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Dave Levitan
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Power outages and dangerous heat advisories almost overlap in Texas right now
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Lawrence Vulis@lvulis.bsky.social |
178 followers 267 following 727 posts
Climate Data Scientist working on natural hazards and climate risk in the property sector. Interested in the science and management of water, climate, cities, and landscapes, along with food and dogs. Opinions are solely my own.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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Power outages and dangerous heat advisories almost overlap in Texas right now
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Bill Haneberg
@haneberg.bsky.social
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A 1000-yr rain event over eastern #Kentucky in July 2022 resulted in floods that killed 45 people. Here's a link to my just-published open-access paper looking at topography, precipitation variability, mountaintop removal coal mining, and flood severity. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/aeg/eeg/arti...
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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The IRA has put money into renovating and upgrading energy infrastructure in America's school buildings. This is a huge deal. When's the last time you were in a school building? Tell your educator friends and colleagues. There is *uncapped* *noncompetitive* funding available.
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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It's been used for wastewater plants so maybe a possibility (total speculation here). Could it be used to finance some of the EV charging infrastructure being put up at libraries in SD??
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Does anyone actually have solid resources on how IRA tax credits could be used by a WWTP or municipal agency that could be shared with civil/wastewater engineers? Can't find a good summary, nice example in OP here but need an explainer. @costasamaras.bsky.social ?
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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
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Gonna keep urging people to write postcards to voters in swing states or volunteer to phonebank from home. It's easy and every little bit counts and means a little bit less someone else has to do. As long as there's time, there's hope.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN
@sdinpraxis.bsky.social
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Artistic 'splay Nine thirsty cocker spaniel pups
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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The newish NEM is kinda screwing any possible newcomers too, so things are going great.
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Wind turbines are big boys on the ground you should totally go
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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David Sacerdote
@davidsacerdote.bsky.social
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A world where rates rise, but not in ways that match the risk is one where people take risk that they shouldn't, and overall cost to society is higher.
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Wrapping back here CBS found a lot of people to hate on the lanes for bad reasons www.cbs8.com/article/news...
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Comparing this with what was there is depressing bsky.app/profile/lvul...
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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This doesn't belong in a city. Or anywhere, but especially not in a city.
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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This is the dumbest fucking street ever and we walk here pretty regularly. The double stop sign there perpendicular to the exit is also INSANE
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Tbf there is significantly more vehicle capacity on the i5 but yeah - eventually reclaiming that space would be amazing. This is the pic
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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But actually lmao
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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The park is incredible but still has some big "cars rule here" features
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Tbh they should have also consolidated the parking within the park into a structure and boosted public transit + bikes (and bike parking) into the park. The lane going thru the west side just gets packed during events and people speed and it's dumb.
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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I was just confused because it's southbound and like ... why would you want to drive thru this.
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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I once witnessed a possibly 5 mph accident during afternoon rush hour while on the trails nearby. Sedan rearended a minivan, got pretty busted up, and the passenger got out and immediately tried to hitch hike. It was kinda surreal
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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I will never find this on my phone tn but there's a photo or drawing looking uptown from south of the park before the 5 was put in. It's crazy
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Yeah so all of mission valley and the 163 thru the park kill me. They're rivers. They fill with water. These are floodplains. There's photos of cabrillo canyon or whatever filled with water prior to the highway construction.
www.fema.gov/flood-maps
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Altho I think the actual issue is the bikelane down into the river valley is basically blocked by construction just west of the 163.
www.sandag.org/projects-and...
