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NYC Subway flooding: 10 craziest photos from the MTA

Having just been hit with its most crippling blow in 108 years, the MTA is now outlining a 3-stage approach to getting the subway again: pumping out the flood-water, assessing the damage and repairing the tracks.

MTA isn’t making any promises about how long this will take—some are speculating as long as three weeks—as you can see the flooding is pretty severe.

Most of these photos from the MTA’s Flickr are from South Street station. The video above also contains footage from Whitehall, also in lower Manhattan. In case you can’t tell, the photo below is of the actual subway tunnel—the water is covering the tracks. MTA preemptively cut off power to the entire system, which is now looking very wise as the entire third rail is submerged in water here, which sounds extremely dangerous.

The below photo is from the Brooklyn Battery tunnel, also completely flooded as of today.

All photos via MTA Flickr.

  1. October 31, 2012 at 5:04 pm, Ester Rus said:

    Oh my Goodness.. :( :( So sad.

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  2. October 31, 2012 at 1:06 pm, whatever its wednesday « KrisPix said:

    [...] sad sad subway pictures. [...]

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  3. November 01, 2012 at 1:46 am, William Smith said:

    zoinks

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  4. November 01, 2012 at 2:11 am, Margaret Donovan said:

    don't look very promsing.

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  5. November 01, 2012 at 12:06 pm, Rheannon Joseph said:

    My prayers are with everyone there. Not the NYC I remem

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    • November 24, 2012 at 9:27 am, Rhonda Bryant Arnold said:

      Hey miss you!! Want to add you as a friend! Hope you are doing well

      Reply

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