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With offices, schools, museums, airports, etc. all closed, there's honestly not much demand for travel. Add in a high risk of trees falling on roads and rails and it does make some sense. WMATA also says the electricity companies weren't willing to guarantee power service, and evacuating trains mid-tunnel is not a wise use of resources.
NYC's MTA has posted a lot of photos of how they're preparing their (much lower lying, and much more vulnerable to storm surge) system, which might help to explain why they needed to shut down further in advance.
Over reaction. It's not going to be that bad -- lots of rain and a little wind.
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Originally Posted by clb10
Not an overreaction. Consider all of those Metro drivers, station agents and maintenance workers who are in harm's way...then consider their families.
It is better safe than sorry.
Yeah not an over reaction. This area is notorious for losing power. The main concern with metro was a train losing power in one of the tunnels because the DC area loses power more than any metropolitan area I've ever heard of.
The storm was not as bad as everyone thought it would be. Which is good. There are people who are all like too much media hype, but I'll take hype over lost lives or stranded passengers.
I mean wasn't it nice to have a day off?
Metro is up and running again. Back to normal we go.
It's important to differentiate between a home losing power, which is typically cause by a squirrel or tree limb being where it shouldn't, and METRO losing power, which is very rare.
That's true, but then again things that shouldn't lose power do lose power during these kinds of events. NYU Hospital's back-up power failed last night. The pumps in New Orleans failed (not to compare Sandy to Katrina). Didn't Metro have a power outage during a hot summer day this year?
I think it was for the best. Nobody had school, few people had work. Imagine the flak Metro would have gotten if a train got stuck in a tunnel for hours because of a power outage.
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