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The trouble is that taps are hardened steel. If one breaks off in a blind hole that you’re re-tapping, it’s a yowling PITA to remove.

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Fossil fuel use per annum per capita in NYC is actually very low as compared to the rest of the country. Shared walls in apartments and houses make for good insulation, and daily travel distances are quite small.

But those things only work in a big city. What we need is a grand-scale project to convert the US economy into one based mostly on electricity and hydrogen produced using nuclear, hydro, and renewables. This should be combined with conservation wherever feasible without reducing comforts. It can be done — the challenges are engineering and financial problems at this point, not questions of theoretical physics.

The idea is to effect positive change WITHOUT reducing comforts.

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Well it looks very much like global warming is now shouting at the top of its voice, and it still looks very much like the subject remains taboo, at least on the media.

Save the country, and the world. Treat all oil company employees, from the lowest to the highest, like the proverbial soldier returning from Vietnam in 1969. Basically, make them sorry to have been born.

And yeah, I realize that locking up the drug dealers doesn’t solve the drug problem. But it’s a good start. Other than that, we should fund a thousand companies like Solyndra, see what new tech sticks, and print money if needed to roll it out. Combine the New Deal and the Manhattan Project, and let’s be the guiding light of the world rather than a fuckin’ laughingstock.

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Point being that there will be some inventory in any neighborhood, simply because codgers do “move on” eventually. The cheaper that inventory is, the better for you.

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These owners have owned their house for many many years, so they wouldn’t need to sell. If market is up, they might sell, but if it crash, they’ll stay put.

Two words for you: estate. sale.

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No flooded basement, and my car was safely parked outside of NYC the day before the storm. The building further down my block closer to the East River had a flooded basement, which actually started a minor electrical fire last night.

This was extent of flooding near me last night. The bridge in far background is the 59th St. Bridge to Queens, and it’s rather amazing that the streetlights are still burning with their bases under a foot of water:

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I have nothing but time. So, it doesn’t have to be available now.

So here’s hoping for another 2008-style crash. For your sake of course. *CLINK*

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Taco Hell “Mexican” “food” normally makes me want to liquish!t on the face of the person who prepared it about 1/2 hour after I ingest it. Note that I don’t say “eat it.”

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Looks like the East River freeway is now completely flooded 🙁

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Good to hear, Keep us posted if possible.

Well, still have power here. Utilities are mostly underground. My street is oddly calm, since it runs east-west, has a bunch of 6-story buildings on it, and the wind is primarily blowing north-south right now.

East River level is rising again — it’s fully overflowed to cover the walkway along the river at this point. Lots of flooding and trees down in NJ (especially South Jersey) and Long Island from what I’m hearing. Also a crane collapsed on 57th St, and is dangling broken down the side of a building.

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Hi! Fine here for now.

Parts of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn are getting hit by storm surge and some low-lying areas are flooded — luckily I don’t live in an area below sea level. The East River is just about at sidewalk level and sloshing over about a block from my place, down a fairly steep hill. The highway along the river is closed of course.

No strong wind nor serious rain as of yet. That comes later around 4-5 pm this afternoon.

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We did not have time or energy to carpet and paint but it did not seem to be a problem.

I’d imagine that lack of stanky, easily dirtied, chemical impregnated carpet would be a positive selling point not a negative. What’s the Kalifornicator obsession with carpet (even in toilets, for xhrist’s sake)?

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To give some idea of the remoteness of the place – I considered applying in the 90s. The college’s phone # at the time was something like Deepsprings-9. No area code or 7-digit number, because all calls had to be routed via an AT&T operator in Nevada.

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“A bit selective” is like saying Stalin was “a bit nasty.”

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Is this a historical district or just a prissy McHOA development?

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