Climate chaos shuts down trains 3

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   hapa Posted 5:29 pm
   15 Jun 2008

   how would you adapt rail?when i looked at this in 2006, i put more energy into thinking about much-better-buses than rail, precisely for the difficulty of protecting rail from tough weather, or rail investment from expanding into areas that were soon/later abandoned or heavily depopulated.
   i mean for passenger rail you'd need to protect the tracks, the control and power infrastructure, the stations, the access roads to the stations... it got gloomy.
   per person mile though i guess trains would offer the cheapest weatherproofing? then your local "protected routes" would focus on the train station and other major services.

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   Wolverine Posted 6:06 am
   16 Jun 2008

   Lack Of Funding Amtrak's Main ProblemBecause of selfish, individualistic attitudes in the U.S., gasoline taxes are grossly insufficient.  In western Europe and other places, these taxes have been used to build and maintain world class train systems.  In the U.S., Amtrak has to fight for pennies every year and is grossly underfunded, while environmentally destructive driving gets massive subsidies.  The fact that train tracks are being flooded by weather that's almost certainly caused by global warming and of which driving is one of the main causes, is just an ironic feedback effect.  It's far from the root of the problem.

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   rickahyatt Posted 10:03 am
   17 Jun 2008

   Not just trains not running in China, anymore...HOORAY!
   
   NO MORE  DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN WALMART PRODUCTS AS CHINA'S PEARL AND
   
   YANTZE DELTA INDUSTRIAL REGIONS FLOOD OUT!
   Yes, Weather Weapons work! (If they are unfortunately bi-hemispheric.)
   
    As these floods and other event continue, the CHICOM
   
   economic/polution attacks upon the US economy will now fail!  Their
   
   past driving up of gas and food prices will now mean ours will drop!
   
   California will see cleaner air, and less people there will turn gay
   
   from the hormonal imbalances and their foreign media propaganda! :)
   Well, I've blogged it long before, as you can read at
   
   http://www.bloglines.com/blog/rickahyatt or on my website,
   
   http://www.rickhyatt.freeservers.com, but here it comes whereby all those
   
   Pearl Delta CHICOM WALMART factories are going down the storm drain,
   
   and many of their dams still yet to go.  With this continued flood and
   
   typhoon season, so will it be so for the Yangtze Industrial Delta, as
   
   well. What this will mean for our new north-south economy, and for the
   
   new Canamexicamerica.  Since you don't hear about it from our
   
   CHICOM-controlled "Liberal Media," here are some links about it, or
   
   just Google "Flood China":
   - My "Weather Weapons" link on http://www.rickhyatt.freeservers.com
   
    What I was ordered to keep secret and then divulge at this point.
   - http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1213560846.ht ...
   
    Others finding out there are connections between the little-reported
   
   floods in China and to elsewhere.  But - It's not "Global Warming,"
   
   it's "Weather Weapons."
   - http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/05/content_8317 ...
   
    As the above blog reports, "Statistics in China are changing."  It's
   
   no long a "500 year flood," but parsed into a "50 year flood."  Not in
   
   Iowa, there it's called a "500 year flood.)
   - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_on_re_as/china_flo ...
   
    More details of this current flooding in the Pearl Delta area - And
   
   this is only the START of their annual rainy/flood season!  You'll
   
   notice one can find little, lately, out of Red China about the Three
   
   Gorges Dam situation, these days, as their troops are being used
   
   little for rescue, but much more for stopping riots against the CHICOM
   
   government.
   So NOW it's time for our own little Royal Flush of corrupt Government
   
   - See my website for details.
   
   "Telling the truth during times of universal deceit will be a revolutionary act." George Orwell, "1984"

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