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How Philly’s trash problem made Hurricane Ida flooding worse
WHYY(PBS Philadelphia) ^ | 09/03/2021 | Ryan Briggs

Posted on 09/08/2021 1:01:04 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

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To: Kid Shelleen
The natives have a bad habit of throwing out trash wherever and whenever they feel like.

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.

21 posted on 09/08/2021 6:31:27 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
father to son

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.

22 posted on 09/08/2021 6:35:07 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: EEGator
Do you find drugged out zombies living under tarps on your sidewalk? Do people randomly try to stab you for being white? Do women walking around offer BJ’s for drugs or alcohol?

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.

23 posted on 09/08/2021 6:46:44 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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LOL! Perfectly logical. I presumed wrong!

24 posted on 09/08/2021 8:08:59 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: End Times Sentinel

I was talking about North Philly and Kensington.
My point to him is comparing New Hampshire and Philly is ridiculous.


25 posted on 09/08/2021 9:13:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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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.


26 posted on 09/09/2021 5:30:15 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: EEGator

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.


27 posted on 09/09/2021 5:44:05 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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That’s sad.


28 posted on 09/09/2021 6:12:20 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

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.


29 posted on 09/09/2021 6:23:34 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Kid Shelleen

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........


30 posted on 09/09/2021 11:59:15 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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