While the flooding was worse than might have been predicted or expected, what comes to mind is: What happened to the lessons learned from Superstorm Sandy 9 years ago? NJT made a point post-Sandy of ensuring it had space on high and dry land to park its equipment to keep it from being flooded. It seems that the decision makers who sent this train through over the Raritan Valley Line rather than parking it and ceasing service made a terrible error here for a number of reasons.
And it wasn't the only apparent NJ TRANSIT dispatching mistake. Read on....
New Yorkers trapped inside flooded trains for 10 hours in dark during Storm Ida
Commuters in New York were trapped on a train for 10 hours without toilets or electricity after the tracks were flooded by Hurricane Ida.
Metro Magazine's headline for this story is incorrect, in that this incident happened in Newark, NJ, between downtown and the Newark Airport Rail Station. While there were some New Yorkers amongst them, no doubt at that time of the evening it was taking people who live in New Jersey home from the city.