Footage of the Gantries Flooded
Wow. From: Daniel Reynolds
Probably the biggest LIC loss: Shady Park
Thanks to Ananda Lima
Shady Park now Sunny Police Park
Devastated. .
7 Shocking NYC Flooding Videos
In this surreal footage, water gushes into the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. With the exception of the Lincoln Tunnel, all major bridges and tunnels in and out of Manhattan were closed on Monday, leaving the island almost completely isolated. The water level at Battery Park was measured at a record 13.88 feet. The storm also pummeled […]
New York City after Hurricane Sandy: Outages, fire, destruction
NEW YORK (AP) — Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East killing 10 people in New York City and leaving the nation’s largest city eerily quiet Tuesday, with no running trains, a darkened business district and neighborhoods under water. It was “a devastating storm, maybe the worst that we have ever experienced,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who […]
Assessing the Damage From Hurricane Sandy
More than six million customers lost power Monday as Hurricane Sandy felled trees, downed power lines and flooded substations. The storm led to power failures in at least 17 states, including more than a million customers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and about 660,000 in New York City. Roughly a quarter million customers lost power […]
A Dutch Solution for New York’s Storm Surge Woes?
Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier, the Netherlands Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge did a number on New York City, flooding lower Manhattan, inundating the subway system, triggering fires and power outages, and causing other widespread damage that will take a long time to repair. As this New York Times story from September notes, the city has been […]
Hurricane Sandy slams Long Island City
By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers Hunters Point in Long Island City, many blocks of which were in the city’s designated Zone A, sustained significant flood damage as tropic storm Sandy spread its devastation across the borough. Among the Queens’ victims who suffered severe damage was U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R-Forest Hills), whose house in Breezy […]
High water line
On Gantry Park buildings
Shortages! And surplus
Only Food Cellar open today. Desperate shoppers faced empty bins for bread, paper towels, and grated PARMESAN! See the full gallery on Posterous
Last night: Flooded Streets
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Storm threatens local man’s emotional return home
MAPLE VALLEY, Wash. — While most people run away from a hurricane, Ryan Light is sprinting towards it — or, at least, he’s trying to. “I have mixed emotions about going back,” Light said, from his home in Maple Valley. “I always said I would never go back there.” Light spent his childhood in the […]
Sandy leaves New York powerless
Across the Hudson, a parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. Photo: Charles Sykes / AP Across the Hudson, a parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as… A construction site sinks into a large hole on South Street […]
Staten Island & NYC rocked by storm: Hurricane Sandy aftermath at a glance
ALBANY, N.Y. — Here is a look at the situation around New York State in the wake of Hurricane Sandy: POWER OUTAGES: About 2.2 million customers without electricity. EVACUATIONS: 375,000 people were ordered to leave flood-prone zones in Staten Island and around New York City. SHELTERS: More than 3,600 people at 76 shelters in New […]
Water, fire, destruction: NYC after the superstorm
A construction site sinks into a large hole on South Street Seaport following Hurraicane Sandy October 30, 2012 in Manhattan, New York.The storm has claimed at least 16 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. US President Barack Obama has declared the situation a ‘major disaster’ […]
Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake
ALLEN G. BREED,Associated PressTOM HAYS,Associated Press Published: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7:36 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7:36 a.m. New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center. […]
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