NEW YORK | City braces for possible evacuations/effects of Irene

[YSL]

Wow what an impressive "hurricane".

[feufoma]

Much ado about not much! In Houston we call this rain and wind

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by feufoma

Much ado about not much! In Houston we call this rain and wind

Great for Houston...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/nyregion/wind-and-rain-from-hurricane-irene-lash-new-york.html
Damage Affects New York’s Suburbs More Than the City


Jessica Libert and her niece Madilynn Rice, 2, survey the flood damage on Croft Place in Staten Island.

By THOMAS KAPLAN
August 28, 2011

while the city escaped without too much damage, its suburbs appeared not to have fared nearly as well. Wide sections of Long Island, Westchester County, New Jersey and Connecticut faced blackouts, in addition to blocked roadways and the prospect of further flooding, and scores of people were stranded in the Catskills after ferocious floods blocked access to several small mountain communities.

At least five people in the area died in connection to the storm. In New Jersey, a 20-year-old woman was found dead on Sunday morning in her submerged car on a flooded rural road in Salem County, eight hours after she called the police to say she was trapped in her vehicle with water up to her neck.

In Kearny, N.J., a 47-year-old man drowned after he abandoned his vehicle, which got stuck in a flooded roadway, and stepped into a drainage creek that was hidden by high flood waters.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/nyregion/new-york-expects-lengthy-recovery-of-transit-system.html
New York Transit Is Still Largely Paralyzed

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
August 28, 2011

New York City’s public transportation system largely remained paralyzed on Sunday afternoon even after Hurricane Irene moved away from the city, and the authorities expected a lengthy recovery that would most likely leave many commuters stranded on Monday morning.

Transit workers were still waiting for winds to die down before they could inspect the entire system. But an initial survey revealed flooded subway tracks, powerless commuter rail networks and fallen trees and branches that had rendered some rail routes impassable.

“You’re going to have a tough commute in the morning,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said at a news conference on Sunday at City Hall.

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/relief_some_trains_will_be_running_kBbGzIjz56avw2Yx1sJSDM

Relief! Monday commute hell, but some trains likely running by noon

By JENNIFER FERMINO
August 28, 2011

City subways will slowly begin coming back on-line tomorrow, the Post has learned, with several trains expected to be up and running by noon.

The IRT trains — 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 — will likely go live first, probably by noon, said a transit source.

The D is also expected to start around that time, possibly with a truncated route to avoid flooded areas around Coney Island.

The remainder of the city subways could be running by as early as 3 p.m., with exceptions being stations or lines that were heavily damaged, most likely around flood zones in south Brooklyn, said the source, who came up with the time estimates based on the extensive amount of work required to get the system up.

[CarlosV]

this was one of the only damages to LIC...

1 by Ceva321, on Flickr
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and CENTER BOULEVARD....gone with the wind!!!!


2 by Ceva321, on Flickr

[NYguy]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/take_cover_irene_on_her_way_93AVrXRLA6f5cR5v6pdRGP


A man pedals through a flooded street in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York



A New York City taxi is stranded in deep water on Manhattanís West Side after Tropical Storm Irene passed through the city.



Downed power lines stretch across Metro North Train tracks in Valhalla, N.Y.



Andre Kozlov, 38, walks through his flooded basement in Hoboken, NJ.


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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/galleries/hurricane_irene/hurricane_irene.html



A shorefront park in Great South Bay in Patchogue Village gets completely engulfed with waves.



A wave crashes against a home on the Great South Bay.



Water rises, and overtakes, Battery Park.



Water crests over the sea wall along the Manhattan side of the East River between the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge during high tide ...



The flooded courtyard of the Smith Houses on Catherine Slip.



A refrigerator becomes a victim of flooding on Greeley Ave on Staten Island.



Downed trees in Bayside are a familiar sight.



In the first hours of the morning of Hurricane Irene hitting Brooklyn, members of ladder 166 Engine 318 were forced to evacuate the fire house after it flooded out during the high tide.



