I'm sure you've all been very concerned, worrying about the impact Hurricane Sandy had on New York City's rat population. The good news: Rats can swim and, while many rats likely died during the storm, there are probably still plenty of them alive. The really interesting news: Nobody actually knows how many rats live in New York City. There could be as many as 32 million.

  • Navin_Johnson

    And what of the mole people?

  • GawainLavers

    I’d be pretty concerned about rat fatality numbers in about 3 days.

  • Bearpaw01

    [Insert joke about NYC being a rat race here.]

  • BarBarSeven

    Do we know how benevolent the submissive rats are? They are the ones that are supposedly going to survive.  The dominant rats are all deep underground & have drowned.

  • http://echofox3.blogspot.com efergus3

    But what about the poor C.H.U.D.?

    • dr15

      And what about the poor R.O.U.S.?

      • Pag

         I don’t think they exist.

  • Daemonworks

    Only 32 million?!