This Footage of New York’s Flooded Subways Is Absolutely Insane

If you thought the New York subway system’s derailments, delays, and dead corpses made it a complete and utter hellscape before, think again. Things have somehow managed to get even worse!

After a tortuously nice weekend of 80-degree weather and some actual, desperately needed sunshine, a massive rainstorm swept into NYC on Monday, obliterating any modicum of happiness that may have attempted to set in. The storm dumped a torrent of water on the city, immediately unleashing a biblical-level flood on the underground subways. It was, to put it mildly, extremely fucked.

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Behold!

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Spring has sprung!

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But lo, at least a few New Yorkers were strong enough to soldier on, stayed by neither rain nor gloom of morning or whatever.

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Cynthia Nixon, for the love of God, save us from this rain-soaked subway nightmare. You’ve got your work cut out for you.

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