Weatherdammerung 2023: this has nothing to do with climate change. it's called weather

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Silver Nitrate posted:

Emily Sutton is cool

sounds pretty elite to me

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 20:18

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Jose posted:

i know technically this isn't weather but just lol at 2020

https://twitter.com/MaddieCapron/status/1266477673095680001?s=20

hail satan

# ¿ May 30, 2020 00:09

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ocean's risin', cloud

# ¿ Jul 27, 2020 19:04

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Polo-Rican posted:

Tl;DR: effortpost about the last big Hurricane Sandy subway tunnel repair

Yeah they just finished repairing one of the last tunnels. poo poo was crazy. The tunnel was essentially crumbling, but they couldn't just shut it down because hundreds of thousands of people used it to get to and from Manhattan every day. Shutting it down would send tens of thousands of riders to other subway lines, which would put them ridiculously over capacity - imagine waiting an hour to get into the subway every morning.

But the MTA said that shutting it down completely would mean they could finish repairs in one year, while doing nightly or weekend shutdowns would take three years, so ultimately the city decided on a full shutdown.

This caused real estate values along the line to drop, and less than one month after construction was meant to start Cuomo jumped in, halted it, and demanded an alternate plan. The shutdown had literally been discussed for 3 years and Cuomo didn't say a word until less than a month before it started.

I can't even express how much press this shutdown got for years. Everyone was talking about it. Personally, I joined Transportation Alternatives and helped start a group that helped people without a lot of bike experience figure out how to bike from Brooklyn to Manhattan. We ran group rides to help train people and get them comfortable, because we expected literally thousands of people to have no other option soon. A bunch of techie startups formed and created uber pool-like services just to deal with this specific tunnel shutdown. People moved to new neighborhoods. Some people left the city completely!

Ultimately they decided to do a nights and weekends partial shutdown, but also decided to speed it up by making it shittier. The wires and cables that send signals through the tunnel used to be housed in a protective concrete sheath, and this sheath was all crumbled due to salt water from Sandy. The original plan was to tear it all out and rebuild it. The new plan was to leave the crumbling wall there and cover it with strong netting so chunks don't fall out and derail trains. And instead of running cables through the protective concrete wall, they just stapled them to the tunnel wall.

So, repairs are "officially done," but none of the damage from Sandy has really been fixed, and if the tunnel floods again we are turbofucked.

it was the only thing that caused rents to drop in Williamsburg in years

lotta people got in on some good deals from their landlords, at least, though tons of businesses along 14th st closed because the construction entrance for debris removal in Manhattan basically made it impossible for them to be open

but yeah, real estate industry got to Cuomo, because the repair the bench wall was always going to take twice as long as they thought. then coronavirus came and everyone forgot about the construction and the hell it created in union square, and the businesses closing

coronavirus is the best thing to ever happen to Cuomo, bar none

my wife and I talk about sandy and the aftermath a lot; it�ll happen again, and it�ll be worse, because the repairs from then are full of duct tape and sand bags. and it�ll keep happening.

fun fact for everyone, the sewage treatment plant at newtown creek, which handles lower Manhattan and parts of north Brooklyn and west queens. about 1/4� of rain out of nowhere will cause it to start dumping raw sewage into the east river. it happens a ton, hundreds of millions of gallons

the plant itself was 6� away from being inundated and completed emptying into the river during sandy, woulda been an ecological disaster

lol I live 1/2 a mile from it

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# ¿ Aug 23, 2020 19:55

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Are those AMERICAN CITIZENS near the petrochemical plants, or just "people"

# ¿ Aug 25, 2020 20:05

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Shifty Pony posted:

a Magic Wand is forming off of the coast of Africa

hopefully it runs out of cord before it reaches the US.

is that a significant occurrence or what

# ¿ Aug 31, 2020 21:09

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ratbert90 posted:

I'm leaving for Boise tomorrow to stay with my parents for a week just to avoid this. Jesus Christ.

lol at all the west coast people moving to Boise, that place and the entrire Treasure Valley is toast in the next 20 years

nice place to visit though, eat Boise Fry

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 19:36

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Lokar posted:

forest fires and lack of water

they don't get to keep all that boise river water, the columbia needs that

also filled with raging racist that burn down anything the immigrant population builds

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 20:01

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the actual, downtown, bougie part of boise is loving tinderbox, there's giant south facing foothills covered in dry grass and shrubrush right up to nice little (expensive for the area) homes that nestle to downtown, full of giant lush trees

one out of control fire that springs up in the night, it's all loving toast

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 20:03

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Stereotype posted:

I remember learning about controlled burns in like grade school 20 years ago and am not surprised that it is still a massive issue that no one cares about.

gifford pinchot knew this in 1904, native americans have known it for millenia

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 20:10

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Telsa Cola posted:

The 100+ year thing isn't really an exaggeration. It does not decompose quickly, at all, and I have had tree falls marked on 20-30 year old maps and the trunk is still there, and will likely remain there for at least another decade.

