What tramatic or unfortunate event has NOT happened to New York City in the movies?
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I don’t recall NYC ever getting flooded like the Lost City of Atlantis in the movies.
Elephants on the rampage?
@bpeoples I was thinking the same about The Day After Tomorrow. They were also chased by the freezing in that movie. Unbelievable!
There has never been an invasion of killer frogs.
No soldier ants, as in the 1954 movie Elephant Walk.
No molasses flood. That was Boston.
No plague of locusts like the one in Mormon lore.
As a matter of fact, the ten Biblical plagues of Egypt are missing. That would make a movie, all right: a latter-day Moses tries to save us from slavery to corrupt institutions that scoff at his warnings…
Celibacy.
That town is always gettin’ it on.
@Jeruba – dang, you stole my plague thunder. I thought of that too :(
I don’t think it’s been attacked by a giant jellyfish . . . ?
Accountability for city employee parking placard holders.
LOL @Sarcasm, GA. Come hang with me in NYC sometime, you know, for chillin’!
Except for about two weeks after 9/11, NYC has never been plagued by niceness.
@Zen pretty sure that’s happened in a movie, however =)
@Zen: The “good” blackout in NYC on Nov. 9, 1965. I climbed down 15 flights of stairs to get my 5 yr old son who was in the lobby of our apt. building. Then we climbed back up. My then husband helped an old woman down 25 flights. Taxis, buses and cars took all for free…just stuff another person in. People biked and rollerskated. My legs had serious charlie-horses for the next few days, but it was fun for all.
“5.28 pm New York City
The entire Eastern Seaboard went blank, and power outage spread over an area of eighty thousand square miles, eventually effecting approximately twenty-five million people.
Caused by a single breaker being set too low on the Canadian side of Niagara, a rolling surge of power headed toward New York resulting in the critical closure of the Con Ed system.
La Guardia and JFK airports were closed and commuters were stranded in apartments, office blocks and traffic jams. Power was restored some thirteen hours later and there was an air of pride in how the city coped with its darkened streets, with little reported disorder.
Survivors of the 1965 blackout reported an almost magical event as moonlight flooded New York. A rise in the number of births nine months later only added to the feel-good factor.
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Survivors of the 1965 blackout
Survivors seems like a strange choice of words, unless there were a lot of people who died that day.
@Sarcasm: Just a few; some elderly, some strokes and heart attacks, but you are right. “Survivor” is a weighted word. However, I cannot think of a one-word synonym that means “those of us who were there and had stories to tell (everyone) about roughing it and the kindness of strangers.”
@gailcalled – We also “survived” the Great Blackout of 1965, except dinner never finished cooking and my homework had candle wax on it.
I have yet to see hordes of midgets in clown makeup terrorizing the citizens and scaring the hell out of pets and farm animals.
You are right, @Bluefreedom. That is more likely to happen in Southern California, or somewhere in or near Sarasota, Florida. But only in the winter months.
I think it never got hit by a black hole.
That’s because parts of New York are a black hole. People go in and they never come out.
Yeah, I heard Homeland Security made quantum tunneling near NYC’s event horizon illegal. Stephen Hawing appealed to the Secretary of Homeland Security but time freezes when letters come too close to this other type of black hole called bureaucracy.
@mattbrowne; Meanwhile, what is Stephen Hemming advocating?
@gailcalled – Stephen Hawking demands that some New Yorkers trapped in their black hole close to the event horizon should be allowed to leave. Erwin Schrödinger built them a special tunnel (right next to Brooklyn-Battery tunnel) and it’s even toll free. Travel time is virtually nil. Well, you know Homeland Security, they’re quite paranoid… You never know who’s coming out of the tunnel.
@What’s his name’s cat will be/ or won’t be. (See Stephen Hawing^^). G
@gailcalled – Yes, his semi-alive cat is very famous. But his work also led to understanding the phenomenon of quantum tunneling. Without this our sun wouldn’t shine the way it does. Stephen Hawing postulated that black holes evaporate over time. So we could in fact evacuate every trapped New Yorker over time…
@mattbrowne: Yet another reason why I will never venture into NYC again. I’d rather be picked off by a bald eagle or a bob cat, or our increasingly large brown bear population (due to bee hive owners) here in the counry.
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