wyueprouqi

wyueprouqi OP t1_jdty6kq wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Anybody Else Just Get a Call From the City? by wyueprouqi

This thread is about the handling of this situation, not about the actual amount in the water. The city botched this horrendously.

First, they send out a text message warning residents to drink bottled water after 2pm. This was at 1:15 pm today. Some people didn't get it until a little bit later. That gave people 45 minutes to get their hands on a necessary resource.

They didn't say what type of chemical or what locations were affected, you had to go to the website....which then went down due to too much traffic.

Fights broke out all over the city over water, and stores couldn't handle the demand.

Then the city retracts their statement, says that the water is fine until March 26th at 11:59 pm. People still panic because the damage has already been done.

Also it turns out the spill was actually on Friday, and the burning smell all over the city yesterday night was the result.

Now they're calling to redirect to a website using a cracked out robot that can't even read the link correctly.

Hopefully you're right about the amount. But in another situation like this, potentially worse or immediately life threatening, is this the kind of handling that is acceptable?

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wyueprouqi t1_j5lfeql wrote

Reply to What are the chances that development pressure from Pennsport, Passyunk, and Lower Moyamensing continues to the middle blocks? by NonIdentifiableUser

In a guess....eventually, but we're talking 8+ years out. It's going to take a major player to move in to make something happen. That area is rough.

Edit to add: I grew up in East Passyunk in the 90s/2000s. It's always been shady, but has been extremely so in the last decade or so. My analysis is based on a few things. I was looking to buy a house and had been out of the area a few years, so figured why not. Every property needed extensive work. Like absolute gut jobs. I visited two properties that had been worked on - both had been broken into. The first was trashed, the second we didn't investigate because it was clear someone was already in the building with us and we noped out. The level of dilapidation there coupled with poverty makes it hard to maintain these properties, and the safety issues are a deterrent as well, especially when there are safer areas to move to that aren't ridonkulously overpriced. It's gonna be one of the last sections of South Philly to see change.

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wyueprouqi OP t1_iyt06og wrote

Reply to comment by spiffypanda in Question For You SEPTA Bus Riding People by wyueprouqi

Amusingly enough, the signage I have seen was at a bus shelter on one of those LED billboards and it said "Your commute is about to get easier." Someone oughta launch a campaign and post a couple hundred fliers and actual information for people who use the bus network. Maybe something like "Your commute is about to get easier worse."

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