NYC Flooding

It's going to take a lot longer than anyone thinks to pump out the tunnels in NYC.  Both the subway and the tunnels under the river. 

Great article from Wired's 'danger room' portion of their blog.   I get a lot of my news from them. 





http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/sandy-unwatering-tunnels/

Here’s How Army Engineers Are ‘Unwatering’ NYC’s Tunnels

• By Spencer AckermanEmail Author
• November 1, 2012

 

 

 

 

The scale is staggering: Superstorm Sandy flooded New York City’s network of underground and vehicular tunnels with up to 400 million gallons of water. On Thursday, the U.S. military began to bring some of its heavy equipment into place – from generators to powerful water pumps to trucks flown from across the country. But, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emphasized to Danger Room, they’re just getting started with the cleanup.