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New Yorkers wade through underground
lakes as subway stations flood

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Posted By: Ribicon, 7/9/2021 1:55:55 AM

Taking the subway? Make sure to pack a lifeboat! Heavy rains caused titanic-level floods at several Big Apple train stations Thursday—forcing some desperate New Yorkers to wade through subterranean lakes just to get on with their commute. Shocking video showed a woman walking into waist-deep water as she attempted to reach the platform at the 157th Street No. 1 train station in Washington Heights. The “pour” straphanger had water up to her ankles as she descended the stairs—before she plopped into the underground pond. She continued moving, undeterred, holding a shopping bag up in the air. One man was spotted trudging through the knee-deep water,

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*, Steven Vago and Tamar Lapin
NYC MTA got about $14.5 billion thus far in covid relief to the grossly mismanaged NYC mass transit money pit; that's $44.18 borrowed on behalf of every man, woman, and child in the USA. NYC itself in the March 2021 stimulus got $38 billion; $115.77 taken from every man, woman, and child in New America, going just to New York City. And before that, the Rotten Apple received other fortunes to Build Back Better™ its transit systems and other infrastructure after Stuporstorm Sandy. Did they spend on anything useful, say, fixing drainage systems as they were supposed to do? Of course not, and already their politicians are blaming Global Warming.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: itsonlyme 7/9/2021 2:11:26 AM (No. 839939)
Taxi Driver/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." Have A Nice Day!
22 people like this.

Reply 2 - Posted by: Rotten in Denmark 7/9/2021 7:13:06 AM (No. 840021)
Eye luv nooo yoak…yeah, right.
6 people like this.

Reply 3 - Posted by: ROLFNader 7/9/2021 7:27:58 AM (No. 840034)
Liberals really know how to run things- don't they?
10 people like this.

Reply 4 - Posted by: Rama41 7/9/2021 8:12:23 AM (No. 840080)
Wading through waist deep water in New York? Imagine what a toxic and fetid brew that is.
16 people like this.

Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 7/9/2021 8:18:27 AM (No. 840088)
This could be God's first warning that New York needs a good cleaning out. Those who do not pay attention are in for more serious measures.
6 people like this.

Reply 6 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 7/9/2021 8:21:27 AM (No. 840093)
It couldn't happen to a nicer place. The feeling of wading through knee-deep water complete with floating dead rats must be interesting.
11 people like this.

Reply 7 - Posted by: czechlist 7/9/2021 8:57:47 AM (No. 840137)
An object lesson in Anthropogenic Climate Change. Political Climate. Stupid humans voting for dims.
5 people like this.

Reply 8 - Posted by: bighambone 7/9/2021 9:01:26 AM (No. 840140)
The lady on the video trying to walk through deep water to reach a subway platform below to catch a train is on a fool’s errand. Once a subway station floods the trains cannot run through them, as the trains are powered by electricity, and once the water touches the third rail from where the trains draw their power are shorted out nothing works until the water is removed and the electric systems are reset.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: SilkCity 7/9/2021 9:36:35 AM (No. 840182)
OP comments spot on. How long had this been happening? Forever; it's hardly a surprise.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mc squared 7/9/2021 11:11:07 AM (No. 840305)
Why all the bitching? MTA Interim Transit President Sarah Feinberg insisted that “Drains are working remarkably well.”. So there!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: RayLRiv 7/9/2021 12:09:57 PM (No. 840373)
At least the rats floating on turds won't have trouble commuting...
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Reply 12 - Posted by: subal 7/9/2021 12:49:48 PM (No. 840423)
New Yorkers enjoying a democratic run city!
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