When I was a young boy, my parents took me into the city, to see a marching band the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. As we passed through the Lincoln Tunnel en route from New Jersey into New York City, I asked “Are we underwater right now?”. There was likely a note of fear in my voice, which led my mother to tell a comforting lie. She assuring me that we were not, in fact, underwater. I imagine I believed her.

Had we been driving in the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and doing so this week, her lie would have been a lot less believable. Thanks to a drilling excursion in the East River, that tunnel recently sprung a leak. Whoops!

“There are many redundancies in the tunnel but, you know, when someone drills through all those layers, it’s going to cause a leak,” Sheridan said at a press conference.

Yes. Yes, I suppose so.