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Short Film Documenting NYC Flooding

Monday, 2 October 2023, 21:33 BFH Uncategorized 30

I lived in NY. This seems so bizarre.

30 Comments on Short Film Documenting NYC Flooding

  5. How good can things be in Brooklyn if a former Blockbuster site is still for lease with the old sign still in place?

    And why are people driving so fast through standing water?

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  13. &, no …. this probably isn’t a record. it’s just ‘recorded’ as the highest since NYC started taking notes. no wonder the Indians sold it! …. Suckers!!!!

    this is what happens when the city services $$$ are directed to ‘social equity’ instead of things like … oh, I don’t know …. ‘stormwater management’?

    since the Hurricane Hazel incident in 1954 the Water/Wastewater Company I worked for became in charge of Stormwater Management. The Army Corps of Engineers built a dike system in the Anacostia River & built Flood Control Stations that we maintained for 30 years, until the local counties wanted to perform the Stormwater Management …. we were only too glad to turn it over! … they really didn’t have the personnel or resources to properly maintain the stormwater facilities or the stormwater system (we still maintained the wastewater systems) & guess what? … Bladensburg, Colmar Manor, lower Oxen Hill (by National Harbor), the Rhode Island Ave. area & Mt. Rainer regularly overflowed. whoda thunk it?

    an aside: the electrical systems were manufactured by ‘Roller-Smith’ … a company I never heard of in over 50 years in the electrical industry … (probably some relative of a congresscritter set up a shell company & bought crap-breakers, crap MCC’s & disconnecting means from a big manufacturer & pocketed the profit). we used to actually open the dead-fronts & slide in newspaper to catch falling parts when we operated a piece of equipment … no kidding …. after all, we frequently had to repair the danged thing after operation!

    … & no one, absolutely no one made or had Roller-Smith parts … go figure

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  16. “Climate change” F***ing idiot deserves what he gets.

    Dadof4 – The other day, when the flooding started I thought it might have been a tropical storm but I never watch the news. So, I googled to see what is causing the flooding. Out of the many results, CNN had state it was due to “symptoms of climate change.”

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  17. Most of those cars that are stalled out probably ingested water and seriously damaged the engine which makes for a very expensive repair bill. Never drive thru high water unless you know you’ve got the ground clearance to do so and then slowly at that.

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  18. What those idiots don’t realize is they were slogging along and falling down in raw sewage. Dirt thing that happens in a flood is the water infiltrates the sanitary sewers, and all that shit comes bubbling up to the surface. They’re New Yorkers; even if they did know it they wouldn’t care.

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  19. This wasn’t caused by rain, and historically there’s been plenty of it at times, also melting snow.

    This is about lack of maintenance, filth, and too much garbage from the streets going into and clogging up the storm drains.

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  23. It’s Climate Change – period. Doesn’t matter that this happened in the past. Worst rainfall since Hurricane Donna in 1960 – so what caused that rainfall? Maybe these things happen from time to time. And this time, the garbage clogged storm drains failed the people of NY.

    I can not believe how fast people are driving through the high water – idiots deserve their stalled and ruined cars.

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  24. STP

    Here’s a clue, the climate has been changing every damn day since the earth was formed. You can take the entire human history of human emissions into the atmosphere and it would be less than a quarter of the annual emissions of volcanos above ground and below the sea.

    Climate change indeed.

    You true believers are just imbecilic children.

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  26. I live in Utah, and if we were to get rain at 2″/hr, we’d be celebrating the water refilling the reservoirs and aquifers.
    Many houses don’t have basements. (but deep waters would lift the house off the foundation slab)
    And the ones that do have basements, my sympathy to them.
    I have a basement (with window wells about a foot above ground level), but my neighborhood is on a gentle slope, so any flood waters would run past the houses to lower levels.

    My car is a 4Runner, with high ground clearance (as are many other cars in the state), but even at that, I’d be calling the boss, “I’m not coming in to work today. I’ll let you know if I see a large boat floating by.”

  27. Other random “thoughts”:
    Reminds me of every annual monsoon (4 July-Labor Day) in south Arizona
    Reminds me of the spring thaw in SLC, UT (83? 84?) (I wasn’t there that year); State St was a river, store fronts were either sandbagged or flooded. The city/state improved the drainage and catchment system REAL quick after that.

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  30. Sickening. But not as much so as the smell that will hang in the air as all that water recedes and all the waterlogged furniture and carpets are put out at the curb.

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