A broken water main in New York turns the Upper West Side into a lake

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/13/a-broken-water-main-in-new-yor.html

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[Papasan]

[lumbercartel]

Is there by any chance a hard freeze coming soon?

[Snork]

That’s not a flood. THIS is a flood. What happened in NY is God decided to wash the streets.

[NashRambler]

For whatever reason, I just imagined a New York cabbie / Venice Gondolier mash-up; cigarette dangling from the corner of a sneer, straw boater with a NY Yankees blue ribbon, furiously poling his way up the Upper West Side and belting out Sinatra tunes and ignoring any signals for a ride.

[Steve_L]

According to the historical data and forecasts on weather.gov, this past weekend it was in the upper 60’s F in New York City and the lows for NYC don’t drop below freezing until Thursday night.

I expect / hope they’ll have the water removed before the Upper West Side turns into a skating rink.

[12Many]

Yep, it was fun getting to work today!

[lumbercartel]

Ah, well. Warmer than here in New Mexico, then.

The idea of ice skating in the streets (as in Ottowa) is off for another year.

[mocon]

@Steve_L

this past weekend it was in the upper 60’s F in New York City

Those temperatures didn’t keep it from snowing in D.C. yesterday.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/politics/white-house-snow-twitter/index.html

[RickMycroft]

“Hey, I’m wading here! I’m wading here!”

[vrplumber]

Wow, that main break must have been huge, that is an incredible amount of water to be coming from one pipe.

[Exonauts]

Sure, but with more than 8.6 million people in the city that never sleeps, my guess is it ends up being a pretty big mess to untangle.

[Shuck]

I saw a picture of this on Twitter and assumed it was (yet another) flood caused by global-warming-supercharged rain. I guess it being from a broken water main is… better?

[RickMycroft]

“What do you do with that vibranium in Wakanda, build weapons?”
“Water and sewer pipes mainly. That infrastructure is never going to rot!”*

 * but they will have some damned interesting water hammer problems!

[zzzz]

It’s a little early relative to the book, but okay.

[FGD135]

[_osivot]

Do you figure they stock that thing?

[FGD135]

Interesting. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to look where my copy of Catcher in the rye is.

[spetrovits]

A preview of things to come. The island of Manhattan is sinking, and with ocean level rise, the whole thing might turn into Venice eventually.

[Mindysan33]

Well, I guess that will be good, since by then Venice will already be underwater… /s