If I recall correctly, DC dealt witih their rain run-off problem by digging huge underground tunnels that are essentially reservoirs for the run off. The water collects there and slowly pumped through the waster water treatment plant because rain run off is full of all sorts of crap. That's what NYC needs; the underground reservoirs to drain the rain into.
I was in Houston for two storms of 48 inches. They were about a year apart. No one up north has ever seen anything like it. Each one was called a one in 500 year event.
Never snow in 10 years though. Unless you count sparkles in the air at 8am that melt when they hit the grass.
Really started coming down when I was heading into Brooklyn over the Manhattan Bridge. Heaviest rain I've seen anywhere in a long time. By the time I got to school it was still coming down.NYC hasn't done shit since Sandy and it shows.
We got word at 2 p.m. that the clinic was closing and we could all go home. By that time both 2 and 5 service (the two subways I can take from Up There to Down Here) was dunzo. Fortunately, my beloved fiancé drove to pick me up. I had to leave the office at 3:30 because security was shuttering the place for the weekend, but I was able to wait for adorable Meccalopolis in the pharmacy next door (we send them a lot of business). They have seats, and I had a book. We're safe at home now.
NYC swing from candidates who run as progressive, to Moderate. In almost all cases their political positions are insincere. Fiorello Laguardia is a possible exception.
I seem to recall Adams saying he would bring back The Big Apple's "swagger". You ever see people trudging through shin-deep water? It looks very much like they are swaggering. Golf clap for the Mayor.
NYC is going to sink into the sea and there is nothing we can do about it. Better plan how to move 20 million people now, before shit gets way out of hand.
Oversimplified consequences of climate change: The dry places will get dryer and the wet places will get wetter. Hong Kong got flooded the fuck out at the beginning of the month, and they're DESIGNED for monsoons.
I was recently subjected to a MAGAt diatribe that managed to squeeze in EVERY conspiracy on 4chan into one long sentence. Part of it was how global warming is a hoax cooked up by the Ju-hoos, rain is natural and the extra water will evaporate and go back into the system. It's cyclic, don't we Libtards get it? And this was not some fucking knuckle-dragging moron. It was an educated bureaucrat who is very good at his gub'mint job. The world will be a better place once humans extinct themselves.
It's been raining since last weekend and we know when hurricanes are aiming for us. Even if they don't hit directly we get wet. Adams just can't get his head out of his ass long enough to take even the most cursory preventative measures for problems.
Question: Is the NY Robocop even waterproof?
This guy beat Curtis Sliwa for mayor…Sliwa of the Guardian Angels…doesn’t any normal person want to run for New York’s mayoral position?
If I recall correctly, DC dealt witih their rain run-off problem by digging huge underground tunnels that are essentially reservoirs for the run off. The water collects there and slowly pumped through the waster water treatment plant because rain run off is full of all sorts of crap. That's what NYC needs; the underground reservoirs to drain the rain into.
Any way y'all could divert that rain to the Mississippi River? We need it.
If there wasn’t a photo op involved you can assume Adams wasn’t there.
He’s basically a slightly more lucid and less bigoted trump.
I was in Houston for two storms of 48 inches. They were about a year apart. No one up north has ever seen anything like it. Each one was called a one in 500 year event.
Never snow in 10 years though. Unless you count sparkles in the air at 8am that melt when they hit the grass.
24" in Western NY is considered a normal Monday.
Really started coming down when I was heading into Brooklyn over the Manhattan Bridge. Heaviest rain I've seen anywhere in a long time. By the time I got to school it was still coming down.NYC hasn't done shit since Sandy and it shows.
They did built that basket of stairs thingy next to the highline.
We added rental scooters, so you can't say we did nothing.
We got word at 2 p.m. that the clinic was closing and we could all go home. By that time both 2 and 5 service (the two subways I can take from Up There to Down Here) was dunzo. Fortunately, my beloved fiancé drove to pick me up. I had to leave the office at 3:30 because security was shuttering the place for the weekend, but I was able to wait for adorable Meccalopolis in the pharmacy next door (we send them a lot of business). They have seats, and I had a book. We're safe at home now.
I never understood why NYC keeps electing total wankers as their mayors.
See; The United States 2016.
NYC swing from candidates who run as progressive, to Moderate. In almost all cases their political positions are insincere. Fiorello Laguardia is a possible exception.
Does this make Eric Adams the Jane Byrne of New York? Or does that just apply to snowstorms?
Jane Byrne won the mayoral primary race against Michael Bilandic after Bilandic fumbled the response to a snow emergency.
Bloomberg flew off to his weekend getaway in Bermuda once before a major blizzard. Dick.
I assume that, like with covid, he suggested New Yorkers fight torrential flooding with “swagger.”
And prayer.
More like "stagger"...or, perhaps more usefully, the breast stroke.
I seem to recall Adams saying he would bring back The Big Apple's "swagger". You ever see people trudging through shin-deep water? It looks very much like they are swaggering. Golf clap for the Mayor.
"Expected Rainfall/Liquid Equivalent"?
What are our liquid equivalent option?
I've been in the NYC subway. I think I know ...
I do NOT think we want to go there...
NYC is going to sink into the sea and there is nothing we can do about it. Better plan how to move 20 million people now, before shit gets way out of hand.
Sandy knocked out lower Manhattan for weeks. It's coming.
I say ship all the climate refugees to Greg Abbott
Hah!
Oversimplified consequences of climate change: The dry places will get dryer and the wet places will get wetter. Hong Kong got flooded the fuck out at the beginning of the month, and they're DESIGNED for monsoons.
And drought respite can come in hours, mit flooding.
I was recently subjected to a MAGAt diatribe that managed to squeeze in EVERY conspiracy on 4chan into one long sentence. Part of it was how global warming is a hoax cooked up by the Ju-hoos, rain is natural and the extra water will evaporate and go back into the system. It's cyclic, don't we Libtards get it? And this was not some fucking knuckle-dragging moron. It was an educated bureaucrat who is very good at his gub'mint job. The world will be a better place once humans extinct themselves.
Neither a thinker nor a dumbass be.
Reminds me of a "Gilligan's Island" episode...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQ8yF04y9o
Weird, I though hayseeds understood almanacs and weather patterns.
Only if Faux "News" tells them. GIGO you know!
NYC students are learning the hard way that no one can predict the weather. Your poor mayor and the city can't be held accountable for acts of nature.
It's been raining since last weekend and we know when hurricanes are aiming for us. Even if they don't hit directly we get wet. Adams just can't get his head out of his ass long enough to take even the most cursory preventative measures for problems.