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New York Underwater!

waitingPassengers are still stranded, sweaty, and discontented along nearly every subway line, as the city recovers from this morning's as-of-yet unconfirmed tornado. People are still waiting in droves for buses and taxis or walking across the city's bridges and Mayor Bloomberg has canceled his entire morning to no doubt assess damage to homes and trees in Brooklyn.

Send Bwog the story of your wacky commute! We want to hear it!

UPDATE 12:59 EST - Wacky commute stories after the jump.

UPDATE 10:58 PM EST - Act of God correspondent Zach van Schouwen has photographic evidence of the Brooklyn Tornado here.

Samit Sarkar, E'08, reports he never made it to his 9 to 5 summer job at SIPA, even after taking hellish, wet detours through the backwoods of Queens.

"My dad figured he'd take Union Tpke to Queens Boulevard and drop me off at the Queens Plaza subway. Unfortunately, we soon found out that there was no E train service and no 1, 2, or 3 train service (at the time). Union Tpke was slow going; by 9:45 AM, we hadn't even gone a hundred blocks, so I just called in to work and said that at the rate we were going, it'd probably be 1 PM or something by the time I got there (and the traffic was getting to my dad). They understood, so we stopped for breakfast at a Dunkin Donuts on 169th and Union Tpke (near St. John's University) and then headed home."

One Bwogger said she arrived at Times Square from Columbia an hour late and $41 dollars poorer.

A former Columbia student-wingtip perversely finds the day's silver lining...

"I got stuck on an overloaded PATH between hoboken and pavonia newport for bout [sic] 30 minutes (apparently two tunnels simultaneously got blocked). I used the time to chat up a nice goldman girl who had her chest rather inconveniently squished against me and get her phone number."

...while one Bwogger finds more of New York's opportunists...

"I was on either the 2/3 going downtown and we were stuck in a tunnel for a good 20 minutes. The car is mostly silent and all of a sudden, a girl near me shrieks really loudly, "Can you stop touching my ass?" The whole car goes nuts, overheard responses include: "I ain't feeling up on that girl," "We're all squished together," "Bitch," and my personal favorite from the gay man in the tunic, "She's really flattering herself if she really thinks someone wants to touch... that."
I wonder how many other perverts copped a free feel during this whole subway debacle."

And continuing the theme of commutes and pervs, Josh Hirschland, C' 08, finds himself in Pittsburgh.

"Yesterday I got off my last day of work at about 10:30, packed until three in the morning, and at four left for LaGuardia. Got there in plenty of time for the flight which was then delayed for 90 minutes due to the storm--just long enough to make me miss my connecting flight. As I write this, I'm sitting in an airport a half hour's bus ride outside of Pittsburgh in hour 8 of my layover. There is an upside, though; I got to get out of the airport and into the city. (When I got breakfast, I was promptly warned that I had better not
take it to go because the city is filled with pedophiles.... Seems perfectly nice to me.)"


Posted by houses: #1 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 11:19 AM
in queens are being flooded, the subways is just really fucking jam packed.
Posted by houses: #2 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 11:19 AM
in queens are being flooded, the subways are just really fucking jam packed.
Posted by actually: #3 (in reply to #2) · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 11:29 AM
the subways this morning flooded. check out the times city room for information on all the closures.
Posted by That picture: #4 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 11:49 AM
You should find that picture of the waterfall in the subway. They always have one somewhere, and it's an awesome picture.
Posted by ZvS: #5 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 12:10 PM
Every line broke in *some* way except Central Park West and Flushing.

Check it out: [external link to www.columbia.edu]
Posted by Elna: #6 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 1:04 PM
Commute in from NJ via 42nd Port Authority was fine. Walk from 8th Ave to 42nd and Lex, not so much, as the people who normally arrive at around 9 flooded street. Rain slows all down, especially tourists. It doesn't help that it is Wednesday blue-haired lady day at the Broadway matinees, and charter buses clog streets.
Posted by looks like: #7 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 1:17 PM
I left this city just in time. See y'all in September, suckaz!!
Posted by Nick: #8 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 1:51 PM
Wow, that is harsh! You are angry.
Posted by wow..: #9 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 1:56 PM
nice to see your level of maturity, "fag"
Posted by the upside: #10 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 2:42 PM
of a 3hour commute? 3 more hours of sleep. except for motherfucking conductors screaming...
Posted by up yours: #11 (in reply to #9) · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 4:02 PM
who are you calling a fag you fag
Posted by peace out: #12 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 4:12 PM
nyc. i'm outta here.
Posted by hey: #13 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 5:58 PM
how did i not notice this? i was in the city until noon today, and i was awake by 9. when was this storm??
Posted by Samit: #14 (in reply to #13) · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 7:11 PM
Yeah, I got out of bed at 7:30 (I live in western Nassau County) and it had stopped raining by then. I went to sleep around 2:30, and it hadn’t started raining yet, so I presume it all happened in that five-hour interim.
Posted by Samit: #15 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 7:16 PM
By the way, Bwog, the Brooklyn destruction has now been confirmed as being caused by a tornado:

[external link to www.msnbc.msn.com]
Posted by there was: #16 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 10:47 PM
a downpour of 3" in 1 hour. One would think that after 100 years of operation, SOMEone at the MTA would figure out what to do when it fucking rains.
Posted by lou dobbs: #17 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 10:48 PM
aging infrastructure! aging infrastructure! aging infrastructure! aging infrastructure! aging infrastructure!
Posted by lou dobbs: #18 · reply · track
August 8, 2007 at 11:50 PM
china! economic patriotism! the middle class! giant sucking sound! NAFTA! CAFTA! WTO!
Posted by while: #19 (in reply to #16) · reply · track
August 9, 2007 at 1:57 AM
you're right, you should see what happens over in Philadelphia. SEPTA breaks down so much more often.
Posted by diana: #20 · reply · track
August 9, 2007 at 5:36 AM
ugh it was terrible. i was trying to get to the beastie boys gig from queens. by the time i got there, i was drenched in sweat.
Posted by Where, o where: #21 · reply · track
August 9, 2007 at 10:42 AM
are SEAS' civil engineers in a time like this?!
Posted by They're: #22 (in reply to #21) · reply · track
August 9, 2007 at 11:03 AM
all on Wall Street, as are about 80% of SEAS kids.
Posted by Sprinkles: #23 · reply · track
August 9, 2007 at 1:36 PM
Woo, something interesting finally happened in my neighborhood! (Old Sunset Park, represent)

Also, #23's comment is funny because it's true.
Posted by hahaha: #24 (in reply to #22) · reply · track
August 9, 2007 at 5:46 PM
this is too true
Posted by sfist: #25 · reply · track
August 10, 2007 at 2:25 AM
glad i live in the sf bay
Posted by howdi: #26 · reply · track
August 21, 2007 at 12:52 PM
u fags should lick balls and stay out of NY. Brooklyn hates you u cock cum licking homos. I hope u all get skull fucked and raped
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