@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-07-16 12:38 UTC
"More than 2in of rain fell in Central Park in the 7pm hour on Monday evening, part of a regional downpour that filled the city’s highways and subway tunnels and prompted several water rescues.
A rainstorm exceeding the subway design limit had never been recorded before 1991 but has happened six times since then, including Monday’s rains."
That subway was built for a climate that no longer exists.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/16/new-york-floods-storm-climate-change
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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2025-07-25 15:08
City plans are made for a climate that no longer exists. Re-designing them will not be without pain. Not re-designing will bring a lot more pain. "Floodplains belong to the rivers. For too long, we have tried to make them part of the property of humans and a place for human habitation. That simply cannot continue—not without more tragedies like those we have just witnessed on the Guadalupe and in Houston." https://www.texasobserver.org/flooding-houston-hill-country-planning/