Please don’t watch that terrible TNT show. Instead, read the rest of this story and be amazed at the actual history that you missed out by being born in this reality, and not the alternate one that I’m about to describe.
We still don’t know where the millions of people who inhabited NYC daily went. I mean, the ones from Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx probably meshed into the rest of the country with little oversight or fuss. Staten Island and Manhattan on the other hand, those people were locked out, but all of a sudden, there were a few thousand left. Just how empty the islands were remained a mystery until October 13th, no it wasn’t a Friday.
A pair of USAF F-15E Strike Eagles were making their bi-daily pass over mid-down Manhattan when out of nowhere a SAM was coming at them. This was odd because of 2 reasons. Firstly, all previous attacks came from lower Manhattan, and Harlem – close to the borders of the Island. And secondly, the last attack was over 6 weeks ago. Conventional wisdom was that the RNYers were out of rockets, and with the entire island embargoed, they had no way to replenish themselves.
One pilot managed to avoid the missile, but the other was hit dead on. He successfully ejected, but due to the low altitude passes they were doing above city, the plane and the other missile went directly into multiple buildings in midtown. I know what you might be thinking, destruction on a 9/11 scale. Well, you’re partially correct. The buildings, nondescript office/residential towers were utterly destroyed. The military, the media, and the world assumed that hundreds, perhaps thousands of people were dead or dying as the buildings burned and crumbled. What’s more, days went by before the fires were fully put out. From the outside, it seemed like no effort at all was made to save anybody. Any planes that flew by low were shot at (no more were shot down), the only information came from high flying U-2s. They showed damage, but also an empty city.
There was no evidence of people in the city at all. The buildings showed little to no heat signatures, the streets were bare and unmoving, nothing was happening, and no one could figure out where everybody went.
The pervailing theory was the subway system. People were holed out in the subways, and that old, forgotten tunnels were how the RNYers were getting their supplies. There was no easy way to prove this. The President ordered certain key buildings be destroyed, and elite teams of Navy SEALs were sent to infiltrate the subway system. The buildings were all knocked out via Ship to Surface missiles launched from the harbor. They stood no chance. Their destruction was captured on video and broadcast around the world. The United States was not to be messed with.
The SEALs entered the subways, and found them empty. They couldn’t do a proper mapping of the thousands of miles of subway tunnels, but they could, to the best of their knowledge, say that the city was empty. The President ordered the subways to be flooded. It was a radical idea, and no one was quite sure what would happen, but it was a quiet way to show the RNYers that the game is over, they lost.
Well, it turns out that 100 years of digging and tunneling beneath a city does some damage to the bedrock. The ground lost alot of weight, and instead of being spread out, it was distributed on points. Once the water was there those points spread everything out. Foundations cracked, and buildings lost their footings.
The Mighty Skyline was Falling.
As usual, jump the gun for the video and enjoy your downloaded memory:
