For Some New York Bikers, Flooding Was Just a Minor Hassle

Hurricane Sandy transformed New York's coastal neighborhoods into watery wastelands, but a couple of super-bikers took this change of affairs as a personal challenge.

First, here's Casey Neistat's crazy trip through lower Manhattan as the tidal surge was rushing through the streets. Neistat, a filmmaker who you might remember from that bike-stealing experiment, must've been wearing a full-body condom to avoid catching something nasty in that garbage-water. But it was worth it (I say because he didn't die this time), because the street-level footage he obtained is eye-opening and terrifying. Skip to 1:00 for the action: