Crazy photo of Manhattan flooding.

[charlie and algernon]

[Historic NY]

1. Its an island surrounded by water...

how soon people forget.

[NoPasaran]

24. Just like most islands, actually

[Historic NY]

35. Except this one is bigger than it was designed by nature to be....

garbage filling & dredging have expanded it bounds. Lord knows what is buried there.

[renate]

2. OMG.

Are you there?

[charlie and algernon]

4. No, I'm surviving the storm in Maryland

This photo is going around Facebook now.

[skeewee08]

3. WOW!!!!!

[flamingdem]

5. Is that guy trying to keep his Volvo from floating away?

Yikes, I think this is a first in NY. I'm amazed.

[Barack_America]

11. I'm thinking that's a woman and an older model Chrysler.

Let it go, lady. It's not a ship worthy of going down with.

[A HERETIC I AM]

34. According to comedian John Pinnette.....

"If it doesn't have a casino and a buffet, it isn't seaworthy"

[DollarBillHines]

6. Now, THERE is a fool.

It ain't the swirling water, it's what's in it.

That water is moving fast.

The car is already fucked, dude.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Dude is going for a Darwin Award.

It takes only 2 feet of water to float a car.
Every year people are killed by driving thru standing water and being swept away.
EVERY year.
And this guy is thinking..what? He is going to pull his car to a dry spot?

[Fawke Em]

28. I think there is someone else in the car...

Look at the passenger's side.

Maybe dude isn't a Darwin Award candidate, but a concerned parent/spouse/child?

[FSogol]

38. It only takes 6 inches of water to float a car.

You only have to overcome the surface area of the part of the tires touching the ground. Very small area.

[JimDandy]

7. Did you take this?

For historic purposes, would help to date and time stamp photos.

[hatrack]

8. No, it's a Facebook post nt

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[charlie and algernon]

9. no, it's going around on facebook.

[JimDandy]

17. Thanks. Hope there was something REALLY important he needed in that car.

Otherwise he's low man on the totem pole of grey matter.

[JDPriestly]

10. I feel so sorry for the people caught in this storm.

But there is some solace in the fact that Sandy is going to mean lots and lots of jobs for construction and auto plant workers, and they need the work.

It also means that regardless of who is the president, the federal government will have to pitch in to help people pay for the work THAT WILL HAVE TO BE DONE.

Nobody is going to cut the federal government aid to the people suffering in this tragedy. And the insurance companies??? What will they do?

No one could have anticipated a storm of this size in New York City. That man by the car is up to his thighs in water. That car will never run again. And buildings in New York have basements. Many of them are old. This is sheer devastation.

The question now is how far this damage will reach.

[Barack_America]

12. Wow. That water looks like it came on quickly.

[JBoy]

13. Making sure the doors are locked...

[cthulu2016]

37. that's funny

[dipsydoodle]

15. George Takei has posted a pic on FB

of a shark swimming around in New Jersey.

[vanlassie]

16. Does it look like Cory Booker??

[ellenfl]

22. no, chris christie. eom

[charlie and algernon]

18. yeah, here it is

[frogmarch]

19. Here it is. Photoshop?

I say yes, but I could be wrong.

I removed the photo. Someone beat me to it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. And yesterday a denizen of my ignored list

Was telling me NYC was exceptional.

[pscot]

21. 47th & Broadway looks pretty mormal

http://aws1.earthcam.com/

[markpkessinger]

25. Yep -- 51st between 8th & 9th here -- pretty normal! n/t

[Odin2005]

23. "Day After Tomorrow", anyone?

[MzShellG]

27. That was my first thought.....

When they described this hybrid hurricane/nor'easter. I wondered if anyone else thought of that movie as well.

[FirstLight]

33. I have been having flashbacks

of that movie all day!
I think we will see these throughout the winter...and maybe even some swirly snow storms in the sierras...

[RedCappedBandit]

26. Not sure how to feel about half these pictures going around. nt

[TorchTheWitch]

30. well, this one isn't this storm

Nor do I think it's Manhattan. A simple check of the actual news shows what's really happening. There is some flooding in the Battery Park area of Manhattan reaching "Irene levels" (whatever that means, but I know it wasn't anything like this photo).

I really wish people wouldn't get their news from whatever is circulating on FB rather than the actual news. It's not nice to scare the shit out of people with unverified photos contrary to what the news is reporting, and it would have been a simple thing to check the news to see if this photo was in any way representative of what's going on and where. And this one flat out is not.

[LiberalElite]

40. Photos of NYC looding earlier in day - various neighborhoods

http://rt.com/usa/news/new-york-flooding-sandy-503/

[RC]

29. If that is Manhattan, what about the subway system?

It would have to be totally flooded out.

[TorchTheWitch]

32. there are worries about the flooding of the subway system

Mostly because internet lines and probably telephone lines are located there. That picture isn't from this storm - that is not representative of what's going on in Manhattan at all.

Incidentally, just heard there's been one death from this storm reported already. A man was killed in his house when a tree fell on it. Also, in NYC the entire facade of a residential building fell off but miraculously there was no one injured. Geez, can you imagine just sitting there watching tv and suddenly that entire wall collapses and you're sitting in you easy chair looking out at the building across the street???

[LiberalElite]

41. Salt water's getting in there but it isn't anywhere near totally flooded (yet)

[Matariki]

31. Oh wow! That's bad.

Where did the photo come from?

[slackmaster]

36. It's going to be tough to get a pizza delivered in that

Seriously, I hope people stay the heck out of that water. It's extremely dangerous.

[Jennicut]

39. Not good. Some towns are under water tonight in CT too.

Branford, Lyme, Milford



That was Milford.

High tide is coming and it will get worse.

[LiberalElite]

42. According to the Weather Channel, this is 14th St. and Avenue A in East Village

part of one of the evacuation zones.