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One good feature reddit has is the tropical weather live thread [live] Hurricane Ida /r/tropicalweather Live Thread OLD.REDDIT.COM This is the live thread for /r/tropicalweather's tracking of Hurricane Ida.

Fortunately they get social security survivor benefits and should the program continue, the child tax credit benefit. The kids should be alright thankfully

Well in this case I read the twitter feed of the person doing it

Rail yards outside of the station and management of traffic

The bottleneck is passenger loading so the answer is more trains per hour and more cars per train. Otherwise it just takes time, same as if a freeway were to capacity and full of cars. If it takes ten minutes to load then waiting one minute for a single line track to clear isn't the issue.

Doing some looking into this, there's really only two major rail systems that don't have standard gauge: WAMTA, the DC metro (which is slightly narrower), and BART, SF Bay Area Rapid Transit, which is slightly larger Indian Gauge. The two major commuter lines in DC, VRE and MARC, both use standard gauge. For the Bay Area, other rail lines in the metro are standard. Reading about the problems of these two systems I thought using nonstandard gauge was more common than it is!$

Risk of Hospitalization Doubles With Delta Variant, Study Finds - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM The analysis of more than 40,000 coronavirus infections in England adds to evidence suggesting that Delta may cause more severe illness than other variants do.

I'm pretty sure this one is a bit

Nearest commuter line is in like Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, or Orlando and no guarantee those trains are compatible with track around NOLA (not to mention the logistics outside of the basics like train power source and gauge widths). As for Amtrak, well, Fate of Amtrak's Gulf Coast route lies with federal board | Mississippi Today MISSISSIPPITODAY.ORG Amtrak is at least one step closer to knowing how viable its plans are to return passenger rail service to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2022. Rail here, like almost everywhere else, is privately owned and you'd have to work around that and FRA rules, and that's if there is an agreement in place in the first place (which there probably should be!) Also, Well There's Your Problem is a good podcast (guy whose tweet you posted is a host)

This is god punishing us for tolerating Nathan j Robinson

Abolish single family homes and have ground level business/communal space with higher rise residential But yeah stilts would work too. It's fairly common practice in coastal Alabama after Katrina (iirc)

I'd imagine that a robust, well funded system to keep as much water out as possible and failing that removing as much water as possible as quickly as possible and the one major hurricane within 100 nautical miles of new Orleans per decade is manageable. That said, the city should probably shrink to the relatively higher ground within the city but as the port city at the mouth of the Mississippi it is invaluable

In a time before climate change NO was fine. It would continue to be fine if like, the Dutch ran it. (To be fair the dutch don't have major tropical storms coming through every few years) But in the hollowed out corpse that is american government, it's a mistake.

if the personal responsibility people really meant what they say (they don't) this would be uncontroversial. We should absolutely do this at some point in the near future once cases are more manageable

Until the 5-12 vaccine (and 2/6 month to 5 as well) is available It's all a time buying exercise anyway

Engineering is only about 50% "need to be on the floor" type work for the majority of engineering jobs. But that 50% might be half your day every day or two weeks on two weeks off. I've done both! But the number of jobs where there's a chance for full time, 100% remote is at best like 40% of all jobs and that might be vastly overshooting the number

Lmao

That the moratorium couldn't continue until the administrative state paid out appropriate funds for back rent is cruel. That the legislature dragged it's fucking feet and didn't extend it is incompetence

And besides the law in question gives the executive broad authority to quarantine in the name of public health. If that's unconstitutional then maybe, just maybe, the Constitution needs to be rewritten.

If Republicans could gather a national voting majority, which they haven't done since god knows when, 2004 probably, I'll gladly allow that. But that they decide instead to gameify the electoral process and rule with a minority of votes makes their rule illegitimate, even if it is legal. So, no.

SCOTUS overturns the CDC eviction moratorium