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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

+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.

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.

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

Old infrastructure combined with insufficient capacity, combined with climate change is the problem.

Climate change centered on the Del Ray area?

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

+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.

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.

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

Old infrastructure combined with insufficient capacity, combined with climate change is the problem.

Climate change centered on the Del Ray area?

Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand when you use this stupid phrase op. Stop it.

No! Kapow! Shazam!

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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

+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.

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.

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

Old infrastructure combined with insufficient capacity, combined with climate change is the problem.

I cannot stand when you use this stupid phrase op. Stop it.

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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

+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.

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.

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

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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

There was massive flooding in Alexandria. Worst I’ve ever seen in the 20 years I’ve lived there.

https://mobile.twitter.com/betsywhalen/status/1426767840883970050

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426875531572744196/photo/1

https://mobile.twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1426864893928558594

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426793118536450048

And this one is my worst nightmare. https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426769530060148740

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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

+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.

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.

You might want to check your math. Even if you eliminated every car in Alexandria, it wouldn't be noticeable.

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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

+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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

+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.

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 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

There was massive flooding in Alexandria. Worst I’ve ever seen in the 20 years I’ve lived there.

https://mobile.twitter.com/betsywhalen/status/1426767840883970050

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426875531572744196/photo/1

https://mobile.twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1426864893928558594

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426793118536450048

And this one is my worst nightmare. https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426769530060148740

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.

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 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

There was massive flooding in Alexandria. Worst I’ve ever seen in the 20 years I’ve lived there.

https://mobile.twitter.com/betsywhalen/status/1426767840883970050

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426875531572744196/photo/1

https://mobile.twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1426864893928558594

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426793118536450048

And this one is my worst nightmare. https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426769530060148740

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 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

There was massive flooding in Alexandria. Worst I’ve ever seen in the 20 years I’ve lived there.

https://mobile.twitter.com/betsywhalen/status/1426767840883970050

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426875531572744196/photo/1

https://mobile.twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1426864893928558594

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426793118536450048

And this one is my worst nightmare. https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426769530060148740

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.

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!?!

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Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

+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 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The weather station says we received 1" of rain here in Mount Vernon.

Crazy. Parts of Alexandria received over 5+ inches

There was massive flooding in Alexandria. Worst I’ve ever seen in the 20 years I’ve lived there.

https://mobile.twitter.com/betsywhalen/status/1426767840883970050

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426875531572744196/photo/1

https://mobile.twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1426864893928558594

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426793118536450048

And this one is my worst nightmare. https://mobile.twitter.com/DrainALX/status/1426769530060148740

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.