NYC Unveils Dramatic New Severe Weather Plan as Ida Deaths Top 40
Source: WNBC
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a new approach Friday to managing severe weather that he says will "bluntly be a jolt to people" but one he says is necessary to address increasingly frequent major flooding events -- as the scope of devastation from this latest one continues to expand.
His NYC Climate-Driven Rain Response plan involves three main components: more severe warnings, basement apartment evacuations and a 30-day extreme weather response task force to devise solutions quickly and expedite implementation.
"We can say now that extreme weather has become the norm, we need to respond to it differently. It's even different than just a few years ago," de Blasio said. "We've got to acknowledge it. New reality requires a new paradigm."
"We're going to in particular focus on a different warning, a much more severe kind of warning and a much more severe set of actions, very physical actions, that bluntly will be a jolt to people, a shock to people," the mayor said of new phone alerts. "But we've learned that we have to introduce these things into the equation."
Read more: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/we-need-to-act-biden-approves-ny-nj-emergency-declaration-as-cleanup-continues/3255021/
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I found a pic of one that goes to our subway-surface trolleys and el, where the below pic of an entrance is for one of the locations near where we had severe flooding along the Schuylkill River downtown (this is the 22nd & Market St. stop) -
It has a step-up curb. Not sure how height but it looks like it might be 6".
particularly due to the ADA and had/have been going from station to station to update them.
For example, this is what they did with the 13th St. entrance (near the Convention Center) for the El -
And the entrance to the 5th St. / Independence Hall station for the El is brand new (since I retired)! 
I drove by there every day to go to/from work and remember the last updates they did probably 10 years ago (including adding an elevator from the street). So apparently they took all that away and redid it again (did a quick search and that reopened in 2020).
(article's radio transcript)
By Mike DeNardo, KYW Newsradio
7 hours ago
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — With the deluge of water that swamped Philadelphia and created a canal out of the Vine Expressway, you might wonder why our subways didn’t flood like some in New York City did. It’s primarily a matter of prevention, according to SEPTA.
“The first thing is to try to catch the water before it gets into our system,” SEPTA deputy general manager Bob Lund told KYW Newsradio. “It’s the surface runoff on all the sidewalks, streets, paved areas, how that is handled, and trying to make sure that it doesn’t get into our entrances.”
SEPTA has worked with the Philadelphia Streets Department to raise curb lines to reduce the amount of runoff flowing down into subway vent wells, Lund said.
Lund said after Superstorm Sandy, the Federal Transit Administration funded a program to fortify SEPTA’s underground pumping system. “We went through an aggressive program of rebuilding the pumps to build in redundancy, both in the power system and the pumps themselves.”
More: https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/why-septa-subways-didnt-flood-when-new-york-citys-did
Now we just have to get rid of the "1-676 Vine Street Expressway Canal" and we'll be good to go!
Link to tweet
Supposed to be done pumping tomorrow but most of the roadway will remain closed as they need to check the surface after that.
There was some dumbass out there tubing in it yesterday.
I think that view is looking west at the interchange for getting on or off the Schuylkill Expressway onto the Vine St. Expressway. I would get to the Vine St. Expressway from the little ramp that goes down there from the Parkway (~25h St.). I usually try to avoid using the Schuylkill Expressway. Too many trucks there.
and was not referencing any "direction" for the pic of the guy "tubing" on Vine Street that you fixated on for some reason.
I am a multi-generational Philadelphian (going back to the 1800s), born and raised and still living here. I commuted to work along there for over 30 years before retiring (the first couple years catching the regional rail and El to get to my office but that was taking me too long - it was actually cheaper and faster to drive).