Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131030:01:03:00
Unless transit workers could figure out a way to make it stop. so they tried, days before the storm, watching the forecast, anticipating the rising waters, carpenters started collecting lumber and started hammering together a sort of ad hoc plywood dam across the open mouth of the tunnel that the harlem river was set to surge right down. they put together a dam that was five feet high. but something happened that made them realize that five feet high was not going to be enough. they needed to get that dam higher than that. the city workers trying to stop the harlem river from storming through ...