Posted on 09/08/2021 1:01:04 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
In Philadelphia, litter and illegal dumping have become climate issues.
Philadelphia Water Department crews spent days cleaning trash out of the city’s nearly 75,000 storm drains, in preparation for remnants of Hurricane Ida. Prodigious levels of trash and litter in the city — the only without a citywide street cleaning program — means storm drains are frequently clogged by debris.
“When we have a forecast and we know that we have a storm like this, we go out to areas that we know can be problematic, in terms of being low lying or where there’s a lot of trash or other debris that’s been clogging up drains,” said Brian Rademaekers, a spokesperson for PWD. “So we were doing that for the last five days ahead of the Ida event.”
Clogged drains, in turn, can be a huge problem
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There are actually quite a lot of areas that aren't monitored for dumping, it's not like folks are dumping open trash in their own neighborhoods.
The crux of this story is that NPR doesn't give a G-d Damn about what the citizens of Philadelphia experience until it advances their own agenda.
I'm sorry Gov., but there is zero likelihood that a member of this cenus could possibly know a paternal relationship other than committing a random felony, not recognizing one or the other.
I only spent a couple of days in N.H. this spring, but, an uneven comparison, it seemed to us like N.H. was quite a bit nicer than our (my native born son and I) home of South Philadelhia.
Not really to our liking, as we're long time/life long South Philadelphians, because it was kind of alien to us.
But we really didn't see much, or, really, any of what you describe, but maybe we gave the bad towns the miss.
I was talking about North Philly and Kensington.
My point to him is comparing New Hampshire and Philly is ridiculous.
No, fortunately there are no drug addicts lying around in my town.
However, if I want to see homeless heroin addicts I just have to drive into the city of Manchester. Several times right across the street from St Maries church they are sleeping on benches at 11:30 on a Sunday morning.
FYI, NH has one of the highest heroin addiction per capita in the nation.
This is a result of the Oxy addiction back 5-15 years ago.
When the Oxycotin became impossible to find, they switched to heroin.
The difference is the heroin is in the suburbs and the city.
The one young person I knew personally that died from a heroin overdose was from a good family. He was a great athlete. He did well in college. He had the potential to have a great career. He was a white male 25 years old when they found him dead.
So, no I do not live in a sh&t hole city like Philly. I live in a nice rural town where you do not have to lock your doors at night. However, drug addicts are everywhere. Not just in the hood. The dude who drinks vodka and Miller Lite is probably a functioning alcoholic.
That’s sad.
Yes, it was. Especially when you see it up close.
The kid sat next to me on the trading floor for 6 months.
He had great potential.
The boss paid for him to go to rehab.
If he could quit drugs, he could have come back to his job.
He could not.
The dirty little secret they won’t tell you about “climate change” - there’s more and more flooding and destruction because there are more and more people building more and more steel and concrete drainage barriers and heat sinks on top of each other........
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