Not “butt hurt” - I volunteered for a job, and I do it. You broke rules. Rule 1 - “be civil” - you personally attacked another member of the community.
There are a lot of places in cities, even cities with a fair amount of trees like Chicago, where there could easily be far more trees. It would just mean taking up more sidewalk space, cleaning up leaves in the fall, petals in the spring, etc. Businesses start complaining about it.
And sometimes it could be trees but they think other things are prettier.
Here’s a bit of the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. Could those flowers be replaced with trees? I don’t see why not.
yeah. that image is what I meant by boulevard type things. Im just saying there is not a whole lot of options. Some more can be done but its going to have some hard limits from soil access.
The problem with planting trees in boulevards or in parking lot islands is that they cement and asphalt don’t allow a lot of water to filter through to the roots. They might be fine for a little while, you might be able to nurse them along if you find a way to water them. But ultimately, they will all die off earlier than they should.
Bradford pears were used a lot in my area, but were ultimately invasive. I think putting more native shrubs or bushes might help some since their drip like can be kept smaller than a tree’s.
It’s a problem I have to deal with regularly at work. So many parking lots had low canopy trees that just all died off at about the same time due to being in parking islands.
There is also increased maintaince as leaves must be cleared from the streets/sewers, dead branches must be removed before they are hazardous, and the city should be monitoring overall health to cut trees before they rot out and fall.
It depends on what is under that dirt. Is it deep enough for a root system, are there utilities under that, etc?
Also, mature trees will need some space for the root system to collect water and spread without destroying roadway. This is why a lot of warmer cities like to plant palm trees in medians - they have a pretty shallow / narrow root system.
I think it’s more dangerous for those of us from out of town/state, as the lack of humidity means you don’t sweat (or at least the same) so by the time you know your thirty it’s probably to late. I visited Arizona like 10 years back in like April and it was insanely hot already, and we kept an emergency case of water in the trunk of the car (on advice from a family member living there) and anytime we did any hiking we had camel packs and water bottles too as backup because we knew you had to just keep drinking.
It was funny though because Sedona was like the middle of a really hot summer in the north east, but they had ice in parts of the canyon still.
Yup. Me and some friends hiked it from rim to rim several years ago (staying at Phantom for a few nights as a break).
There was snow on the rims and we were wearing jackets when we started but we too were surprised to find it in the upper 70s at the bottom of the canyon.
The heat difference in the Canyon was wild - even of a night. This was September the year we went. I couldn’t imagine trying it in mid July.
I meant that with a high, or even “normal” humidity level you know when you are sweating. In that Arizona sun the air is so dry that you never feel sweaty, it instantly evaporates, but being so hot it also doesn’t act to really cool the body as intended. So it feels like you’re not sweating, potentially leading some to push harder not knowing how dehydrated they actually are until it’s too late.
I think of it like the boiled frog, only instead of boiling in water you are slowly losing water you don’t even feel leaving you.
I’ve hiked down to Phantom Ranch in July and it was an experience. The rocks are too hot to sit on. The ground is too hot to stand. The river is too cold to wade into for any length of time. It was 125 at the campsite. When the sun went down, the rocks just irradiated heat. I was never more glad to leave than waking up at 1am to hike out. We had to carry the pack of one of our comrades.
I wandered around a local park in Tennessee yesterday (as a chronically dehydrated and adapted person) and I drank 2 ltrs of water in a couple of hours and was still fucking dying.
Oddly, at least according to Wikipedia, the group that named it only lost one person there. They just expected to die.
A group of European-American pioneers got lost here in the winter of 1849-1850, while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, giving Death Valley its grim name. Although only one of the group members died here, they all assumed that the valley would be their grave.
I mean if they named it Death Valley, you would expect it would be because a bunch of people died there. But apparently it was a more after the fact thing.
It is still just as much of a crime to sex assault a child even if the child initiates the inappropriate contact. Stop them and get them some mental help.
Is that at all a controversial opinion? I guess among Trumpanzees there are plenty who condone sex assaulting children (or adults) as long as the perpetrator is part of the in-group.
Seems to be a wee man, which may have some relevance.
Musk publicly acknowledged Lamar’s situation on Twitter, committing to a repair solution for the Cybertruck. However, Lamar’s experience with two malfunctioning, nearly new vehicles raises serious quality control concerns for Tesla.
I love that they just call it twitter. No explanation, none of the crap “on X, formerly known as” it’s like a Musk failure story (‘X’ rebrand) within another Musk failure story (overpaying for, then killing twitter), within another Musk failure story.
Hey, corporate news - why don’t you treat this like it’s some kind of outlier that will surely ‘go back to normal’ to tomorrow, and not the first stages of the entire planet-wide ecosystem breakdown because we let corporate news not hold big oil accountable?
It’ll all be fine, we just have to ignore it, right?
[June] marked the 12th straight month that the world was 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times, the European climate service Copernicus said. Most of this heat, trapped by human-caused climate change, is from long-term warming from greenhouse gases emitted by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, scientists say.
Harder to get a hold of those assholes while they’re not in home soil. They’ll flee to [random tax heaven] on their private jets or yachts before we can even properly mobilize, all while drinking champagne.
This is part of why we need to change the way we build our cities. Vast stretches of wide roads and massive parking lots soak up a lot of heat. Tram lines can have grass between the rails. Pedestrian paths can be built with lighter colors. Cycling pathes take up less space and allow for green space. Building up instead of out keeps cities smaller and more contained, even providing shade on streets.
Less asphalt also mean rainwater run off is less of an issue. Rain water collects dirt, garbage, salt, oils, tire/brake dust, and increases in temperature as it runs along hot road surfaces towards sewers. These all impact local streams and lakes by poisoning the water and disruprting natural temperature regulations (many eggs use water temperature to determine if it is time to hatch and if food will be available when they hatch).
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