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New York's LaGuardia Airport Flooded

by Jeremy Kressmann (RSS feed) on Oct 30th 2012 at 2:00PM

New Yorkers and residents along the Eastern Seaboard are just beginning to emerge today from the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy - millions remain without power, thousands of flights have been cancelled and transportation throughout the region has been severely disrupted.

If you need further evidence of what it looks like in New York here on the ground, just check out this shot posted this morning by a flight attendant at LaGuardia airport. The airport, which lies in a low-lying coastal area remains severely flooded this morning.

For those of you in transit this week, stay patient. It could be a few days before normal flight, train and bus service in and out of the New York area resumes normal activity.

UPDATE: A special thanks to tireless LaGuardia airport worker Francesco Giannola for your photo.

[Photo credit: Francesco Giannola]

Filed under: Photos, North America, United States, Airlines, Airports, News

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kinsey6man Oct 30th 2012 4:11PM

Um...didn't someone say that Global Warming is a total hoax? So this happened out of pure happenstance. Okay, if you say so...

Edmo74 Oct 30th 2012 4:11PM

Lol, so true. "Global warming is real, and it is here. It is causing -- yes, causing -- death, destruction, and vast economic loss" (George Lakoff).

DennisTheMenance Oct 30th 2012 4:11PM

Well, if our States Legislators and Fed Gov't don't want to Force Companies to Spend the $ to Improve and Upgrade Equiptment?
and the past 4 Presidents have Not been able to do that

Then We have systems that were designed for 50% less Population than we have now..

Diverting Too much $ to Be helping the Poor is one the Problems
Once you become Known to provide more for the Poor , than were they come from? They will come to you, like Bee's to Honey
and you will be stuck taking care of them..

Wendy Davis Oct 30th 2012 4:30PM

Helping the poor is lifting them out of poverty, not ensuring they will always be in a needy position. Helping the poor, however, starts in the schools and the neighborhoods where they grow up. Having been poor myself, I can tell you that even the poor want to work.

Oppression of the poor, however, has benefits to those in the upper class. Because the poor do not vote. They live complicated lives and every day is spent keeping the roof over their head and utilities on. Despair which is unrelenting will lead to alcohol or drug abuse because our bodies and minds can only take stress of this type for so long. Their solution is cheap and easy to find in the ghetto, drugs are cheap and the alcohol they drink is priced just right for them to have access to. How many people do you know who drink wine that costs under 2.00 or beer that is cheaper than milk?

Oppression of the poor is by design. Poverty is a weapon to silence an entire class of people who would otherwise vote on the democratic ticket - the people's party.

The poor are victims not scavengers. The scavengers are in $10,000 suits, manipulating the system and transferring wealth into their possession via deregulation and lobbying.

Follow the money. The poor people in the world are not the problem.

DennisTheMenance Oct 30th 2012 4:11PM

And I'm sure New Jersey and New York will Multiply the Problems and Dramatize them, to justify to get alot more Fed. Taxpayers $ to bail them out and Stick everyone else , accross the country to Fix the problems they should be responsible for..

And figure The Utility Co.'s will be crying the Blues and wanting To Raise Prices to Upgrade equitptment.. of course..
And your Not going to get the Unions to agree to work Overtime for Free either.. How about Double Time?

Every City Dept. is going to Do the Best they can..

To Get as Much as they can for their Depts and their Budgets..

Chick Chachere Oct 30th 2012 4:10PM

My Heart goes out to ALL ..... from New Orleans. We understand. But I received a Cell call from my daughter in Bellport, L. I. No power, but they are well. We stayed there following Katrina. NOW we will help THEM - AND ALL.

beelp Oct 30th 2012 5:19PM

Global warming, global warming. Where were all of you super-educated, highly intelligent people during science class in high school? NO WHERE. The earth has been cycling warm, cool, cold, warm, cool for millions of years. The oceans rose, the oceans retreated many times before. Now all you pinheads want instant solutions to earths cycles because you find it inconvenient. TOO BAD! Part of the cycle of life of the planet, NOT some man-made debacle. Get over it and learn to DEAL with it, not try to change it, because you can't.

robert Oct 30th 2012 10:37PM

You are so uninformed about anthropogenic climate change I'm embarrassed for you. You obviously are no scientist and have a very limited knowledge of the subject. Of course everyone would agree the earth has gone through cycles, but the change that is occuring now is rapid and unprecedented. It is due to the belief that our atmosphere is an open sewer to dump in. And the results are starting to show.