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MTA Shutdown

It'll probably be a slow restoration to normal on Wednesday, depending on how much damage they take from the storm.
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The Ferry is supposed to run as long as possible...
but it leaves from an Evacuation Zone and drops commuters off in another Evacuation Zone where, supposedly, there'll be no busses or subways!

I think PATH trains are scheduled to run till 10 pm but you'll still have to get there.

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the closure will have to continue through Tuesday AM, which is when the bulk of the storm hit... stupid major can't be bothered to look out a window. let's pray it's fully up for Wednesday morning's commute.

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NJ Transit and PATH are scheduled for ~midnight shutdowns. Airports will likely go down by the morning.

Last I heard the airports were closed.. or at least closing.
Stock Exchange will be closed on Monday.
Chase Cash Machines are displaying messages to consult your app for another ATM if this one goes down.
ConEd and Time Warner are sending out warnings about service interruptions...

I'm not ready to sit this one out without internet or tv

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if anyone know about the post office on monday please post.

i need to send a few things postmarked before month's end.

You didn't think to mail these things on Friday? LOL

I have to drive into downtown Brooklyn tonight to move our Drobo to a safer place as I suspect the roof of the office building where I work will leak water on something fierce. It has rained in the server room before. Unfortunately there's a full backup to this Drobo going on right now and it doesn't end for another two hours.

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NY Post says USPS windows should be open till 3pm Monday.

they will then take a "wait and see" attitude after that.

I did see mail men out and delivering around 9AM this morning in Brooklyn.
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I saw them this morning too in Fresh Meadows around 9am. Neither rain, nor hail, nor dark of night...

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ConEd shut down the power in some areas around Wall St at 7pm tonight. Their twitter feed, @ConEd, says they could shut it down as far north at 36th st.

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well, i take back my critism of the subway shutdown, even though i still insist it was 8-12 hours premature. the web is now full of photos where dozens of different stations have tracks flooded up to and sometimes above the passenger platforms. i hope the city priorities the pumping in order to get some lines running soon, so for example get at least one brooklyn-manhatten-queens and one brooklyn-manhatten-bronx line running so people can take that and simply go crosstown by bus or on foot.

NYC's subway system is massive. Over 800 miles of track, 468 stations, and 5,600 cars. Coney Island's train yard complex alone is the home for something like 1,800 cars. Even with plans in place for a scenario like this, it still takes a lot of time and manpower to move all those trains around to their havens to protect them against being flooded and damaged or ruined. Station and other infrastructure also had to be prepared. So it would have been a serious mistake to keep service running longer.

Recovery is probably going to take quite a while. All those stashed trains are sitting on mainline track. NYCT undoubtedly left at least 1 track open along each route so they can move personnel and repair equipment around. However, until they can roll the stored trains further out into the system, there is no way even limited passenger service could be resumed.

How did Forest Hills fare the storm?
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thanks for asking... we mostly got the wind, so the few weak trees that Irene missed last year, Sandy finally knocked down. we have power, internet, well stocked store shelves etc. obviously the big concern now will be the lack of mass transit for the balance of the week. the brooklyn and holland(nj) tunnels got flooded, so mostly commuter non-commercial traffic in/out of manhatten will be stressed. my guess is most who can will take today off, but do whatever is needed to get to work on wednesday.

i imagine DC got most of the Rain - i hope you were in a well drained area.