Kennedy Kaos

From the NY Times:

Kennedy Airport remained in disarray on Sunday, three days after New York City’s first major snowstorm of 2018 disrupted operations. Since the storm, a lingering, bone-chilling cold and a series of missteps have contributed to a logjam that has left thousands of travelers stranded and caused hundreds of flights to be canceled or diverted.

The disorder at J.F.K., one of the world’s busiest airports, rippled across the world, affecting passengers as far away as Beijing. Flights headed to New York were forced to turn back, and connecting flights that were only supposed to bring passengers to New York for a brief stay were grounded indefinitely.

On Sunday, just as there were signs that things were finally improving, a water main break in a terminal plunged the airport back into chaos. The flooding — three inches in parts of Terminal 4 — compounded the confusion that had gripped parts of Kennedy all weekend, as airlines tried to rebound from the cancellation of thousands of flights because of the storm. Officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Kennedy Airport, were still trying to sort out what had gone wrong on Saturday when they had to scramble on Sunday to cope with the burst pipe.

Infrastructure upgrades obviously needed

From CBS:

Crews are on the scene of a massive water main break Thursday in Queens.

The main burst at 60th Avenue and 99th Street in Corona overnight, sending water and mud gushing into the street and cracking the asphalt.

Crews are now trying to get to the water main.

The cause of the break is still unclear.

What infrastructure problem?

From CBS 2:

Officials said the street was undermined by the water main break, and crews would have to be called in to dig up the street and repair the main.

Late Wednesday night, crews were still working and six customers were without water.

Water main break floods Queens Hospital Center

MASSIVE watermain break on Queens Blvd in Elmhurst

From Eyewitness News:

Construction crews had been operating at 51-35 Reeder Street in Queens when shoring pilings they were installing struck a water main. The work site quickly flooded but all workers were accounted for.

The main is not capped. City Department of Environmental Protection workers were working to stem the water flow. The first stories of five addresses were evacuated due to flooding: 86-55 Broadway; 86-30 Broadway; 86-31 Broadway; 86-32 Broadway; and 86-34 Broadway.

From DNA Info:

The developer — listed as 85-15 Queens Blvd. Realty, LLC — was issued a partial stop work order in August because there was no underpinning at the site, according to Department of Buildings records.

85-15 Queens Blvd. Realty, LLC could not be reached for comment.

Nice way to wake up

MYFOXNY.COM - An early morning water main break is flooding homes in Springfield Gardens, Queens.

It happened just before 5 a.m.

Fox 5 News reported that some basements had six feet of water in them.

Images from SkyFoxHD showed flooded streets in the area.

The FDNY says a 12-inch water main broke.

One house was evacuated due to a cesspool/sewage line that broke.