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5d9bfe83 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Not actually ideal. 

#flooding #brooklyn

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myrmepropagandist | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dc243d62 

I have been trying to explain about the Water Problem we are having in NYC and maybe... maybe this will help people to get it. 

This city has all kinds of crags and holes and they are not calibrated for this much water all at once. 

And they all need to be updated!

And we NEED to get green on the roofs, tax parking lots and stop the rapid run off. We cannot drain fast enough!
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myrmepropagandist | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dc243d62 

I don't know where you are exactly, Tanya, but NYC used to have brooks, and creeks all through BROOKlyn and the Bronx and Manhattan. Clear bubbling brooks rolled over the dark stone that's now the foundations of the skyscrapers. 

We ... buried the streams in underground drain tunnels, but they are all still there! Water is powerful and tried to return to these old paths and now that there is more... Well there is some thinking we need to do.