water. So I think it will be just fine.
It should recede leaving it alot of places clear, but my thought is, they are pretty low on food already with transportation fuxed, few bridges and stuff get damaged even when the water recedes its major trouble.
I feel like its become hip to label this storm "hype". The facts are: it's breaking records, power outages are very wide spread, and people are starting to die.
Even the hurricanes hate our freedom!
War on earth. That stupid bitch has been trying to kill us since we crawled out of the primordial ooze. Time to set that bitch straight.
Those Trump women are hot.
http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/7/9/791xmvt9sn91mxt7.jpg
- "Fire under the subway" just reported on CNBC by Dave Holder.
- Flooding in the lobby at Daily News in lower Manhattan has now reached three feet. And it's six feet deep outside.
- RT @stormcentral1st: Hugh Carey Tunnel Subway Line is starting to flood in lower Manhattan.
- RT @wunderground: The Battery tide gauge shows a storm tide of 13.46 feet now, approaching high tide. #NYC #Sandy
- REPORT: Heavy volumes of water on West St + Washington St. Cars floating down West St. Little water at #WTC so far #Sandy
10/29 never farget!!
Sandy was an inside job.
It shows what happens when desaster strikes which was predictable for days. Now imagine desaster strikes out of the blue and has no forewarning. All evidence points to the same conclusion. Always.
Bush's fault
Actually, it's Obama's fault. That's what he gets for dumping Osama's enchanted remains off USS Carl Vinson - a pissed off freedom-hatin' terrorist ocean!
To be fair, Obama inherited this...
lol...reap the whirlwind...nicely done.
Imagine what he inherits if he gets re-elected.
terrorists have done massively less damage to New York than the NY States own epic failure to address flood defences
the photos are horrific of the colossal damage caused by the goon-governing, regulatory and public health patronising, stupid scum of Govt
It's really unfortunate that the government did not spend trillions to build higher flood walls to protect NY. Contradict yourself much? Besides, what evidence do you have that anyone private or public put forth a plan that government rejected that could have prevented this damage from a flood of historic proportions?
NY citys sea walls are the States responsibility, it's public land
you need any further clarification of responsibilities?
Actually, it's Bernanke's fault for providing too much liquidity.
lol. Post of the year material.
It's not his fault. He is merely the spokesperson for the Octopus par evil who takes orders.
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=7392
Ha, thanks.. I love this shit..
Was listening to various ones during Katrina...
We're going to need a bigger island!
This is America... It can't happen here!
And what about the poor Mole People?
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/13/nyregion/in-tunnel-mole-people-fight-t...
Please. They prefer "Morlocks."
I can only imagine what would happen to a Chevy Volt in this mess.
lithium-ion style viking funeral
Nahh we had one of those already tonight at the Con Ed generating station.....
Reports of looting in NYC...
I thought the NYSE was closed for the day.
The NYSE loots the entire world, not just NYC.
At least the criminals will have guns tonight......too bad the law abiding citizens are out of luck.
Of all the states that do issue carry pistol licenses, New York State has arguably the strictest handgun licensing policies in the nation.[1] New York City, which is effectively a "No-Issue" jurisdiction for carry pistol licenses,[8] has even stricter laws, including those regulating handguns exclusively kept at home.[9]
stateside
Please god, let that crane fall on Corzine, Bernanke, or Geithner!
Sounds like it's all going to shit over there. Wager we won't be open for business this entire week. Then what happens?
By then everyone will have forgotten about the abysmal earnings quarter, the election will be over and it's up up up and away for another year, based on a new hope!
With NY out, the elections might get called off and postponed. Infrastructure in & out of NY seems to get completely destroyed. That will take time to repair. They can't simply run new cable through subway tunnels and hope for the best. Expect state of emergency to be extended and possibly martial law put into effect.
So what. Who cares if NYC votes or not?? They will vote for Obama anyways. Give the state to Obama... and they'll vote for the other issues in December... And to delay presidential elections, congress needs to do it... Obama can't do it on it's own... maybe the governor of NY can delay the election for his state only... but that's it.
- 13 1/2 feet at Battery Park, 2 1/2 feet higher than 1821. Fire Dept in East Village had to be rescued by boats.
- National Guard trucks have moved in to lower Manhattan; Pearl & Whitehall streets underwater; Staten Island Ferry Terminal also underwater.
