NEW YORK (Reuters) - The giant storm Sandy wreaked havoc on the New York City subway system, flooding tunnels, garages and rail yards and threatening to paralyze the nation's largest mass-transit system for days.
"The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night," Joseph Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, said in a statement early on Tuesday.
He later said that water was "literally up to the ceiling" at one downtown station.

All seven subway tunnels running under the East River from Manhattan to Queens and Brooklyn took in water, and any resulting saltwater damage to the system's electrical components will have to be cleaned - in some cases off-site - before the system can be restored, MTA spokeswoman Deirdre Parker said on Tuesday.

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We have had many floods in Nyc but this flood has topped it off, i have never seen so much water in the subways in my life. I dont even know if the 3rd rail is working, if it is who ever steps foot in that water is done, they have to vacum out all of that water. Can you imagine how many rats and garbage will be all over? Its even worse outside, water covering cars all the way to the top and garbage cans rolling down the blocks...