They do not naturally degrade anywhere near as fast as you would think.

takes about as long to decompose as it was alive, has been the figure i've heard, and matches up with what I've run into

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 20:35

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nikosoft posted:

lol I went to Madison once to visit my coworkers (I was the only remote team member), and they wanted to take me out to Mexican food for lunch since I said it was my favorite. We went to a fuckin Qdoba, lol, they were so proud and happy to share it with me

fuckin lol

# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 00:54

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We've entered... the Butte Zone

# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 19:19

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Zarin posted:

I will bravely live in Buffalo and suffer the snow so that nobody else has to.

Speaking of, how IS Buffalo as a place to live, anyway?

people have been trying to make it a "move here with our low cost of living, nyc citizens!" destination for ten years

there are no jobs or poorly paying jobs

a very weird place, but some good food and incredible people watching at one of the old timey italian restaurants

# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 21:47

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hobbesmaster posted:

stands outside in the storm chanting S E C, S E C, S E C

# ¿ Sep 15, 2020 15:39

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well she�s a loving idiot

# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 19:34

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Gods_Butthole posted:

I live real near a naval base, I hope to god it gets directly targeted.

I mean, if there were ever anything to be certain about, it�s that

# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 19:58

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plenty of places on the divide around there are below tree line

grand lake is a serious place to evacuate. same for estes park

# ¿ Oct 23, 2020 18:24

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DragQueenofAngmar posted:

no ring

# ¿ Feb 16, 2021 17:06

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reign of fire is streaming on amazon prime

# ¿ Jun 10, 2021 20:01

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Egg Moron posted:

Aren't there like 4 new avatars coming out between now and 2025?

that's been the case for like ten years

# ¿ Jun 17, 2021 19:25

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Kazinsal posted:

https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1406022372109418497
https://twitter.com/systemrename/status/1406933253844398085

God is dead and so are we.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzLhXesNkCI

# ¿ Jun 21, 2021 23:28

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I�m watching the usatf Olympic trials and the temp in Eugene is 104F, right now, god only knows what it feels like on the field

# ¿ Jun 27, 2021 22:53

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how accurate were temp recording in the 1930s

# ¿ Jun 27, 2021 23:03

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the usatf Olympic trials have been suspended because of heat

# ¿ Jun 27, 2021 23:27

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doesn�t look that bad

# ¿ Jun 28, 2021 03:03

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climate proof ~~duluth~~ ~~seattle~~ yellow knife

# ¿ Jun 28, 2021 12:48

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hot as balls in nyc

gonna attach a peltier cooler to my taint

# ¿ Jun 28, 2021 19:14

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# ¿ Jul 5, 2021 20:10

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NYC has been hell this summer, there�s supposed to be a month of this, tops, in august

# ¿ Jul 13, 2021 18:28

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the bitcoin of weed posted:

it's loving hot

another heat advisory and air quality alert in nyc

# ¿ Jul 15, 2021 16:14

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oh it�s gonna be okay, mayor has opened public pools until 8pm

# ¿ Jul 15, 2021 16:48

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nyc has just been hell lately

# ¿ Jul 21, 2021 17:17

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turn out water is gonna catch every train

# ¿ Jul 26, 2021 17:49

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hahah
ha

ha

https://twitter.com/burgwx/status/1428813830587445248

# ¿ Aug 20, 2021 22:18

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hurricanes won�t bother the buildings

now, about the subway,

# ¿ Aug 20, 2021 23:38

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yes

# ¿ Aug 21, 2021 22:09

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New York sucks but I dunno where else to live so

# ¿ Aug 22, 2021 01:52

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Real hurthling! posted:

nyet stream

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Biden will fix it

# ¿ Aug 27, 2021 17:36

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