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Tornado in Brooklyn, NY?
Posted by DeathSweep • 8/09/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: floating cars, flood, ny, tornado
What gives with that??!! Everyone alright?
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Tornado in Brooklyn, NY? Yes.
The news says that a twister touched down in Staten Island and in Brooklyn. 40 homes or more homes were damaged. This is all from the news.
The New York Governor wants the MTA to explain why the storm shut down the trains. He may have a point. The rain amounted to 3 inches in 3 hours. In some parts of the world, that's not all that much. I wouldn't know about New York City.-
3 inches in 3 hours would cause a problem for some of the trains in the D.C. area. When everything's built up, where's the water going to run? The subways are one place.
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This is not something abnormal.
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Not abnormal? The tornado or the rain or the subway delays? True subway delays in NY are an everyday event, 3 inches of rain completely stoppinfg the subway system, not impossible, but a Tornado ripping down 5th ave or 86th St. in Brooklyn? You saw history yesterday. Hate to differ with you but a tornado in Brooklyn is something "extremely" abnormal.
DS
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the tornado is abnormal - first in over 100 years I think the news said?
Also, the rain knocking otu ALL trains was hightly abnormal. Me and my tired feetsies couldn't beleive it.-
I moved out of Brooklyn almost 20 years ago and had to walk over the bridge from Manhattan a couple of times because of either a blackout or transit strike but never the weather. I couldn't believe it when I saw it on the news. Glad you're OK.
DS
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I lived in NYC for many years. Three inches is a very big deal, especially for cross-borough transportation (read: the subway system). When there is a lot of rain like that it all floods the subway system and once the waterline breaches the third rail (where the power comes from) they have to shut it down, which in turn, creates pandemonium. -
Yeop, ex-NYC dweller here too. That much rain in that little time would certainly screw up the train system, even if only for a little while. Not to mention, there may have been some worry with the elevated trains - many of the subways have stretches above ground. With twisters in Brooklyn, it may have been a legitimate concern. -
The weather is getting more and more intense. They've predicted that NY is due for a hurricane. We're not prepared for one either, nor are we prepared for an earthquake, which we live in the biggest fault line! Can you just imagine? -
I'm a native New Yorker and the issue is more then just the subways, its the entire underground. First of all the system is suppose to handle that much rain and water, they have a ton of pumps. Two years ago they had the same amount and everything was shutdown, I remember because I walked thirty blocks in the vertical rain. MTA got money at the time to add more pumps and said it wouldn't happen again... so the mayor has every right.
As for the Tornado - The UN just put a report out about weird weather - www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0736326820070807 - which isn't an answer but interesting it was put out the same day as the Tornado. -
Blame it on global warming. Mother natures's haves becoming have-nots and have-nots becoming haves. -
Terrymundo you must know then that the MTA are notorious for being crooks. There is a very long old rift between Albany and them. It politics. It's business as usual. The MTA also demanded a few times in the past decade that they needed fare increases because of potential budget shortfalls but was revealed they were cooking the books. Sorry to get O.T. but when things like this happen (a storm or something) it has a way of revealing how vulnerable and shoddy the NYC civic infrastructure is.
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