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Anyone here from NYC? How was it really? Love NYC. Lived there for awhile. We were there a couple years ago. One day there was a huge rainstorm. We just went with it and had a blast. It actually was our favorite day there and some of our best memories.

global warming??

Born and raised in NYC called a few friends in Bay Ridge where the torando hit and thankfully they are fine! Gotta admitt that this kinda weather is rare there but I guess every once and awhile weirdness hits!!!!!!!

What has me laughing all day is the fact that the news channels today are all the bitching about the hot weather. It's August for lands sakes!!!!!! Every year it gets hot in August that's normal! What do they want? A snowstorm? NOW THAT WOULD BE NEWS!!!!!!!!!

Gail

The rain storm was an hour at most, but it did cripple the morning commute. My Long Island Rail Road train was about 15 minutes late, and when I arrived at Penn Station, all of the surrounding subway stations were in lockdown due to flooding. I was able to catch a train a few stops away, but many people didn't think of doing that and wound up walking to work (my job is at least two miles away from Penn Station and it would have been a hell of a walk in 90 degree weather. My boyfriend would have had to walk five). The busses were so crowded that they were bypassing stops, and forget about getting a taxi. I think only 6/15 of us showed up at work yesterday.

There was a worse storm a month or two ago that was worse for LI commuters. No big deal...

Back in 99, I was living on the upper west side...and a similar storm killed the subways for a half a day....my wife and I had to pretty much walk to work in an ungodly downpour.

Global warming my ass...this shit happens every so often...it's fucking normal. The suggestion that a severe thunderstorm is the result of global warming is like assuming that just because you have a hard on every morning, that you have an erectile problem...

strangegrey wrote:There was a worse storm a month or two ago that was worse for LI commuters. No big deal...

Back in 99, I was living on the upper west side...and a similar storm killed the subways for a half a day....my wife and I had to pretty much walk to work in an ungodly downpour.

UM, we had a tornado touch down here in Brooklyn with 130 mph winds. It was a pretty big deal. No subway service all day.

Much worse than the 1999 storm, here in Brooklyn, anyway.