Grand Central on a normal day in New York is chaos. Add a thunderstorm, trees on the tracks and a full train stoppage. Welcome to sardine city. On a normal day, thousands of tourists visit the old station, hundreds of thousands travel to or from it. Today was a day to do none of the above.
Trees on the tracks = Grand Central chaos… 🚂 #nyc #Manhattan #grandcentral pic.twitter.com/YVISpo5sWB
— Aaron Richardson (@Richardson_AJ) May 15, 2018
For those who live west of the Hudson River, perhaps in a small town in the heart of America, it’s easy to look at these scenes and shake your head. Why would anyone want to be in the middle of that? Because, it gives us another reason to complain about the city we love.
If you wanted to see the chaos that an announcement like “All train service in and out of Grand Central is delayed indefinitely” causes #NYC #GrandCentral @MetroNorth pic.twitter.com/uUNVGHqEDy
— Andrew Kat💤 (@KatzAndrewS) May 15, 2018
It all began just as New Yorkers were racing for the exits, trying to beat a massive thunderstorm that raced across the city.
https://twitter.com/KesimHasan/status/996554370279002112
https://twitter.com/chduge/status/996537245841723392
The situation is similar to what happened in March when a nor’easter shut down the terminal forcing commuters to sleep in the station.