Category: weather

one of Roberts Moses roads

east river view from FDR
This is a color photograph made on a grey day. Looking across the East River from the FDR.

Moses shared the prejudices of his class and time, and poor neighborhoods were not where he spent political capital.
Writer Jane Jacobs (The Death and Life of Great American Cities) fought to save neighborhoods. SoHo and the Village were not cleared but they didn’t stay working-class. Moses displaced the poor with a bulldozer. The market, in the neighborhoods he was stopped from touching, displaced the poor with outrageously expensive real estate.
Moses poured concrete when American cities were desperate for parks, bridges, and roads, and he treated the people in the way as a cost of getting the job done. The roads he finished still carry traffic.
The neighborhoods Jacobs helped preserve are a reason lower Manhattan is a place worth caring about.–Grok

stalled thunderstorm

Its been a dry spring in Virginia. Limited April showers have resulted in challenging conditions for plants. I’ve been drip irrigating juveniles in CHO. In the Tidewater there is a group of a few hundred adolescent trees I look after.Rain began falling at 1430 hours

Between 1430 and 1830 six inches of rain came down.

It’s pretty flat in Slabtown. takes awhile to soak in sheet flow in the yard

all things wet and wonderful

 

Grok vs. Gemini

My daughter is in Nassau, the National Hurricane Center is working with partial staff secondary to the government shutdown. I thought I’d inquire of Gemini (Google AI) what threat Hurricane Melissa posed to the Bahamas. When I was posing the question yesterday morning, Melissa had already made a mess of Jamaica and was chewing on Cuba. Gemini’s answer is below:

Gemini’s answer, as they say, double check… So, I asked Grok

Grok’s response.

Does Grok has ongoing training? Grok 1, Gemini 0