Good thing Wall Street is being completly flooded.
/and good thing I visited NYC a month ago...
Erin burnet on CNN . Dressed in her official CNN rain slickers and upto her ankles in water in battery park.
O/T
I still don't notice any wedding ring on her finger( all these years)
I wonder if shes a woman's woman just like Hillary?
Maybe the leaky tramp needs to keep that slicker on.
Just imagine when a major tsunami hits this place someday...
LaPalma... aw yeah.
That or a big earthquake in the middle of the atlantic...
I would really be much more worried about CASCADIA going off... especially with the very recent 7.7 on the west coast of Canada... (3rd biggest in Canada's recorded history)... foreshock? Cascadia is overdue...
We didnt even feel it here on Vancouver Island, while Hawaii went Full Retard over nothing.
You need to calm down.
Did I say I was panicking over the 7.7 earhquake? That earthquake and Cascadia going off are 2 totally different things. Cascadia going off will bring massive devastation. That's not me saying it, it's history... and geologists... or maybe you're italian and hate geologists and want to put them in prison? /I kid
Im suggesting the earthquake you mentioned didnt do a damn thing out here, so why bring it up.
As a possible Cascadia foreshock... read on earthquakes...
FYI: rats swim
correct. you need to drown them.
FYI : There's 32 million rats in NYC... + the banksters.
so the NY bankers are all underwater but the rats can swim ..i'm confused!
Baywatch Ben and his 7th issue of QE water wings for the Wall Streeters who can't swim
Been through enough of these damn storms.
I hope as many people found somewhere safe to be as possible and godspeed on the recovery from the damage.
Peace
From financially underwater to actually underwater.
History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of men.
with a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM
- USGS issued landslide alerts for Northeastern Maryland, Northern Delaware, and Southeastern Pennsylvania.
- Water level still rising in Lower Manhattan. Now 13.8ft -- 2.3ft above previous record. Storm surge has exceeded 9ft. #Sandy
- East River is overtopping the Roosevelt and flowing into the park at the bottom of her street.
Damage is probably gonna be way bigger than anticipated... Krugman has probably already passed out from all the jerking off he has been doing.
I'm up in CT but work in Manhattan. It's going BAT-SHIT CRAZY there.
Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
Travis Bickle: Hey I can't complain, destruction is GDP positive, that's what my friend krugman told me anyway.
Please refer to post on the negative aspect of destruction about the baker who could have had a new suit and no broken windows and now his window is fixed but has not got the new suit........
Great story really, even Bernanke might understand it on a bright day...... oh shit, it is cloudy Today!!!
Likewise, the Japanese Tsunami and the earthquake could have sent the Japanese economy into a boom, .....did not happen!!!!
Postcards from the past AKA this sandy bs is just that BS
http://photos.oregonlive.com/photo-essay/2011/08/tropical_storm_irene_no...
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/02/new-york-city-lin...
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/27/164260.html
http://www.urbanchristiannews.com/ucn/2011/08/damage-left-by-hurricane-i...
http://www.vosizneias.com/90238
Hoboken Subway Station about to be flooded (pic above).
Yeah....sure looks like hYPe to me.
Some of u dix here should get a fuckin clue.
That picture's pretty wild, look's like you're inside a sinking ship.
Meh. It's only New Jersey. What do they say about Jersey girls? Jersey girls ain't trash, trash gets picked up...
Obama doesn't care about hipsters!!
A shark on 142nd street... sharks in NYC... neat.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3451209/Images/New/Personal/76629_4197657412186_...
Some more pics.
http://www.businessinsider.com/battery-park-flooding-2012-10?0=bi
Report that NYSE has 3 feet of water on the trading floor??
OMG, hahahaha
Nice. Get the bull off Wall Street and put a statue of hurricane Sandy instead.
The tears of floor traders?
Dammit, apparently might be BS
Grr...
Yeah I know but it is very nice to visualize!!!! :)
MY GOD, THE MAYANS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG!!!
FDNY fighting MASSIVE fire in Queens. 5 buildings involved. 3 collapsed. FDNY rescued more than 2 dozen people who were trapped."
Shiat...
Uh-huh...must be that OTHER Queens, since I'm in NYC and there's no massive fire in Queens....
