Brooklyn tunnel floods --- CBS NY

[Skidmore]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/29/floods-outages-spring-up-as-hurricane-sandy-eyes-nyc/

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Reporting from Lower Manhattan, CBS 2′s Elise Finch reported that water from West Street was “cascading” like a “waterfall” into the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.

Finch reported that people had gathered in the area near Greenwich and Morris streets, reporting that some police officers even remarked they had “never seen anything like this before.”

Meanwhile, the first confirmed fatality from Sandy has been reported in the Tri-State Area.

Police told WCBS 880 that a 30-year-old man was killed in Queens when a tree branch fell on his home....more

[marmar]

1. Dios mio.

[Agschmid]

2. Wow.

That is a crazy image right out of so many disaster films, yet this is real life.

The effects of this storm will be around for quite a while.

[flamingdem]

3. On msnbc saying it's a dangerous situation for emergency workers

Last time water this high was 1921

They're showing waves coming up into the Battery area

Localized street flooding So. of Wall St.

[Politicalboi]

4. I hope storms like this

Change peoples minds about climate change. It's the only good thing that can come from this.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I know!

Any discussion of climate change was conspicously absent from the debates. This Superstorm is impacting half the country! I'm in NE NY and we have rain and high winds, but we still have power... *knock on wood*

[WillyT]

6. wow...

:crys: