{"id":3418,"date":"2008-05-07T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T11:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2008-05-07T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T11:06:19","slug":"reassuring_thought_of_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/reassuring_thought_of_the_day.html","title":{"rendered":"Reassuring Thought Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/Citys_hurricane_plan_Floodprone_subway\/12424.html\">It may be impossible to hop on an E train to safety<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city&#8217;s plan to get people out of the path of a hurricane might make anyone uncomfortable who remembers Aug. 8, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when three inches of rain came down in one hour and flooding shut down the subway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would use our mass-transit system to evacuate the majority of people,&#8221; said Amy Schultz of the Office of Emergency Management at a City Council hearing yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>An OEM brochure offers the same advice: &#8220;If the city issues an evacuation order . . . use public transportation if possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That might not be possible. After last August&#8217;s meltdown, MTA chief Eliot Sander said the subway can handle only about an inch and a half of rain in an hour.<\/p>\n<p>A major storm would &#8220;severely&#8221; affect the subway, Schultz acknowledged, but the evacuation would begin early, perhaps days before the storm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve worked out the timing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We have to ensure there&#8217;s enough time so the subway can be shut down.&#8221; Trains would not run during a hurricane.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>August 8, 2007 . . . oh yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mkFmpdIjHLQ\">that sucked<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be impossible to hop on an E train to safety: The city&#8217;s plan to get people out of the path of a hurricane might make anyone uncomfortable who remembers Aug. 8, 2007. That&#8217;s when three inches of rain came down in one hour and flooding shut down the subway. &#8220;We would use our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}