Rain Saturated Street Collapse in Baltimore
May 2, 2014
Watch the video, make sure you catch the last 30 seconds.
When crumbling infrastructure meets climate and weather extremes. Since Congress cares about neither one, look for more of this.
The heaviest rain has ended in the Northeast, but investigators and cleanup crews continue to deal with landslides in two separate states.
The largest of the two happened in Baltimore’s busy Charles Village neighborhood Wednesday, when a retaining wall buckled on 26th Street, sending cars and mud tumbling 75 feet onto CSX railroad tracks.
Neighbor Dana Moore watched it happen.
“It was there and then it wasn’t,” she told the Baltimore Sun.
No one was injured but homes were evacuated so investigators could assess the area’s stability. Structural engineers placed markers along the road to monitor conditions.
DOT and the Baltimore City Fire Department continued to remove more vehicles and debris Thursday.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week 
May 2, 2014 at 6:37 am
Scary footage, rains are getting heavier and more damaging, engineering needs to be stronger to meet with modern times.
May 2, 2014 at 6:39 am
Landslides are part of the picture of future and ultimately now climate change. The Northeast is receiving about 75% more extreme rainfalls than in the past.
May 2, 2014 at 12:59 pm
Dear citizens we must cut corporate taxes even further and put off infrastructure repairs on the back burners otherwise the job creators will abandon us.
/snark
May 2, 2014 at 1:26 pm
Laugh of the day. Thanks.
May 2, 2014 at 9:56 pm
Someone has to clean that mess up and adjudicate the insurance claims. Get out your shovels and pencils folks; there’s a new ‘job creator’ on the horizon.
May 2, 2014 at 3:04 pm
I think it is NOT about congress (only). It is about all of us.
Alex
May 2, 2014 at 6:38 pm
Half the people in Baltimore dream about owning their own homes.
The other half dream about breaking in to them.
Rain in Baltimore caused by the global warming hoax!!!!!
LOL
Tooooo Funny!!!!!
May 2, 2014 at 6:54 pm
[Rain in Baltimore caused by the global warming hoax!!!!!
LOL
Tooooo Funny!!!!!]
Extreme storms have increased by 74%. Does this storm qualify as extreme?
May 2, 2014 at 9:07 pm
What so funny ?, the weather station for Baltimore shows a . 2 degree rise for each decade.
Temperature Trend, °C / Decade
Time Range: – 1980 – 2010
Baltimore/Blt-Washington Int’L 0.20
Washington 0.16
or are you another sceptic on measuring instruments ? more warming means more water vapour, means heavier rain. Not a laughing matter at all.
Take Afghanistan
Temperature Trend, °C / Decade
Time Range: – 1960 -2000
Mazar-I-Shari 0.22
Herat 0.29
Kabul Airport 0.40
Warmer air = more moisture
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/02/world/asia/afghanistan-landslide/
May 2, 2014 at 9:13 pm
What’s not funny is the level of your mental malfunctioning. You need help—maybe mfellion can get his mental health professional to see you.
May 3, 2014 at 3:00 am
Baltimore, meet Badakhshan:
http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2014/05/03/badakhshan-landslide-1/
Ah, so. Oso, redux?
May 3, 2014 at 8:21 am
[…] happens. But as this week’s retaining wall collapse in Baltimore shows, stuff happens a lot more frequently when you push it with weather […]
May 4, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Toppled onto the CSX railroad tracks. Isn’t that the RR that’s shipping tar sands? Don’t know if this is good news or bad 😛
May 5, 2014 at 8:00 am
Yeah, CSX ships a lot of oil, maybe more Bakken than tar sands, though, after picking it up from BNSF and CP Rail. CSX is also a big carrier of coal, along with the only other major railroad left in the east, Norfolk Southern, which railroad also transports Bakken and tar sands “oil”. Shipping oil has always been a big part of the railroad business, going back to John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.
This collapse won’t slow them down much—not as much as the tunnel fire in Baltimore did a few years back (and we will pay for it through a rise in shipping rates rather than the shareholders taking a hit on dividends—-who knows, maybe they have insurance?)
May 5, 2014 at 9:03 am
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