Posted on 08/08/2007 6:18:39 AM PDT by NYer
Transit officials are urging New Yorkers to delay their morning commute after severe weather flooded numerous subway stations and roads throughout the area early this morning, leading to massive mass transit delays during the morning rush.
NYC Transit says the subway system cannot handle the morning rush, and that it will take some time to pump enough water out of the system to get service back up and running normally.
"No subway line right now that is running at full normal of its route, so if people are at home, they're about to leave their house, advice to you is don't, said Paul Fleuranges of NYC Transit. If you can delay your commute, if you can go in a little later, do so cause right now we probably can't handle you and we probably can't get you from point A to point B."
A heavy storm with tornado-like winds ripped the roofs off several houses in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, damaging several houses and downing a number of trees.
Flatbush residents also reported damaged houses and crushed cars along several blocks.
Power outages were also reported on Staten Island as a result of flooding.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the southeast area of New York City shortly before 6:30 a.m.
As of 7 a.m., the MTA was reporting no R Train subway service between the Canal Street Station and the DeKalb Avenue Station due to flooding at the Lawrence Street and the Canal Street Stations.
Due to flooding at the Times Square-42nd Street Station, shuttle service was unavailable between Grand Central-42nd Street Station and the Times Square-42nd Street Station.
Due to a smoke condition at the Borough Hall Station, there was no 2 or 3 train service in both directions between the Wall Street Station and the Borough Hall Station.
Buses in Manhattan were also being rerouted.
In addition, LIRR service on the Port Washington Branch was suspended in both directions due to a flooding condition at Bayside, with alternate bus service being provided.
Metro North is also reporting no service into or out of Grand Central Terminal on the Hudson, Harlem or New Haven lines because of flooding between the Mott Haven and Melrose sections of the Bronx.
Some of the comments on that blog are fun reading. Thanks for posting it.
Kings County is better known as Brooklyn....Canarsie, Crown Heights are in Brooklyn, the rest are in Nassau County, on Long Island.
Looking out at my vegetable garden, it’s a mess. My tomato plants fell over even though they were staked, way too much water in a relatively short period of time. The wheelbarrow was empty yesterday, it's now full to the rim.
5.August 8th, 2007 9:17 am Thats just great, my girlfriends first day on the job and they already get to find out what a unreliable bum she is. Posted by Luke
You had a long commute today, but on the positive side you joined FR today, so it balances out:) Welcome!
It was really nasty here in CT, too. The underpass under the metro north/amtrak line was flooded out. Water in my cellar, too.
Kings Is Brooklyn
NY is Manhattan
Richmond is Statan Island
Nassau and Suffolk are Long Island and not the city
thank you, Ive been reading here for several years now
“5.August 8th, 2007 9:17 am Thats just great, my girlfriends first day on the job and they already get to find out what a unreliable bum she is. Posted by Luke”
Tooo funny. I wonder if when Luke posted that he could ever understood it would be posted on FR for millions to read...what a laugh.
Due to severe flooding throughout the subway system, there are extensive delays on all subway lines. Customers are advised when at all possible to use bus service. The detours are as follows:
There is no v train service in both directions between the 2nd Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.
There is no w train service in both directions between the Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard Station and Whitehall Street Station.
There is no Franklin Avenue Shuttle s train service in both directions between the Prospect Park Station and the Franklin Avenue Station.
There is no g train service in both directions between the Long Island City-Court Square Station and the Smith-9th Street Station.
The r train is running on the n line in both directions between the Canal Street Station and the DeKalb Avenue Station.
There is no 1 train service in both directions between the 14th Street Station and the South Ferry Station.
There is no 2 train service in both directions between the Penn Station-34th Street Station and the Brooklyn College-Flatbush Avenue Station.
There is no 3 train service in both directions between the Harlem-148th Street Station and the New Lots Avenue Station.
The a and c trains are running local in both directions between the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station and the Broadway Junction Station.
There is no e train service in both directions between the 23rd Street-Ely Avenue Station and the Jamaica Center-Parsons-Archer Station.
There is no f train service in both directions between the Jamaica-179th Street Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.
There is no f train service in both directions between the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station and the Jay Street-Boro Hall Station.
There is no 4, 5 or 6 train service in both directions between the 125th Street Station and the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall.
There is no l train service in both directions between the Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway Station and the 8th Avenue Station.
There is no 42nd Street Shuttle s train service in both directions between the Times Square-42nd Street Station and the Grand Central-42nd Street Station.
Astoria-bound n trains are running on the d or m lines from the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station to the 36th Street Station.
j trains are running with residual delays.
In addition, due to debris on the track at the Church Avenue Station, the b and q trains are running on the d or n line in both directions between the DeKalb Avenue Station and the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station.
Please expect delays in service system wide at this time.
Due to street closures in Mid-town Manhattan, the following diversions will be used until further notice:
We have this type of weather numerous times a year in spring and early summer and it doesn’t cause everthing to come to a screeching halt. I guess there are advantages to living out in the sticks. ;-)
I experienced the NYC train line to Hoboken being shutdown due to power outages in Nov. 2005. That wasn’t fun either, being crammed together with everyone else for an hour or so. Made me REAL appreciative of my wide-open spaces. Hope all goes safe for you guys today. Hang in there.
I dont know which counties are what in New York City.
Kings, Queens, Richmond, Manhattan, Bronx.
It has not kept pace with the population growth on Long Island. Besides, where's your sense of nostalgia?
And folks stuck inside subway cars ... ugh! Love NYC but don't miss the commute.
I just finished reading “Storm Warming: The Story of a Killer Tornado” by Nancy Mathis. It had a lot about Ted Fujita and his theory of micro-bursts and down drafts, which were not readily accepted by meteorologists. It took a while to convince them. Terrific book!
I’ll have to check out the book. The Amazon.com reviews pump it up as a great read too. Thanks.
Thanks for that update jer33 3.
ok so i searched on google to find out more info on what happend this morning and found this thread, and i felt like i should comment, i live in Bay ridge, when i woke up this morning i looked outside and lef erikson park was totally destroyed, down trees, ect. and some one told me a torando was on the ground this morning, i have yet to head over to what i have been told was the more heavely hit areas over on 2nd ave, but the damage, is concestant with tornadic type weather, now i may not be a meteroligist, but i just moved out here at the begining of the summer, from Kansas, and i have seen/experienced my fare share of Tornados, i would even venture to say that i am an amature storm chaser. I chased the first ever EF5 tornado ever recorded, it was 1.5 miles wide,but back to the point there is signifigent damage, and very well could have been down burst, but it was severe weather none the least, so i dont blame MTA for the problems this morning. so enough of my ramblings, but the only scary part about this morning was, no warnings at all, i slept through it, and that is scary, the reason so little people die form tornados in KS is because there is warings, people know if the sirens go off get to shelter. well this is my 2 cents, and i appoligize for i have horrid spelling
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