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Old 08-26-2011 | 06:18 AM
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johnso29
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Originally Posted by Check Essential
Trying to think -- isn't the whole customs and immigration area below ground level at JFK? If all that fills up with water, yikes!
Underground fueling systems? Baggage areas? Electrical conduits? Other utilities?

It wouldn't take a ten foot wall of water to shut us down. A couple inches might do it.
Originally Posted by tsquare
Yeah, maybe, but storm surge is nothing to scoff at. Couple that with high tide, and it is a big deal. This storm has real potential to be baaaaaaad. Sunny here on the Space Coast though.

Hey!!! where's my margarita?
That's true guys. The natural rotation of the hurricane plus the projected track have the water being pushed right at Manhattan, Long Island, LGA, EWR, JFK etc. It could get ugly.