A Sink Hole Grows in Brooklyn

So today didn’t start so good. First I woke up about 50 minutes late. Fortunately I was only going to the gym, so it just reduced my gym time and it didn’t make me late. Second as I was eating breakfast I saw a peculiar thing on the television screen: a green Ford SUV was leaning into a large hole in the street. The first thing that stuck was: ‘How drunk was that driver?’ The second thing was: ‘That sucks.’ The third thing was: ‘That block looks really familiar…oh snap, that’s right near me.” The fourth thing was: ‘That’s right above 4^th Avenue and the R Line. I wonder if that’s going to effect the subway.’ The fifth thing as the NY1 reporter informed me of the R train cancellations was: ‘Motherf$%@!!&!”

On Monday morning at 3:30AM, a woman driving home in her green Ford SUV, had the unlucky circumstance to drive over an area of 73^rd Street and 4^th Avenue after a water main had broken and begun to saturate the street above and below it. The weight of the SUV collapsed the whole and sunk the it in. The woman was able to get out in time, but her car wasn’t so lucky. Nor were the 500,000 people who were inconvienced by the trains not running, nor the power, gas and water disruptions caused to get the SUV out.

As we stand now, it’s Monday night and I have been assured that service will be restored by Tuesday night at the latest. While I feel that to be a bit conservative of an estimate, I do feel it’s more realistic than my previous estimate of April 1^st, 2011.