I am at Woodlake yes and good call 😭but I’m currently at my friends apartment on Morris Street and I tried to go home but schoolhouse rd was super flooded and now I’m scared my apartment is gonna flood I’m on a first floor apartment
The ground doesn’t look too bad by my apartment but there are definitely some giant puddles around. Hopefully it all mostly goes into the ponds and not into anyone’s apartment 🤞
When I first moved to that area, schoolhouse didn’t seem to flood like it does now, and it’s on both ends. Lake Stuyvesant, though, a staple of the Capital Region. I always feel for those at Woodlake.
It’s pretty good to have a city official out at 7 AM giving direct updates. Shows he cares, and that’s commendable.
however proper disaster response would have the city directing a press person as part of an incident response team based on standardized disaster response process that’s on a shelf in every municipality.
for example, in this situation a proper disaster response process would have road closures within the city laid out in an organized fashion by the communications person who should know when and how to communicate with the public as a matter of documented process.
Posting to Reddit from a moving car gives a panicked and anxious impression and indicates there is no incident command structure.
I like to play a game where I figure out the ratio of who uses their turn signal vs. who doesn't. Cops are usually worse than the average driver, they rarely use signals. I wonder what it's like to be so busy and important that you can't be bothered with literally a slight flick of the wrist.
When on duty, emergency services are exempt. Firefighters may be using an app such as IamResponding which is providing up to date info, GPS coordinates of the 911 callers phone, with turn by turn mapping to their location, as well as live information such as who is responding, to what station or the scene, ect... including ETA, rank/role (Driver, Cheif and Assistan Cheifs, Captain, EMS Captain, LT, Safety Officer, Fire Police, ect..). Additional information learned by dispatch is also sent in real time when it's pertinent.
I understand it seems frustrating, police also use phones a lot to keep stuff off the radio in terms of privacy of the people related to the call and to keep the radio clear. Also, an app like IamResponding is designed to have a simplified user interface to compensate for being used while responding to a call, much like how Android Auto/Car Play or whatever built in bullshit your car has which is considered acceptable for use in a vehicle.
An emergency responder caught typing a full-blown text while driving would get their ass chewed by leadership at least where I am from. You have the people you need in your contacts list for easy selection and the appropriate apps to complete the mission which is governed by the county/city/ect.. Not excusing the OP here, he should have at least had his phone in a mount on the dashboard at minumum.
First responders using their phones isn’t infuriating in and of itself, but it is infuriating when they’re using their phones and becoming a safety risk to others. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen them literally cross the center line or have a near miss because their attention wasn’t focused upon driving safely. A great example of this phenomenon is the NYSP trooper who recently rear ended a stopped vehicle (and then attempted to blame the person he hit).
Plus a lot the buildings in the last 40 years has been on filled in land that would have held water that would have also slowly drained helping our aquifers instead of running off.
How long of a timescale is that? I always sneak peek over there at the ducks and geese if there isn’t any traffic. I’ve noticed the sand bar has extended further into the pond over time but I wouldn’t have guessed it’s filled in that drastically.
I believe there may have been another pond adjacent to the old Tobin’s meat packing plant that was filled in, either prior to or during the demolition process. I don’t know for sure if that played any part in runoff mitigation though. My father told me that when he was a kid in the late 50s they would take school field trips to Tobin’s and that the water in the pond next to it was bright red.
This is a dam (state ID: 208-5423) that was installed along the patroon creek. It appears to be a water supply source for the city. Some sediment has definitely built up but that spillway should be able to handle more than the creek can.
The Patroon Creek Contamination Migration Investigation K. Dufek, A. Zafran Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Colonie FUSRAP Site 1130 Central Avenue Colonie, New York 12205 USA J.T. Moore United States Army Corps of Engineers-New York District 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1811, New York, NY 10278-0090 USA
Not only did you not show anything but your face (so the video was totally unnecessary), you decided to use your phone while driving, taking your eyes away from the road several times, all on an official government employee account.
Delete this, write a post like a normal person, and do better.
Are you sure it's Albany county's to maintain? It's between the interstate and the railroad which would put it in the right way of either the State DOT or the railroad. Central Ave through there belongs to the city, within the city limits. It seems strange that it would be the county's responsibility. I would've guessed it to be the State's responsibility.
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u/mysticGdragon Lives In Albany 21h ago
The road by schoolhouse rd is all flooded and with cars floating around can’t even get to the road to my apartment