Yeah - it was a joke, and the Pt Washington Branch of the LIRR went down again

NYC has NOT been maintaining it's infrastructure. The MTA says "we can only pump that the sewers can handle". One HUGE issue is that we keep letting people build up areas - but we DON'T upgrade the infrastructure

Last summer there was a 2 week long blackout in Northwestern Queens. They blame it on various things, but one of hte big issues is - if you rip down 1 family houses, and replace them with apartments for 6 families, you NEED more infrastructure (Look at Flushing Queens thank you)

The problem is the city, the utilities and the developers ALL don't want to upgrade the utlities - heck that costs MONEY - but the developers keep talking the city into taking lots zoned for a 1 family house, and rezoning for multi family

I know some of the city's hurricane plans (got to sit in on OEM meetings a couple of years back) - They are relying on things like public transit to clear the low lying areas in South Brooklyn and South Queens. Yeah right, as today, and the storm of 2 weeks ago prove

The NIGHTMARE scenario is called "The Hudson Bight" scenario - picture a storm as big as the storm of 1938, moving as FAST as the storm of 38 (which went from south of Florida to Long Island in less than 24 hours) but instead of the storm hitting basically in Suffolk, the EAST wall of the eye comes right up the Hudson River. You get maximum storm surge, the way the west wall hits land, the storm starts to break up right over NYC - so you get the most wind AND the most rain, NJ and Westchester get totally flooded, so there is NO way to get rescue supplies to NYC from the west until the flooding goes down (remember folks, except for The Bronx, all of NYC is on islands)

Folks - you think NO was bad? The whole city there was 600K people. Picture 1 MILLION homeless in NYC alone, plus major problems in NJ, the counties right above NYC, and a LOT more in Nassau and Suffolk

The ONE good thing - the NYC water supply does NOT require electric to work (unless you live above the 6th floor) - so we will almost definately have water, and MOST of the city will self drain when the storm surge ends

A BAD thing is it is estimated that NYC has no more than 72 hours of food anywhere in the city, at any time - aka not only the stores, but the werehouses

A good point is that rescue supplies can be brought in by ship/barge - the bad news is that it might be the only way to bring stuff in, and the Atlantic right after a major storm is probably NOT someplace you want to be