Here It Rains Again...

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Summer Solstice 2009: Rain Rage(?)

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The New York Times -- Friday, June 19, 2009:

"We may be years away from a true understanding of the psychological effects of the rain that has fallen for 15 of the first 19 days of June... But for many New Yorkers, the drops on the forehead every day — Every! Single! Day! — have clearly taken the toll imagined by de Marsiliis. Routine, stipulated annoyance at inclement weather has become something darker.

Rain rage."

Update: Rain has fallen 16 of the first 20 days of June. Yes, Saturday(!), June 20 was a real wet one.

Rewind: A year ago.

BQE

The Brooklyn Paper -- June 19, 2009: "The Bloomberg Administration officially issued a long-awaited call this week for engineers to minimize the pollution and unsightliness of the one-mile trench of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that ripped Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens from the Columbia Street Waterfront District and Red Hook 50 years ago."

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Meanwhile, in Albany... Frontpage of today's NYTimes: "Two dissident Democrats, who had been secretly strategizing with Republicans for weeks, bucked their party’s leaders and joined with 30 Republican senators to form what they said would be a bipartisan power-sharing deal. But the arrangement effectively re-establishes Republican control."

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