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Sewage, Bacteria, Gasoline
Found in NYC Floodwater
ABC News, by Sydney Lupkin, Michael Koenigs*
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Posted By:JoniTx, 10/31/2012 8:34:20 PM
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| Water is everywhere in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – in basements, on the streets and in transit systems – but the one place that flood water is most dangerous is in your body. ABC News chief health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser collected floodwater and drinking water in some of the areas hit hardest by Sandy and had them tested at The Ambient Group lab. The floodwater collected in Lower Manhattan tested positive for gasoline and two types of bacteria found in sewage: E. coli and coliform. “Very dangerous,” Besser said.
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*and Richard Besser
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
smidgen, 10/31/2012 8:53:14 PM (No. 8978195)
I am really sorry for these folks in the NE, honestly, but those of us in FL, the East coast and the Gulf Coast deal with this almost every year. We may not have the massive population at the epi center but we have the lack of food and water and the bacteria in our water and general goo in our lives with no power-- when it is hotter than the hinges of Hades. I do pray for them everyday as I know what they are going through. But, they need to put on their big girl pants and do what needs to be done.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Delilah, 10/31/2012 8:54:57 PM (No. 8978202)
Is this supposed to be news? What did they expect from floodwater?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GOP_U_BET, 10/31/2012 8:56:03 PM (No. 8978208)
Imagine the displaced NYC rats and cockroaches. I truly pity those people.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
coldoc, 10/31/2012 9:09:53 PM (No. 8978243)
New York ain't no Singapore.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Steele81, 10/31/2012 9:17:12 PM (No. 8978259)
Our house on the Mississippi river flooded in 2011. We were on one of the highest spots so we only got about a foot, but the clean up was major. Lots of those people will not have flood insurance and those who do will get to deal with the government since they are the ones who are in charge of flood insurance. Prayers for them all.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
farmwife, 10/31/2012 9:23:48 PM (No. 8978281)
Remember when Michelle Obama was urging everyone to vote early because you never know what might come up at the last moment--maybe your toilet would overflow!
Little did she know!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
woodsman, 10/31/2012 9:25:30 PM (No. 8978288)
I feel for these folks and thank the lord I live in a rural area!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
fireman28, 10/31/2012 9:37:18 PM (No. 8978315)
On FB an coworker got messages from her sister in NY asking her stuff like where to go to buy food, water and cleaning supplies.
Other than food - have NY'er never heard of Home Depot & Lowe's? The pictures of convoys of HD and Lowe's truck heading toward NY are on TV.
You had one week to prepare and did not buy at least 3 days worth of food?
I want to be kind; but clueless does come to mind.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Donna M, 10/31/2012 9:37:49 PM (No. 8978318)
This is a 'dog bites man' headline...it's the lower Hudson and the East River, fer heaven's sakes! You're lucky you don't find garbage, tires, Norway rats and dead bodies. The two rivers are cleaner than they used to be but hardly the quality the Dutch found them in say, 1600. And then the floods pick up what's on the pavements.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
rambo77, 10/31/2012 9:40:21 PM (No. 8978327)
I can just imagine the mess that has to cleaned out of those subway and higway tunnels. They'll have to de-contaminate them for months to kill all the bacteria and God knows what else that has been living in those places. YUKE!!! Imagine cleaning out all the dead vermin that have drowned in there...even worse, cleaning out where they went when the water rose too high! Texas looks mighty sweet.....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jir, 10/31/2012 9:48:40 PM (No. 8978345)
Where I work is down there on Maiden Lane, right near Wall Street. I just heard it is in terrible shape, no way we will be back in office until next week, maybe.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stencil, 10/31/2012 10:03:54 PM (No. 8978370)
Nice alliteration - hotter than the hinges of Hades. Mine now . .
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Screwgun, 10/31/2012 10:08:03 PM (No. 8978382)
At least it will cover up the urine smell that permeates that city.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Subal, 10/31/2012 10:40:45 PM (No. 8978433)
I guess NY'ers expected Perrier to flow upward from the sewers and subways!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
smidgen, 10/31/2012 10:47:03 PM (No. 8978442)
#12--have at it and enjoy. I have a million of them "little Southern sayings".
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
thundersnow, 10/31/2012 10:52:18 PM (No. 8978453)
What about the homeless living in the subway system? Did anyone attempt to get them out?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 10/31/2012 11:42:17 PM (No. 8978517)
Standby for a very nasty weekend in the Big Apple and NJ with gas line riots and looting..and while the social structure of the east coast is breaking down Chris Christie's new BFF will be yucking it up and blaming Romney.
Change is coming!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
tmcavl1, 11/1/2012 12:08:14 AM (No. 8978549)
First of all, prayers for those who evacuated and have come back to find they've lost everything as well as those who never thought the flooding would be so bad and stayed.
Looking at the many pictures of flooded streets of Manhattan, Staten Island, etc., one thing jumped out: lots full of semi-submerged yellow taxi cabs.
Seeing random flooded cars on the streets is at least partly understandable; people forced to leave on buses, didn't believe the excitable weather forecasters, etc.
But to see a whole fleet of submerged cabs makes me wonder if the owner didn't see this as an opportunity to cycle out an old fleet and depend on government assistance to buy a new one. I know if those were my company's cabs, my first priority would be to have my cabbies drive them to higher ground until the threat had passed. Even if a flood never came, better safe than sorry.
As NYC recovers from one of the worst floods (if not the worst) in its history, cabs will be in more demand than ever. And this cab company will essentially be out of business.
Just wondering...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
danu, 11/1/2012 1:55:16 AM (No. 8978621)
...along w/ sharks and albino alligators...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
civilservant, 11/1/2012 10:44:36 AM (No. 8979412)
#1, yes, the Floridians are more used to dealing with this type of event.
Of course, if it were 48 degrees there like it was in Jersey this morning, you might be singing a different tune.
Good luck to all, perservere like the Americans we are!!
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