Rain this year at 37" and rising (Duquesne, Bath: home, neighborhood)

[Copanut]

We are becoming a nation of weenies. It's just rain, for Chrissakes.

[svband76]

Originally Posted by phlinak

Or from Pittsburghers crying over the Pirates this season and the Steelers' perform in Cleveland yesterday.

ha but the Bucs at 71-71 is a pleasant surprise to most.

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by zalewskimm

ha but the Bucs at 71-71 is a pleasant surprise to most.

But not to Nutting, he had to spend some cash this year.

[Enough_Already]

Originally Posted by WhoIsStanwix?

How many hundreds of millions do you have? Relocating, burying, elevating, or building levees and a drain system would surely cost several hundred million if not a billion. How is that even remotely similar to the cost of connecting two areas that desperately need a connection, and what has it got to do with record amounts of rain?

Add up all of the dumb projects like that one. It is another case of spending money where there is limited benefit at the expense of spending money where we would get the most bang for our buck.

[Copanut]

Hate to do this, but here are the facts:


I-376's 'bathtub' has been a complicated flooding concern for decades | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by zalewskimm

ha but the Bucs at 71-71 is a pleasant surprise to most.

Standards for the Bucs are extremely low. Finishing .500 is a giant success to many.

[xdv8]

Originally Posted by Enough_Already

Add up all of the dumb projects like that one. It is another case of spending money where there is limited benefit at the expense of spending money where we would get the most bang for our buck.

Which "dumb projects" add up to enough to fix that? Please tally and we can have a conversation about them because as is yours is just another useless comment.

[gg]

Originally Posted by Copanut

We are becoming a nation of weenies. It's just rain, for Chrissakes.

Rain, flooding trees down all over the place. So long as it doesn't effect you, I guess you are right for yourself. I have a few hundred in damage from it this year and have a couple of neighbors in the thousands. Again, that isn't a concern for YOU.

Not to mention the point is completely flooded and it is going to get higher. Will be a complete mess down there and the bike trails are probably trashed as usual. It isn't "a little rain", we are wildly above normal. Delafield was closed all day with power lines tree down etc. It isn't all that great for many.

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by gg

Rain, flooding trees down all over the place. So long as it doesn't effect you, I guess you are right for yourself. I have a few hundred in damage from it this year and have a couple of neighbors in the thousands. Again, that isn't a concern for YOU.

Not to mention the point is completely flooded and it is going to get higher. Will be a complete mess down there and the bike trails are probably trashed as usual. It isn't "a little rain", we are wildly above normal. Delafield was closed all day with power lines tree down etc. It isn't all that great for many.

I had to take a 20 mile detour yesterday due to the flooding. 3 years ago after heavy rains a tree fell and skipped off my house. Stuff happens, it ain't the end of the world. You just DEAL with it.

[Enough_Already]

Originally Posted by xdv8

Which "dumb projects" add up to enough to fix that? Please tally and we can have a conversation about them because as is yours is just another useless comment.

That is what we pay our "leaders" to do. Instead they build bike lanes which benefit a tiny number of people compared to the cars which used those streets, the plan parks over streets, and they plan to spend hundreds of millions to make an airport the travelling public loves smaller. There are billions of dollars spent on things that benefit very few people which are paid for by the rest of us.

We were told they were going to expand the convention center yet the just built a much bigger one which is greatly underutilized. The taxpayers voted against the original stadium proposal yet we have two new stadiums. Our leaders spend money to build monuments to themselves to further their own ambitions instead of fixing infrastructure.