NYC not enjoying new monsoon season

The movie "The Day after Tomorrow" is coming true.

That looks awful. Stay safe.

R1- I’ve seen that movie several times. It is a main stream mass Market movie, but I still like it.

Fuck that! What do people in basement apartments do?

Regret their life choices.

The upside is the subway stations get some of the filth washed off them.

How does the water not become a lethal danger when it comes into contact with the electrified "third rail?"

R7 Exactly. Those passengers look surprisingly calm for people who are below ground in a space filling with moving water. It almost looks generated by AI.

Shit happens… we saw this before with Sandy, etc. the IRT line is over a hundred years old. It is vulnerable based on drainage conditions outside the MTA’s control.

R4. In Queens, the last time this happened, many died …often in illegal units.

There was a lovely older gentlemen who worked at New London Pharmacy on 8th Ave (one of the last of the old family-owned businesses in Chelsea). He drowned in his Queens apt.

[Quote] What do people in basement apartments do?

Call them “garden apartments” and develop asthma.

Landlords of basement apts can advertise that it comes complete with indoor swimming pool and charge 10x more.

Water spurting from a subway platform in a 1 train station in Manhattan on Monday night was a result of the city’s antiquated sewage system, said Janno Lieber, the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways. The sewer system can handle roughly 1.75 inches of rainfall per hour, but heavy rain last night exceeded that capacity, he said. After millions of gallons of water were pumped out of the system, subway service was largely back to normal Tuesday morning.

—NYT

Things are going swimmingly....

NYS MTA!

I was so creeped out by that story about the old guy whose body was found drowned in his own (illegal) basement apartment, during a similar sudden flood. The water filled the entire apartment up to the ceiling.

I'd be freaking out if I was on that train. It looks to be coming out of one source on the platform??? How??

It was an overflow from the street sewer outlet above.

Yeah I don't understand people inside that train seeming so calm - I'd be having a full on panic attack. I was thankfully home already from work by the time the storm started last night. I hear the airports were all fucked up last night through today though - that seems to be the lingering effect since my commute this morning on the subway was perfectly normal.

The weather on the platform will rush onto the track bed, not the train cars, unless you open the doors.

Nancy Lee Grahn — is Miss Orthmar your aunt?

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX BY THE LEFT TO TRY AND TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT WITH THE GREEN BAD DEAL!!!