[lbo-talk] climate & chaos

Robert Wrubel bobwrubel at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 8 20:17:55 PDT 2007


New Yorkers never seem to be happy with the weather. Hasnt the East been in a drought for the last few/couple of years?

Consider the example of Los Angeles: no mass transit, no water, more agents than social workers. Who cares?

They just keep on growing.

BobW --- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:


> 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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