[Moose4]

I don’t think this will be nearly as bad as New Orleans post-Katrina (at least, I pray it won’t). The water will recede more quickly and in most areas the flooding, while bad, isn’t as catastrophic as when the levees broke in NO. It will cause a huge mess, potentially billions of dollars of damage, and some deaths, but I can’t see it depopulating entire neighborhoods the way Katrina did to Chocolate City.

}:-)4

[Strategerist]

The media hasn’t really been in a lot of the areas with catastrophic flooding.

A lot of the NJ/NY barrier islands are going to look like Mississippi after Katrina - multiple breaches in the islands reported.

And keep in mind that some 2-3 mile lengths of these barrier islands probably have more real estate value than the entire Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans did.

[Windflier]

I don’t think this will be nearly as bad as New Orleans post-Katrina (at least, I pray it won’t).

Imagine dropping your iPhone in a pool of muddy water. That's a poor analogy to what's occurring to New York city right now.

The entire place is an intricate technological marvel. Immerse it in salt water, especially with its thousands of miles of aging underground services, and you're talking the likely destruction of something that will take years and many billions of dollars to repair.

The people of New York are going to be hard pressed to maintain anything approaching a normal operating basis under those conditions, and the fact that New York is a central hub to the rest of the US economy, and....well, the repercussions are potentially mind blowing.

[RKBA Democrat]

“It will cause a huge mess, potentially billions of dollars of damage, and some deaths, but I can’t see it depopulating entire neighborhoods the way Katrina did to Chocolate City.”

I can. What is a city of several million going to do without electricity? Without transportation? With winter on the way? Most of their electrical infrastructure is underground and it’s flooded. You can’t just pump it out and throw the switch. It’s probably effectively destroyed, and it isn’t the type of equipment you pick up at radio shack.

I fear that the political powers that be aren’t up to fixing it. This is looking a lot like Katrina.