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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You mean 25% kidding because that's the plan
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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My companies office is just north of the 8 and like...I don't understand how I can bike there from uptown. The bus commute is an hour plus.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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the bike lane network is being built out slowly but surely. still ways away from a tipping point where getting around on a bike generally will not suck, and the diffuse way biking and walkability improvements are being spread throughout the city prob isn't helping
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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This is extremely informative - and NGL the op about it seeming disorganized/w.o vision is because it still comes off as that without getting into all the nuance, but maybe in 10 years everyone will be a lot happier
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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La Jolla residents slammed down densifying along the line even though it'd massively benefit the school and it just MAKES SENSE
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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I dunno how much power the community planning group has over transit but the uptown CPG elections are coming up, @bikesd.bsky.social is running, and there could be some solid improvements. www.uptowncommunityplanning.org
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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The Hillcrest/uptown community plan revision has a streetcar (probs sandag driven) proposal for 5th or 6th ave from downtown<->Hillcrest<->NP<->elsewhere. The latest draft X'd the 2035 date for a 2050 date. It doesn't even feel serious
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Yeah not trying to defend things here, just point out there's some logic. OTOH they're densifying all over (~5k units) under construction Hillcrest/Np/downtown etc. and there's not even a consistent fixed track transit option (or bus that circulated the park).
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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They may be adding apartment blocks nearby or within the set of freeways. There's some construction near aero drive also, but yeah you gotta cross the freeways
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Oh he's much smallern ! The color variation in the litters is nuts. Ours is Basia, she's just over three so just a bit older. I think the breed runs kind of lean under all that fair to be fair!
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Yes!! Ours is about 30 lb a little bigger. We keep her hair kinda short because it's relatively hot here.
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Adorable!! Awesome thank you! BIL was a massive success as well!
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Was this thru BIL or IRA? Also gathering links/examples to share. P.s. is that an Australian labradoodle in your pfp??
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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Talk to the wastewater engineers in your life, they probably don't even know this is something that can change the dynamics and budgeting of their city's (or their clients) CIPs.
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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The IRA has literally driven money into refurbs and improvements at WWTP/WWRFs and schools. This is a huge amount of capital to make things better. Columbus practically HALVED the costs of major sewer treatment projects thru IRA.
uswateralliance.org/taking-clima...
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Slashing methane is a major climate win from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. It’s $850 million (6% of EPA budget!) for “projects that help track — and stop — methane leaks tied to oil and gas production.” This would’ve a been career-defining win a decade ago. Now it’s Monday after holiday weekend.
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Lawrence Vulis
@lvulis.bsky.social
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This is such a huge deal and needs to be blasted. Saw NYC friends over the weekend who just weren't familiar with any IRA wins and they're tuned in. Need more advertising. Sent them your @volts.wtf interview (and the school tax credit one).
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John Kostyack
@kostyack.bsky.social
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Investors are angry about companies' funding of lobbyists to advance agendas at odds with their public pronouncements. 1/5 of Business Roundtable's members express support for SEC's climate risk disclosure rule while funding BRT's efforts to overturn it. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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Celeste Pewter
@celestepewter.bsky.social
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ICYMI: The Biden Administration announced $504 million in funding to twelve tech hubs across the country, including locations in: * Colorado * Montana * Indiana * Illinois * Nevada * New York * New Hampshire * South Carolina * Ohio * Florida * Oklahoma * Wisconsin Full details in the link.
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Amanda Smith
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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.
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Celeste Pewter
@celestepewter.bsky.social
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Campaign news has overshadowed this.
For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards.
www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...
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Dr. Jeff Masters
@drjeffmasters.bsky.social
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Bottom line from the latest Beryl discussion from Bob Henson and I: It is likely that Beryl will make landfall in Texas on Monday as a rapidly intensifying hurricane, most likely as a Cat 1 or Cat 2, but landfall as a major Cat 3 is looking less likely.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/trop...
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isaac
@sevier.io
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Hey 👋 everyone who added me from @costasamaras.bsky.social’s climate starter pack! Hi! I work on electricity policy for energy justice. I’m part of the California crew who fought for “equitable building decarb” and a member of @cplusc.bsky.social. I’m queer. And I’m a former oil and gas engineer.
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Richard Waite
@waiterich.bsky.social
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Awful. The entire land area in the map just looks like an overcooked steak. Stay safe everyone.
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Celeste Pewter
@celestepewter.bsky.social
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And here's my checklist in graphic form.
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Celeste Pewter
@celestepewter.bsky.social
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I know we're all feeling a little down today. It feels like there's not much to celebrate. But action always helps.
But one thing I want to encourage all of you to do today?
1. Check your voter registration at www.vote.org/am-i-registe...
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