Tomorrow 1000s will discover that MTA busses aren’t just for poor people.
Month: October 2012
The resilient community
The talking heads will soon turn their attention to this. Will we get thorium reactors, one per block? Vertical farming?
The resilient community has broad applicability beyond just improving the ability of those of us in developed economies to preserve wealth and a quality of life despite severe system shocks. It can also be applied to the problems of counter-insurgency in semi-modern urban environment (to radically update a process that was built for the last century) and provide the potential for organic development in underdeveloped areas of the world.
The media is failing us
The media is in total failure mode. Instead of broadcasting useful info, like where food, power shelter might be found, they produce garbage reality TV. I hope the next storm washes them out to sea.
Begging for Power
The biggest indignity is having to go to fratty midtown bars for sustenance and power. The bro stench is overpowering.
Power loss
Entire block is dark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSlyZXMcrlo&t=230s
Coned Explosion
sounds of an explosion, power fluctuations, internet goes down. strong electrical burn smell when i open the windows. things are getting interesting around here.
Harnessing Hurricane Boredom
Instead of the excessively futile reloading of weather radar, having all the trapped, bored people solve captchas for the cure would be a much better outcome.
Hurricane Etiquette
when everyone keeps saying stay safe, they mean go to your local bar and enjoy the happy hour.
Wind Music
the howling wind sounds like that terrible flute player at the 2nd avenue subway stop.
Powerwashing the subway
if the subway flooding was more like power washing than the stale and infected soup we’re gonna get, i could see the advantages.