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However bad your day is tomorrow, it can't be as bad as being stuck in the middle of that mess. (Generally speaking.)
2
I just read where NYC 9-1-1 dispatch is receiving 10,000 calls per hour.
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Pray
4
Thank Jesus for surface transit like cars and buses.

Overpriced rail and vulnerable tunnels aren't good answer.
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@4 I take it you haven't. seen all the pictures of submerged cars sitting on flooded streets.
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I live in Manhattan and my day will be fine.
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Also, more accurate @4: "maybe providing only the absolute bare minimum of funding to transit agencies isn't the answer"
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Am I the only one who saw that only 13 people had died in this horror and thought, wow, that's not very many? I'm sure the casualty count will climb, but perhaps not by too much, and that's A Good Thing.
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@8 yeah. It could be so much worse... But it isn't over. Now we have to clean up and rebuild.

Maybe it's time to start shifting new York away from the coast? Rising sea levels etc.
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@9

That's just not feasible. What you need is better sea walls, pumps, drainage, etc. When something like this was a 100 year storm, it made sense to gamble on not paying for those things. But when Sandy becomes a 10 year storm, you need to pay for mitigation in advance.
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@8

I would be astonished if more people weren't killed in Breezy Point.
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@11 has a point. 80 houses burnt down.

Please wait...

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