Gennaro asks whether weekend storm required resiliency deployments
Gennaro asks if the nor'easter required mobile flood barriers or subway entrance covers. DeFalco says it did not; the storm was mostly coastal and tidal flooding, and pumping had to wait for tides to recede.
Here's from the prepared questions.
Did this past weekend storm require the deployment of any resiliency strategies put in place since Sandy?
For example, things like mobile flood barriers and subway station entrance covers.
If so, which strategies were deployed and how did they fare?
This weekend's storm didn't require that.
Subway stations, we mostly saw it was coastal and tidal flooding, not inland flooding as much.
So the difficult part with the coastal flooding is that it's...
Until the tide goes down, you can't start pumping.
Otherwise, it just fills right back up.
It's like pumping the ocean.
So we know the areas that were likely to get hit.
This storm really sat over the city for days, and especially with the full moon, that didn't help things in a nor'easter.
So really for us, it was just...
making sure that we were clearing areas that we could and pumping low-lying areas once the tide had gone down.
That was the chief responsibility.