Oddbean new post about login | logout @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.
@134318c2 @dc243d62 Funny that. Even Las Vegas, in particular The Strip, has river beds that have been built over. A few years back that became really obvious to lots of folks. I wonder also about places like Tokyo where they’ve built highways over the old streams and waterways, lots of concrete and no place to absorb the rain, but it knows where to go. Many cities around the world will find out in the coming years it seems.
@134318c2 Water is patient. Water just waits, wears down the clifftops, the mountains, the whole of the world. Water *always* wins. https://youtu.be/bUWqybKVpHc?si=uNSSL7Kn1hxmlyZa