Mythbusters: subway flooding special effects

Universal Studios, Florida, Earthquake ride

Hurricane Sandy, NYC

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  1. Lord of the Fleas
    Posted October 30, 2012 at 8:45 pm |

    Years ago, I came across a sheet photocopied from a British magazine circa 1982. It was the Tory Map of the World. (And freaking hilarious it is – I still have a copy.)

    The legend for the map read (in part): 1) British Territory; 2) Used to be British Territory; 3) Ought to be British Territory; 4) Ought to be Below Sea Level.

    Methinks Noo Yawk fits in Category 4…..

  2. Gwillie
    Posted October 30, 2012 at 11:00 pm |

    Plausible

  3. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted October 30, 2012 at 11:38 pm |

    Having spent a somewhat part of my life on subways I’m still gagging at the thought of these flooded subways right now…

  4. Thunderbottom
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 5:40 am |

    And here’s a phrase I’d never expect to be heard in Noo Yawk: “Surf’s up!”

  5. mech
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 6:46 am |

    That’s one way to clean them out.

  6. geezerette
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 6:48 am |

    I wondered about all the homeless who live down there.

  7. DougM (November is coming)
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 6:57 am |

    ^ I expect we’ll hear some pretty gruesome stories over the next week or so, but the real problems will come when they try to get the subways back into operation: sea water in electrical equipment and steel … *shudder*

    Then there’s the pumping.
    Flooded subways and tunnels and basements, oh my!

    Then there’s the sewage and toxic/contaminated/icky stuff.

    One good thing, though …
    they’ll have a leg up on planning for the inevitable tsunami.

  8. Claire: pink pig with car keys living in an alternate universe
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 7:17 am |

    uccch — the smell

    for years.

  9. danintampa
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 8:36 am |

    stagnant sea + hudson + assorted dead fauna = crowd control. Or shovel-ready projects!

  10. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 8:53 am |

    Whell Hell. I thought it was a pitcher of some guy who had drunk a Big Gulp and had to piss——really, really had to….. [see: Bloomburg----the comic...]

  11. rickn8or
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 3:20 pm |

    Never mind the subway, what about all those mutant albino sewer alligators??

  12. Ironic in Denver
    Posted October 31, 2012 at 3:24 pm |

    ^ what about all those mutant albino sewer alligators??

    Hunting Alien Spawn washed in by the tide. These are patriotic mutant albino sewer alligators, defending, our shores from alien hordes.

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