Who has Lincoln Tunnel leak on their 2020 bingo card?

[Loki]

[Mik]

Oh holy crap. I never did like tunnels, especially underwater ones. I would rather swim the English Channel than get in the Chunnel.

[George K]

I'll take tunnels over bridges.

My Mackinac encounter in 1987 took care of that.

[Catseye3]

Oh. My. God.

[Copper]

I'd guess that is a burst water pipe, not the Hudson River.

[George K]

@Copper said in Who has Lincoln Tunnel leak on their 2020 bingo card?:

I'd guess that is a burst water pipe, not the Hudson River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_flood

Rehabilitation work on the Kinzie Street Bridge crossing the Chicago River required new pilings. However, when the City of Chicago specified that the old pilings be extracted and replaced by the new ones, the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company reported back that the old pilings were too close to the bridge tender's house, preventing proper removal without risking damaging or destroying the house. The City of Chicago then gave permission to install the new pilings 3.5 feet (1.1 m) south of the old pilings. The crew members who began work at the site did not know that beneath the river was an abandoned Chicago Tunnel Company (CTC) tunnel that had been used in the early 20th century to transport coal and goods. One of the pilings on the east bank was driven into the bottom of the river alongside the north wall of the old tunnel. The pilings did not punch through the tunnel wall, but clay soil displaced by the piling eventually breached the wall, allowing sediment and water to seep into the tunnel. After some weeks, most of the clay between the water and the breach had liquefied, which rapidly increased the rate of flooding in the tunnel. The situation became problematic because the flood doors had been removed from the old tunnels after they fell into disuse.

Link to video

[Copper]

That's why you plan the full life cycle when you build a tunnel.

[jon-nyc]

From the NY Post article:

“Well, that’s concerning. I’m inside the Lincoln Tunnel, which is underwater. I’m pretty sure there’s a movie about this and everybody dies,” Anthony Consiglio, who posted the clip to Instagram, can be heard saying as the water seeps out of the side of the tunnel.

[Rainman]

That was fascinating, thanks for posting that!

Chicago has approximately 40 miles of tunnels under the city. Doesn't that make you want to go explore, and maybe be the one to find Jimmy Hoffa?
And rats. RATS as big as ponies. And alligators. And Geraldo.

[jon-nyc]

I remember the Chicago flood. I was there for that. Very eerie to see the whole of downtown lights out during the day.

My then-girlfriend had to walk down the stairs from her office on the 83rd floor of Sears Tower.

He calves were killing her the next day.