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  • http://twitter.com/PsychicWhoosh Michael W.

    Now I know what the prequel to Waterworld would look like.

    In less than a decade now we’ve seen these nightmare storm scenarios destroy portions of New Orleans and New York. 

    I am a rational person who understands this could merely be coincidence, but it is becoming harder and harder not to consider the frequency of these extreme weather events is a clear signal in the random chaos of atmospheric noise. 

    • awjt

       nah just isolated events/god’s will/bad luck/unrelated phenomena/choose-your-own-denial

    • http://profiles.google.com/greeneggsandsamuel Sam Archer

      To be fair, New Orleans was built below sea-level…  New York looks pretty bad though.

      • disillusion

        Pretty much this.  The problems with New Orleans were mostly man-made, but then with any city close to the ocean when there’s a storm surge such as what generally comes with a hurricane you’re going to see a fair amount of damage.

  • acerplatanoides

    That happened to my car the other year. Needed to change the oil, vacuum out the computer, and sit it out in the sun to dry out -  but it was fine. 

  • http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch

    Wait I know that movie. And next it’s gonna get cold, really cold and there’ll be wolves out for prey in the street, directed by some german dude in hollywood.

  • hugh crawford

    I lived on 8th street between B and C in the late 1980s in a basement duplex apartment, and it would flood every time it rained or the fire department came to put out a fire in one of the many arson fires on the block.

    Turns out that Tompkins Square was called Tompikins Slough and a stream ran down what is now east 8th street.

    More info here

    http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/new-york-history-27.shtml