The parking lot at the Coney Island home depot is under water.



Streets in Breezy Point, Queens are completely under water.



Mist shrouds the top of Freedom Tower, still under construction and sitting in the middle of a flood zone, about 12 hours before the center of Hurricane Irene was expected to land in New York City.



New Yorkers in Bay Shore have a very important message for the storm as it approaches.



Two men at corner of Water and Wall street goof around with a raft right before Hurricane Irene hits.



Regan Iberal, 10, made a 'Mean Irene' shirt after the weather cancelled her camping trip. Way to incorporate the NYDN front page!




Kevin Cho center walks with his sister Ellen and her boyfriend Julien Vignal on Staten Island street flooded by Hurricane Irene.

[NYguy]

Scenes from Long Island...moonman82

[Thundertubs]

Originally Posted by feufoma

Much ado about not much! In Houston we call this rain and wind

Originally Posted by YSL

Wow what an impressive "hurricane".

Maybe you were expecting a disaster-movie-style tidal wave down Broadway, but the record flooding across the Northeast is pretty major. The already-soaked soil in New Jersey could only absorb about two inches of rain, so the rest was runoff.

The estimated damage for the storm is $7 billion, putting it in the top-10 costliest US storms of all time. This is a rain/flood event, not a wind event, so if you're just looking at the low Cat-level you're missing the point.

Sorry you're not impressed, but the NE is hurting right now.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Thundertubs

Maybe you were expecting a disaster-movie-style tidal wave down Broadway, but the record flooding across the Northeast is pretty major. The already-soaked soil in New Jersey could only absorb about two inches of rain, so the rest was runoff.

Sorry you're not impressed, but the NE is hurting right now.

Exactly right. New Jersey will likely be flooded for the rest of the week. New York will face chaos tomorrow as many people try to get to work as many roads remain closed and the transit system won't be back online. New Jersey gov Christie is at least telling people to stay home tomorrow.

[Thundertubs]

It looks like Vermont might end up getting the worst of all this. The photos my friends from up there are posting online look horrible.

[Centropolis]

very surreal.

[RCDC]

Originally Posted by YSL

Wow what an impressive "hurricane".

Yeah, total yawner. Why couldn't tons of people have died? Maybe there's something more entertaining on another channel?

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by Thundertubs

Maybe you were expecting a disaster-movie-style tidal wave down Broadway, but the record flooding across the Northeast is pretty major. The already-soaked soil in New Jersey could only absorb about two inches of rain, so the rest was runoff.

The estimated damage for the storm is $7 billion, putting it in the top-10 costliest US storms of all time. This is a rain/flood event, not a wind event, so if you're just looking at the low Cat-level you're missing the point.

Sorry you're not impressed, but the NE is hurting right now.

The bigger storms tend to run out of gas sooner. It's these smaller storms that end up hanging on and being rain producers causing flooding. In a lot of cases along the gulf coast, it's the smaller storms such as tropical storms that end up being more trouble. I saw houses in Florida after Ivan that had minimal wind damage. Some had worse damage, some were even destroyed. But what got them all was water damage. You could drive through a neighborhood, and just from the type of materials that were being thrown out on the curb, you could tell what kind of damage they had. Building materials suggested wind, while things like electronics and furniture was because of flooding. I saw one house that had a car that was parked in the garage. The car had become buoyant and had floated around inside the garage destroying the walls and smashing the garage door.

[urbanactivist]

I'm glad that the majority of NYC was spared widespread damage. Bloomberg was very smart to shut down transit as early as he did, as that was really the most vulnerable system in the city. Imagine what could have happened if people were still riding on those trains and bus routes in Zone A.

For NYC, this also proved a good test of readiness for what could happen the next time a major hurricane does actually hit the city. New Yorkers now know to evacuate, they know transit will be shut down, and have a better understanding of preparedness for this event. I just hope that people continue to take these storms seriously, and don't think that the city is "invincible" just because Irene wasn't a worst-case scenario in the city.

