Gordo
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Nobody is telling you how FUCKED New York City's infrastructure actually is right now.
Everyone is watching the flood footage. The cars underwater. The subway stations turned into swimming pools.
Nobody is talking about the fact that six inches of rain just paralyzed a global city.
Not a hurricane. Not a once-in-a-century storm. Six inches. In a few hours. And the Long Island Expressway shut down in both directions. The F train suspended. Flash flood warnings across every borough.
By rain.
→ Cost of fixing this: deferred for decades
→ Cost of not fixing it: the entire city grinds to a halt
→ That is not a weather problem. That is a maintenance problem.
NYC's catch-basin cleaning fleet was 63% out of service during prior storms. By end of 2023 it was 77% out of service. The city had 19 functional trucks for five boroughs.
Nineteen trucks. For eight million people.
💀 Here's what nobody is explaining to you:
This doesn't just change THIS storm. This changes ALL storms. Forever.
→ NYC has 7,400 miles of combined storm and sewer pipes that back up the moment rainfall exceeds capacity
→ Many of those pipes are over 100 years old — built before cars existed, let alone SUVs and modern runoff volumes
→ Fewer than half of the city's 964 priority catch basins were inspected before recent storms hit
→ This exact same thing happened in 2023. And 2025. Same expressway. Same subway lines. Same excuses.
→ The city knows which drains are clogged. They have a data-driven priority list.
→ They just don't have the trucks to clean them.
→ So every time it rains hard, the same streets flood, the same trains stop, the same headlines run.
→ And then nothing changes until the next storm proves it again.
The source tweet said it directly: "Six inches of rain shouldn't do this to a major city, but clogged drains and years of deferred maintenance will."
That's not a weather forecast. That's a confession.
New York spent decades deferring the maintenance bill. May 21, 2026 is what the invoice looks like.
Bookmark this. You're watching the biggest infrastructure failure since the last time it rained.
I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨
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@news4buffalo Yeah…nothing to see here. Don’t want anymore shutdowns. Heaven forbid. BUT let’s not try to shut down the downfall of civilization (AI)
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No surprise at all!
Donald Trump has always stood out — bold, determined, and impossible to ignore. Some call him a game-changer, others see him as a global influence.
Now it’s your turn
Do you believe he’s still making a big impact today?
1: YES
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Don’t scroll past — drop your answer and share your thoughts below

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@LucyMelchert @NBCNews Nothing false tho. It’s called free speech. You ever hear Fox?!?
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@NBCNews Now is the time to go after the sponsors.
For 11 years people like Jimmy have been calling Republicans names and saying horrible things. 11 years of this BS.
People getting killed is the result of it.
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@Geologistm @NBCNews And someone in power gutted stuff like the CDC so they can’t send out warnings. 🤔
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@cturnbull1968 Why would he do that? He’s trying to rake from greedy corporations who pay millions dollar bonuses on that backs of those workers struggling. Are you a bit or something?
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If he can tax the second homes of millionaires, that are worth $5M or more, that means it’s only a matter of time before he goes after the second homes of average, hard working, everyday Americans that are barely making it.
Diabolical.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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@Ni4Ni2025 @CBSNews The only way you are against this is if you want elections to be rigged. Like you said everything else needs an ID
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@FreebushJo52077 @CBSNews News can’t say that if it’s not confirmed. .
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@CBSNews How come you left out the part he is an illegal immigrant?
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@jared_shult Watch Religulous by Bill Maher. We would have come up with thou shall not kill on our own. No helps from fiction.
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