NYC implements a new “tunnel plug” in response to Hurricane Sandy

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The new inflatable tunnel plug is supposed to floods, smoke, and gas from leaking into the cities subway tunnels.

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After Hurricane Sandy decimated the subway system last year, officials pledged to install new devices to help halt the rising tides—including flood gates and, more intriguingly, a device called a “tunnel plug.”

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