Hurricane Sandy "Car"nage

[RacinBob]

I went to NYC about 2 weeks after Hurricane Sandy to help our office get customer's cooling equipment back on line after lower Manhattan flooded.

The most telling car damage I saw was one of the large office buildings down on Water street. This was a 30 plus story headquarters of one of the mega financial companies and it had it's 6 level parking garage underneath.

So what happens when the flood waters start going down a 6 story undergound ramp? Basically it picked up everthing in its way and pushes it into corners and lower level. I didn't see any supercars down there but I did see more than a couple of Jags, Astons and Vetts tossed into the corner like toys. There were a bunch of sport bikes I saw down there.

I didn't take any pictures of this because they didn't want me to. But I did get pictures of flooded cars on the street. These were taken two weeks after the storm.

All of these were abandoned.

One way to get into a car
Poor little RSX. As I recall it looked nice until you saw the mold on the dash....

[HFV_Junkyardin]

@racinbob to I’ll buy that Rsx for 500 bucks today. I got bleach.

[facw]

@racinbob Lived in the city when Sandy came through. Nor much destruction where I was, but I did have some friends and my brother come up from the Houston Street area where they had lost power. Mostly just a whole bunch of debris along the Hudson shore line where I was.

We did have this crane working on a residential skyscraper break:

They had 57th closed off for quite a while because they were concerned the boom would break off completely spear through the street and break the natural gas lines causing an explosion.

[RacinBob]

@facw Yes, the big story of Sandy was the tidal surge first. Second was New England's reliance on above ground power distribution resulting in tens of thousands of trees taking out neighborhood power lines and the resulting weeks of power outage.

[RacinBob]

@hfv Naw, that car is probably being driven today in Chicago with a bleached title. Hurricane Sandy, never heard of it!

[someassemblyrequired]

@racinbob I was living in eastern CT, and the power would go out for hours when a squirrel farted in the general direction of a phone pole. They redid all the lines right before Sandy - we only lost power briefly when a tree arced the lines and caught fire. And obviously since there was a fire, they were on that like Donkey Kong. We lost power for an hour.

[gmporschenut also a fan of hondas]

@racinbob what pissed everyone off even more was this was a year after the halloween nor easter, Trees still had a bunch of leaves so the snow snapped/toppled a shitload of trees. powere companies were like "we promise to do better"

[RacinBob]

@gmporschenut-also-a-fan-of-hondas Its a tough one, my impression is that out east the roads are narrow and the power lines are crowded to the curb and surrounded by trees.

They could fix it alright but the loss of the trees along most streets would never be accepted.

[Engineer In Motion]

@racinbob sandy gave my company a lot of work as most of the buildings had generators in the basements or sub basements. After the storm we had a backlog or redesigning tons of infrastructure to move it up to the 2nd floor. Remnants of sandy still exist in many of the buildings there.

[RacinBob]

@engineer-in-motion Ditto. where did they put the cooling plants, of course the 6th sub basement. The building in question had the wall between the parking garage and chiller plant blown out by the water pressure.