[Attrill]

Originally Posted by Thundertubs

It looks like Vermont might end up getting the worst of all this. The photos my friends from up there are posting online look horrible.

Yeah, I have a few friends in Vermont and they've been hit really hard. In Southern NE I have some friends in the Blackstone Valley and they have a lot of washed out roads and bridges as well.

I've been in the White Mountains in New Hampshire during major rainfalls, and it isn't pretty. All of the small brooks become raging rivers that sweep away all the trees along their banks, completely wash out roads and bridges, and undermine any structures close to them.

[NYguy]

Still flooding in Jersey, but all in all things were not as bad as they could have been. That's always good news. As far as the city's and nation's response, let's just say its always better to be prepared for disaster and not have one than to have a disaster and not be prepared. I think everyone has Katrina on the mind when dealing with these issues from now on. I give the preparation and response an A+...


The city came close enough to potential disaster as it is.

pingstanton

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Still flooding in Jersey, but all in all things were not as bad as they could have been. That's always good news. As far as the city's and nation's response, let's just say its always better to be prepared for disaster and not have one than to have a disaster and not be prepared. I think everyone has Katrina on the mind when dealing with these issues from now on. I give the preparation and response an A+...


The city came close enough to potential disaster as it is.

Yeah I don't really understand the mentality of "Oh they blew it out of proportion." And they roll their eyes at how weak the storm was and how wrong the officials were.

I'd much rather they be wrong in their assessment and be overly cautious than to be wrong in their assessment and not take it seriously and then have a huge problem to deal with.

[animatedmartian]

Looks like the most serious damage to the subway happened outside NYC proper in the northern reaches of town.

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[Xing]

Oh Irene, how you've crushed more hearts than just mine.

[NYguy]

It's been an eventful week...


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/nyregi...usands-around-new-york.html?ref=nyregion
Power Out to Hundreds of Thousands Around New York


Flooding in Little Falls, N.J., on Thursday, from the swollen Passaic River above Paterson. “We're hoping by the weekend it will recede, but it's getting better every day,” a state spokeswoman said.

By CARA BUCKLEY and SARAH MASLIN NIR
September 1, 2011

House by house and block by block, power was steadily restored on Thursday to parts of the New York City area that had lost electricity because of Tropical Storm Irene.

Still, by Thursday evening, about 378,000 customers in downstate New York, New Jersey and Connecticut did not have power, 210,000 of them in Connecticut, where repair efforts continued to be bedeviled by trees that had fallen onto lines and blocked roads.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/nyregi...-months-to-repair.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
Port Jervis Train Line Will Take Months to Repair



Flooding from Tropical Storm Irene damaged tracks near Sloatsburg, N.Y., on the Port Jervis line, part of 14 miles on the route that needs to be rebuilt.

By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
September 1, 2011

The Port Jervis line suffered so much damage — 14 miles of it — that when Jay H. Walder, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, visited some of the tracks south of the Sloatsburg station on Wednesday, he rested his hands on his hips, let his jaw drop and said quietly, “This is something.”

Then he added, “In nearly 30 years, I’ve never seen anything like that.”

Tracks were mangled and washed away. Trees were toppled. Parts of the signal system were carried downstream. In other places, railroad bridges were battered. Mr. Walder said rebuilding the Port Jervis line would be “measured in months.”

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/worl...-cleanup-in-us-northeast/article2150300/


Flood waters from the Passaic River fill the streets in Paterson, New Jersey, covering cars, including a Chevrolet SUV, days after Hurricane Irene.
Mark Dye/Reuters


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http://photos.nj.com/star-ledger/2011/09/hurricane_irene_photos_day-by-_102.html


Thursday (9/1/11): Flooded streets in the area of Oak Street in Lincoln Park.



Flooded streets in the area of Oak Street in Lincoln Park.



A deserted gas station is flooded by the Passaic River in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene along Route 23 in Wayne.



A resident of Zellif Avenue checks the level of floodwaters from the Passaic River