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- canewediggit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25umm, ok. i'm going to slowly back away because you scare the ***** out of me.
- Coven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11As a New Yorker, I've got two words for you. ***** You!
- slimasian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I work for an investment bank on Wall Street, and I can attest to this. My usual 1 hour 20 minute commute to work was expanded to about 4 hours and 30 minutes, and I made it into the office a shade before lunch time.
I sure picked a hell of a day NOT to work remotely :-P
On the positive side, I must have lost 5 lbs. walking 10000 city blocks yesterday...thank god everyone else had attractive sweat stains on their shirts too - kamel, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13It's raining in NY, stop the presses!
- fpcyber, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Turn those subways to submarines and resume your daily activities.
- michaelhood, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Typical ignorant Londoner, as if everyone lives near their place of employment. Should try visiting the States, idiot. It's people like this who have little to no understanding of the layouts of modern American cities that further these generalizations.
- haiduz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6It was actually an F2 hurricane in brooklyn and transit melted down (i was 1 hour and 40 mins late for work and one of the first to arrive).
- workphoto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Actually most New Yorker's are not what i would call fat, most generally walk a lot.
- sonaro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6'When Keeping it Real goes Wrong.'
- sedatedgodzilla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I spent 7 hours in transit yesterday, about 50% of which was not air conditioned. Thanks MTA!
- Sirocco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I'm glad New York can understand you, because you opened your mouth and verbiage spilled out. Thank you for representing your fine city.
- PhillyMJS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Um, I think the point the person was trying to make was that for the high fares riders pay (plus the tax money they pay that goes to fund public transit) the transit system ought to be able to deal with a friggin' rainstorm without falling to pieces like it did.
- slayerab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yes, rush hour went on until about 2 in the afternoon yesterday. I personally tried getting to work but gave up after 3 hours. I really wonder where billions of dollars go. We pay these people and they have no backup plans regarding a transit 'meltdown' in an age where terrorists have blown up trains in the London Metro, and have threatened to flood downtown New York by blowing up Lincoln tunnel. Instead, two inches of rain that fell quickly stopped the trains and thousands were stranded, what would happen if it were a real emergency?
- Jrr6415sun, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5way to classify over 20 million people into 1 category... dick
- Coven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4As Colbert said, now the terrorists know how to bring the city to its knees! Water! Its so simple!
- raoulduke87, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Ha, ***** pussy. I'd invite you to go into the heart of Brooklyn and say that loudly, you little piece of *****. It never ceases to amaze me how brave people are when they're behind a computer. Die in a fire.
- raoulduke87, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It took me 2 hours to get from 150th and Amsterdam down to 42nd and 8th. The bus crawled through Harlem as more and more people piled in. When it finally dropped me off on 42nd Street, I was over on 3rd Ave. and had to virtually walk across the island to get to work. What a pain in the ass. And all I could think while doing it was that they want to raise the subway fare for a system that can't withstand a strong rainstorm? I'm not going to pay $3 a ride for transit service that's patchy at best.
- ahhell, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I think he's one of those "No child left behind" kids.
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3As much as the alternate universe version of yourself that was there and drowned wishes he wasn't there I presume.
- bblades, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I got to the train, they weren't running, called my office, nobody picked up, so I said ***** it snow day. Stayed home. Got a call from a co-worker about 4 hours later saying they just got to work, and she was just traveling within Manhattan, while I was coming from Queens. It was a nice excuse to stay home
- jajive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i believe demicritter has bad intensions against NYC.....
- MagicalTrevor2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You're not laughing? I am...
- kuyakew, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3took me 3 hours to get to work from queens to manhattan.
DAMN YOU brooklyn tornado! - reichec, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6CNN is reporting that a second flood has just hit the Pentagon.
- redrock34, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Terrorists are not believed to be involved.
- siszam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It wasn't a hurricane of any kind. It was a small tornado and some rain. The rest of the country deals with things on a consistent basis that alter our lives and either put us on the runs (Katrina) or traps (ice storms) us in our homes. Welcome to the real world.
- MagicalTrevor2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Quite.
- fashiontrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What most people aren't getting is one of the major causes of this flooding: garbage. NYCers: ever notice how free throwaway newspapers and Pepsi bottles are piled up over every sewer drain?
Every time it rains, it gets into the subway system. They have a system of pumps to bilge the stuff out. What happened the other night was a result of the pumps not working fast enough. I wonder if it has anything to do with the hundreds of sofa bottles, candy wrappers, and newspapers in the path of those pumps.
2 ways to instantly improve the situation:
A) Find a way to stop the unfortunate dregs of NYC from littering on the subway tracks. There are trash cans everywhere.
B) MTA should have clean-up crews spend one hour every night at every station to clear any debris that comes from (A)
Not a solution, but an easy start. - kurtwinter, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3***** you, you ***** *****. If it weren't for NYC, and other large cities, you'd be slinging ***** all day on a farm you piece of *****.
- Masefield, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2 http://www.answers.com/topic/fend
To attempt to manage without assistance: "had to fend for ourselves until we were rescued." - fashiontrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"I'm just waiting to see what will happen when the ocean levels rise."
Sorry to be a bummer, but you probably won't live to see a significant change in ocean levels. - PhillyMJS, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, and to think they wasted all that money and time on pilot schools, like a bunch of suckers.
- darny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2after that lets nuke Mecca and Medina!! Yeah!!!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3And? I have to say, as a native new yorker, I'm STILL astonished when things like transit delays due to rain make the headlines. Don't you people have anything better to do?
- siszam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1New York is very vulnerable to hurricanes. You just haven't had one to hit the right way yet. When it does it will wipe the smug from your face.
- ScrewedThePooch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Your taxes at work! Thanks Giuliani!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5can't wait till the Jihadis say Allah did this because of G.W. Bush
- darny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you know where you can stick your BMW mini, right?
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -1/+2More than you'd expect.
- darny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1he's right...trash is clogging the drains.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Best part was the following story being about submarines.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1thanks for the spam, IN SPANISH.
douchebag. - slimasian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2So true, it seems like a real estate investment somewhere in, oh I don't know, Indiana, seems like a prudent choice. After all, it should be prime beach property in a decade or so :-P
- ScrewedThePooch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't usually say this, but i really hope Fred Phelps dies of Gonorrhea and his family burns in a fire, except for the kids who are victims of their own ***** parents.
- jpop, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Um, hasn't Giuliani been long gone for years? It's Bloomberg now.
- CedEx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1When does the war on climate begin?
- azazrael, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1oh yeah
- darny, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2you moron, how do you think we get to and from the trains every day? we walk!!! You probably drive everywhere you go, and in an SUV no doubt.
- JesusDeluxe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I found out about this after checking google trends around noon yesterday and 28 of the 100 top google searches were for NY MTA Transit
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yeah the word only exists because people are lazy. or else we'd be using real worlds like defending (which means essentially the same thing as fending), adventure (which is the same thing as a venture), persecute (which is the same thing as prosecute when done illegally and in a targeted manner).
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