How Donald Trump Tried to Cash In by Dumping Sewage Into the Hudson River

|

How Donald Trump Tried to Cash In by Dumping Sewage Into the Hudson River

"Donald Trump is loud and boastful on camera, but sometimes he operates more quietly off screen, like when he needed to solve a sewage problem beneath the streets of Manhattan—a problem that mysteriously evaporated one day in 1994, allowing a flood of cash that saved Trump from drowning in debt.
This is a little-known aspect of how Trump bungled the chance to make billions of dollars building on the largest developable tract of land in America’s largest city, a story the late actor Christopher Reeve called “the American dream gone berserk.”
Way back in 1974, when Trump was not yet 30 years old, he acquired control of the old Penn Central rail yards on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. For a song, he had 57 acres of land along the Hudson River that ran 13 blocks from 59th Street to 72nd Street."

Water for Coal

|

How it Works: Water for Coal

"Coal-fired power plants, which produce almost half of the country’s electricity, have significant impacts on water quantity and quality in the United States. Water is used to extract, wash, and sometimes transport the coal; to cool the steam used to make electricity in the power plant; and to control pollution from the plant. The acts of mining and burning coal, as well as dealing with the waste, also can have major effects on water quality."

March 21, 2017 Evening

|

Good evening! Partly cloudy and 47 degrees in City of Albany. There is a west breeze at 15 mph. Not a terrible evening but that breeze does make it a bit chilly feeling. Warm enough though that the snow is rapidly melting. 

Had to stay at work until 6 pm, now heading home on the bus, listening to a podcast. Going to have a quick dinner then go down to the library for a bit. Nice having the daylight in the evening. It will be nice once it warmer up enough to get to the park. Won’t long before they flip the switch and it really warms up. We usually have temperatures around 30 degrees before it warms up to around 80. Indeed the monthly climate outlook suggests a warm spring. We will see. 

The sun will set at 7:09 pm with dusk around 7:37 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for partly clear conditions and 43 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 15 mph.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 27 degrees at 6am. Five degrees below normal. West wind 8 to 16 mph. In 2016, it got down to 27 degrees with periods of snow. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1875.

Waning Crescent Moon tonight with 39% illuminated. The moon will rise around 1:19 am. The New Moon is next Tuesday. The Full “Pink” Moon is in 3 weeks. The sun will rise at 6:54 am with the first light at 6:26 am, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. Tonight will have 11 hours and 43 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, with a high of 27 degrees at 6am. 19 degrees below normal. Temperatures dropping through the day.  Blustery, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Pretty cold. A year ago, we had snow and a high of 53 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 2012. 7 inches of snow fell back in 1887.

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. Saturday, a chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 50. Thsts at least 50% warmer than tomorrow. Assuming temperature math works that way which it does not. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, a chance of snow showers before 8am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 8am and noon, then a chance of rain showers after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Typical average high for the weekend is 48 degrees.

In four weeks on April 18 the sun will be setting at 7:41 pm, which is 32 minutes later then today. In 2016 on that day, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 78 and 40 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 60 and 38 degrees. The record high of 90 degrees was set back in 1976.

Looking ahead, Average High is 50 is Next Tuesday, Tax Day is in 4 weeks, Average High is 70 is in 8 weeks, Summer is in 3 months, Independence Day is in 15 weeks, Election Day 2018 is in 85 weeks and Election Day 2020 is in 189 weeks.