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Pic: Fires sparking in NY subway tunnels (Original Post)
NYC Liberal
Oct 2012
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SidDithers
(44,228 posts)1. That can't be good...nt
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justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)2. That's what really worries me about these kinds of storms
underground fires.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)3. Excuse me but if this isn't armageddon what is?
I can feel all of this massive caving in of the city! Even thought I don't live there anymore NYC is like an organism and this is the worst kind of attack on it's intestines!
Well the Mayans did warn
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)10. I feel the same way about NYC.
Up to a few months of leaving the city to move to Boston I was preoccupied with the thought of how vulnerable the city was to any kind of major natural disaster.
tblue
(16,350 posts)11. The Mayans
Ya know?
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)4. Maybe the floods will put out the fires
Warpy
(111,261 posts)5. They needed to cut the power there, too
Somebody's got to be saying "oops" about that.
Not good. The recovery period in NYC and Philly is going to be a very long one, I'm afraid.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)6. That's not good news!
marmar
(77,081 posts)7. Mon dieu......
...... as someone who lived in NY for several years and loves the place, my heart is heavy.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)8. Yikes! This is very ungood.
Why didn't they cut the power to the train lines?
upi402
(16,854 posts)9. True, and why aren't the feeders tripping?
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)13. I just hope this is electric and not gas.
*boom*
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)12. Damn.
This is some bad stuff, that's for sure.
global1
(25,249 posts)14. No - Not Bad Stuff - Just An "Inconvenient Truth"......nt