[lbo-talk] climate & chaos

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Aug 8 19:53:43 PDT 2007


Bring it on, if so. I rode my bike to work, and laughed cruelly at all the fuming, wheel-pounding drivers I passed en route.

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 22:39 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> We had transit chaos in NYC today after an intense overnight
> rainstorm dumped 2 inches of rain in an hour. Subways were flooded;
> the official line was that about half the system was shut down; word
> on the street is that it was higher. Street traffic was horrendous -
> worse than the last transit strike. Subway watchdog Gene Russianoff
> says that the Transit Authority is facing more of these intense
> storms. You've got to wonder if this was a climate change event, and
> there's lots more of this to come.
>
> Doug
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