Far Rock, huge
It took an act of God to flood the HFT computers in the basement of the NYSE and thereby stop the fraud--at least for a couple days. Drowned algos commit no fraud.
Go God.
No water on the NYSE floor - unfounded rumor... God is dead... again.
- Report over scanner of multiple houses on fire, electricity in the water, civilians on the streets. Staten Island, I think. "We need power cut off now."
Thanks for the breaking news dude, lots o info! ZH Scanner!
If it's the same one, then it's Brooklyn...
Sandbags failllll :
http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/259321/slide_259321_1696656_fre...
a link to HuffPost
pig
Yeah I feel dirty. Here's a youtube video of a high voltage transformer blowing up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ
Clearly, this is happening because Nature hates our freedom.
Time to burn down the Amazon forest.
Where's the TV preacher spouting off about how this is God's judgment on New York?
all that and $12 for a pack of smokes. yeah I'm glad I left.
Con Ed explosions at E 14th:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ
3 minutes in. A dozen explosions or more. Wow.
reminds me of fran. brings back bad memories of a very long night.
After 4 years with virtually no income maybe I should grab my chainsaws and head east and work some HUGE hours clearing trees?
you serious. what about heading north.
I guess god sends Lloyd Blankfein and the bankers his thank you for doing Gods Work.
There's lots of reports of people drowning because they stayed in their basements... REALLY PEOPLE??? REALLY???
oh shit I read the wrong nanny.gov page
http://www.ready.gov/tornadoes
I'm not sad for all the adults who drowned because of their stupidity... Darwin and all that... but I'm sad if any kid died because of their parents stupid behavior...
Thank you for exposing your complete lack of humanity. So stupid people should just die, because you've never made a mistake and never will, right? Like believing that the news was just hyping this storm and it was not really dangerous, as many on ZH believed before tonight? I've read probably 100 posts here to that effect over the last 24 hours, many of whom were convinced the government was lying and overstating the threat. Had those folks lived in NY, they would have stayed assuming they were being honest about their beliefs. They would have made a mistake. So die fuckers. At least you are honest about your lack of empathy for fellow human beings (unless they are children, though I wonder at what age cut-off you think stupidity should be a death sentence for them) and your view that you are the only adult person on the planet worth the air.
are you totally insane? and void of humor too?
this is America the land of illertacie food stams and Mike the Mom. If .gov says head to the cellar WTF head to the cellar. And if you're ankle deep in water at what point do say time to head on upstairs, or do you just say nope I'm going to hold my breath and stay in the saferoom in the basement.
more people were killed in America in car crashes between 7am and 7:30 am today then will die in this storm
I'm convinced the gubmint was lying and overstated the threat. I live in NYC and stayed.
1st world problems. I feel a lot more sympathetic to the 60 people who died in the Carribean as a result of this storm than those "suffering" and starting fires in the tristate area. The folks in the Carribean didn't stand a chance.
Minor home repairs in the tristate area should not be costing the taxpayers $20 billion.
And because of TARP, I believe that Wall Street has that money. See the fiscall cliff? We're BROKE!
Geebus, I hope that flood insurance was covered in the high rents/mortgages/HOA fees that they shelled out.
Are the realtors comping their flood insurance and the deductibles?
I wonder how much of that triple tax they paid into that they're gonna recieve back. Maybe they should thnk again before throwing that kind of money at standard houses on the market.
Stupidity is a serious 1st world problem because they force everyone else to suffer on their junky behalf. .
Where are these reports? LOL...there's one person dead in NYC so far, from a falling tree...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/12-Injured-in-Queens-Fire-3-Alarm-B...
You realize that's from August, right?
that's kind of the point
if Mikey slips in the tub tonight it will be Sandy's fault
this is being hyped beyond belief
Another 1000 feet higher, soak for a few hours, then switch to spin cycle. Wash the banksters down the drain. Gotta admit, never thought of this approach.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-07-18/news/32734362_1_alarm-fire-bu...
Ok Trav we get it, the radiation is harmless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpEI3njoeo
You realize that's from July, right?
Remember the old amphibious car?"Honey,let's go for a little drive tonight, she hasn't been out for a bit"
Pretty pictures.
The Sodomites get what is coming to them.
How did futures get to sub 1400 if their is no trading???????
SnP closed 1410 yesterday.
Fuck kevin henry.
Short ther SnP.