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Hate to be that guy... But it
By dd808
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 11:19am
Hate to be that guy... But it's North Washington St.
Ayup!
By adamg
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 11:21am
Fixed, thanks.
I don't know about any of you...
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 11:39am
but I don't know how comforted I would feel by the fast talking joke of a city "leader" when he starts talking his usual shit about all of this and just keeps letting them build and build and build and build.
Are these buildings at risk
By dm12
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:00pm
Are these buildings at risk of collapsing in the ocean or some such?
High tides plus nor'easter yields flood waters in landfill. Build the buildings to accommodate such issues, and all is well.
Why, yes!!
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:06pm
I'm sure the city will get right on retrofitting and making modifications on Beacon Hill and the Back Bay to make them more flood resistant. Sure. They'll get right on that. Maybe it's me and I'm just an old dope smoking guy, but I don't recall this being much if an issue here in the 60's and 70's or even the 80's in what was not called the Innovation District.
The Seaport district was
By dm12
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:11pm
The Seaport district was nothing but dirt lots 15 years ago, never mind the 70s. Hence, less stories about flooding empty land.
Nope
By anon
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:22pm
Got wet, didn't flood like this.
I was around and I remember. We are getting RECORD levels of flooding now. RECORD tide levels when records have been kept for a century.
There have been two instances
By dm12
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 1:02pm
There have been two instances of the harbor exceeding 15 feet.
Once in 78, once this January. This may be number 3.
Not exactly a trend. Did Fort Point flood in 78? Seems to be a safe presumption, tho I was not born.
I was...
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 1:05pm
And the storm destroyed the Peter Stuyvesant, the retired cruise ship that was moored at Anthony's Pier Four and flooded the area.
Put your money where your ignorance is
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 9:38pm
Go buy some coastal property and start diligently counting the times that it floods.
Just don't make any insurance claims, mmmkay?
BTW: Boston Harbor is part of the Gulf of Maine - and here's what is happening to sea level in the Gulf of Maine
What about Fort Point?
By anon
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:22pm
Buildings there for over 100 years. Flooding issues are recent.
Causeway Street
By anon
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:24pm
Wow. They just built these buildings?
Sorry, but this flooding is new.
Riiiiiight!
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:59pm
Uh-huh. And a chapel and a sub shop and some great restaurants and a dilapidated Army base, but it had it's charms. Unlike the joke it is today.
I think I have to agree. I
By anon
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 2:39pm
I think I have to agree. I spent more time in the seaport before it was developed. Now it just feels like a !%-ers wet dream. Pun intended.
It wasn't an issue in the 60s
By Joe P
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:45pm
It wasn't an issue in the 60s because climate change effects were decades away. Now they're here. Not that complicated. Building denser housing is one way to COMBAT climate change by reducing the necessity and impact of automobiles and hence carbon emissions. The new buildings in the Seaport are equipped to handle storm surge with utilities higher up and building ground floors at higher grade. As for the Back Bay, google "Boston groundwater trust" for starters. The city is working on these issues, more so than most other coastal cities in fact. Don't throw around lazy accusations if you don't know what you're talking about.
To say, Boston has long
By dm12
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:50pm
To say, Boston has long experienced flooding is an accusation?
I apologize to your feels.
No
By anon
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:58pm
To say that Boston has a long history of flooding is WRONG.
I wasn't responding to your
By Joe P
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 1:10pm
I wasn't responding to your comment above, which I agree with. Rather to Mr. Riccio who seems quite excitable but also ignorant of facts on the ground.
I love this guy!!
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:57pm
Yes, by all means, over expand the housing market in one of the most dangerous and vulnerable areas parts of the city due to climate change and hope all those sky gondolas will keep all the Uber drivers out! And those cars floating down there, were they designed to handle storm surge?
As far as the Back Bay and Beacon Hill, they still seem to be the quaint old neighborhoods that you see on the cover of every rag in this city, so when you say they're working on it, I don't see it. And I'm down there every day.
Well done, Mr. Wizard!
Oil Can Boyd
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 11:48am
"That's what they get for building a ballpark next to the ocean."
LOL at the idiots that parked
By dm12
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 11:57am
LOL at the idiots that parked their vehicles right on the water.
Hope insurance denies them.
Let's have a little sympathy
By Gary C
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:12pm
Not everyone is glued to the news/weather. If I pull into the same lot I park in every day and it's not flooded, it's not unreasonable to think that it'll be OK to park there.
The worst is that if they
By cinnamngrl
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:24pm
The worst is that if they pick up their car at low tide they may not realize that their car was flooded. They'll think the sunroof leaked or such.
You did not need to be glued
By dm12
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:31pm
You did not need to be glued to the weather to know a noreaster is on the way.
I'll spare my sympathy for
By Kinopio
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:57pm
I'll spare my sympathy for those that deserve it. These people are dumb and auto emissions are a big reason the city is flooding to begin with.
Sympathy for the deserving
By SamWack
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 2:58pm
POLONIUS
My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
HAMLET
God's bodkin man, much better. Use every man
after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping?
Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less
they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.
So Kinopio
By anon
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 5:07pm
How do you heat your house or apartment? What is the energy source of your electricity? What is the energy source of the public transportation you use? How did the contents of your home get transported from the factory to your home? I suspect the answer will confirm you are a fraud when you continue to blame cars for everything.
Again - please stop
By merlinmurph
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 5:16pm
Enough already
The idiots
By anon
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:25pm
The idiots are the ones who kept those lots open when they damn sure should know better after January.
Fool me once, shame on me ...
Why was that parking lot even open today?
By Ron Newman
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:50pm
It should have been closed yesterday once the size and extent of this storm became evident.
Rainy days
By JohnAKeith
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 1:13pm
They should have never taken down the Elevated!
Also, the irony of Canal St becoming .. a canal (again)
Water has receded at North Station
By roadman
Fri, 03/02/2018 - 3:19pm
Except for the curb cuts, which flood even in a minimal rain.
But the covered walkway has become a horrible wind tunnel.
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