Instagramming Hurricane Sandy's damage

Mobile Photo Group has a live curated feed of the #hurricanesandy Instagram tag, and photos of the storm's damage throughout the Eastern US. Related: Time's photogs covering the storm last night via Instagram. And below, one particularly striking image from @jesseandgreg on Instagram:

East Village swamped! #newyorkcity #nyc #ev #flood #avenuec

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Paul Renault

Aaaww, just wash the sea water and seaweed off the car. It should run fine after that…
- http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
  
  It will if it’s a Toyota
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
  - Paul Renault
    
    I think it’s the tenth time I’ve watched that video. It still makes me chuckle.
  - http://twitter.com/ErnestValdemar Ernest Valdemar
    
    I used to drive Toyotas. The one thing they can’t deal with is a Crackhead fleeing the scene of a crime, turning down a one-way street the wrong way, encountering a police cruiser, and then front-ending my late-model Matrix, forcing it up the guy wire on an urban power pole so that it subsequently careens down the guy wire at 45 degrees and slams down gravitationally to the pavement. I’ll never drive another Toyota until they fix this obvious problem.
    
    I really like my Honda Fit, though, BTW.
    - ChicagoD
      
      Shocking engineering oversight by the Toyota folks. They’re lucky they haven’t been sued.
    - Paul Renault
      
      Anything that destroys a Matrix is a good thing. I hate the cars.
      
      I have tinnitus because I had to drive one of those G-D cars a lot.
http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075

I can maybe understand local residents resisting the clues that they should get their car to higher ground, but how did a police car get left in that situation?
- xzzy
  
  Officer was probably assigned to direct people to safety. I’ve seen pictures of police and firemen ordering evacuations and piling sandbangs right up until rain started to fall. Then when shit hit the fan.. the car got left behind and I would hope the officer hoofed his way to safety.
  
  In these circumstances, a flooded police car is probably a good thing because it means someone was doing their job.
  - http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075
    
    There’s quite a span of time between “the rain started to fall” and “The shit hit the fan”
    
    That “good thing” is a substantial asset that now is useless for all the post-storm police activity that will need to be done.
    
    I still wonder what happened.
    - ChicagoD
      
      “Substantial asset” is in the eye of the beholder. If a cop or two helped people get out and NYC has 10,000 cop cars, leave the car and help the people. After all, this is a single car, not fleet HQ or something.
10xor01

Just think of just how much worse it would be if global warming weren’t a vast liberal conspiracy.
Atomicpanda

Just look at those old Polaroids. Wow. Thank goodness this all happened way back in the ’70s and not now!
rocketpjs

I’m thinking maybe I should look for a house a bit higher up the hill.
- mrtut
  
  There are alternatives – but they require massive government action
  http://www.en-motors.com/upload/5027988_oosterscheldekering%202.jpg
  http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/images/TP20070812-RWS-Afsluitdijk017-Edit_tcm174-138313.jpg
  http://cdn.pf.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Gesloten-waterkering-Nieuwe-Waterweg-582×388.jpg
  http://ian.umces.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Barrier1.jpg
  - ChicagoD
    
    I don’t understand these pictures. None of them show a house on a hill. If only the Brits hadn’t dismantled the wall at Wall Street . . .
    - mrtut
      
      Those are just the feet of hills. When finished, it should look like this
      
      http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/pictures/595xAny/1/3/0/1215130_berlin_mountain.jpg
      - ChicagoD
        
        Ah. Now I see . . .
kartwaffles

NYC has got to be one of the grossest flood locations. Hate to even think of what’s in that water.
- ChicagoD
  
  I dunno. The French Quarter was pretty damned grimy.
  - kartwaffles
    
    Having been to both places, one smells like booze and puke. The other smells like urine and rotten garbage. Take your pick eh.
- mrtut
  
  Sandbags? And hunks of gunk:
  http://cdn4.spiegel.de/images/image-419017-galleryV9-fdcv.jpg
artbyjcm

Vote Romney 2012 to ensure that people in situations like this receive no help at all. lol