Holy Saturday night rainfall, batman
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Anonymous
Just awful. Remember last summer when we got a torrential 3" of rain in like 60 minutes? That seemed incredibly unusual, and I felt so lucky that if we survived that, we could survive most storms. Russ said he calculated 5.25" in Del Ray, and there was still some light showers after his 4:30am post. https://twitter.com/patpend/status/1426826207220359169 Thankfully, we appear to be dry--at least nothing obvious. The benchmark just keeps increasing and increasing. And people still deny that climate change is real? Insane. And yes, overdevelopment is also an issue. |
Anonymous
+1 Have you seen the pictures of Del Ray on NextDoor? Not only the flooding in the streets but the raw sewage gushing up through peoples' toilets and bathtubs. The pictures and videos of it that people have posted are absolutely horrible. Those morons in City Hall need to DO SOMETHING about this problem that they've ignored for years. |
Anonymous
Holy cow, that guy walking in it with the water up to his waist, that is incredibly dangerous. With the current he could be knocked off his feet and swept into a car or even under a car. Gaaaah! Why do people do stuff like that!?! |
Anonymous
I saw some of these on a news article and before I clicked the bolded I knew which one your worst nightmare would be - me too! |
Anonymous
Local areas of heavy rain is weather not climate. On average, the area did not get significant rain. Previous engineering solutions to drainage was to simply channel to somewhere else. That never worked at scale. More modern solutions focus on capturing the water and holding it for slow release. Permeable asphalt and catch basins are the future solutions that will be slow to implement but better in the long term. Everyone dumping their gutters into the street does not scale. |
Anonymous
The Drain Alexandria Twitter states that the water issues are being worsened by climate change. Perhaps if Alexandria invests in more bike lanes and gets more cars off of the road, that would be a partial solution to this problem. |
Anonymous
Alexandria needs to repair the sewers that they've let deteriorate for years. Instead Alexandria is happy to have a proliferate number of bike lanes used by one or two people a day while pumping raw sewage into homeowners houses and into the Potomac River. That's right, Alexandria routinely pumps raw sewage straight into the Potomac River when we get more than 1/4 of an inch of rain. They've been doing it for at least 10 years. Disgusting. |
Anonymous
You might want to check your math. Even if you eliminated every car in Alexandria, it wouldn't be noticeable. |
Anonymous
5+ inches of rain in nary a couple of hours is not "local areas of heavy rain." These kinds of deluge events are happening much more regularly--every year, if not more. Regularly well over a month's worth of rain in like 2 hours (or less) is not normal weather. |
Anonymous
Wrong. The DrainALX account clearly and consistently state that in her opinion it’s caused by insufficient infrastructure. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSm1GHUH-yx/?utm_medium=copy_link |
Anonymous
| I cannot stand when you use this stupid phrase op. Stop it. |
Anonymous
Old infrastructure combined with insufficient capacity, combined with climate change is the problem. |
Anonymous
No! Kapow! Shazam! |
Anonymous
Climate change centered on the Del Ray area? |
Anonymous
Climate change that is causing massive, incredible amounts of rainfall, more frequently. Del Ray doesn't flood during normal rainfall. We're getting hit with overwhelming amounts of rain on a much more regular basis, and that is part of climate change. We got 1-2 months worth of rain in like 2 hours - that is not historically normal, but it is happening more frequently. Del Ray is not the only area that floods during excessive and unprecedented rainfall. That doesn't mean that our infrastructure doesn't need huge updates, but climate change is obviously a part of the problem. |