Hell_Is_Like_Newark

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

Many years ago, one of my tenants left behind a pile of cooking books. One was from Paul Prudhomme. I loved Cajun but being a Yankee living in NJ / New York City metro area, the restaurants that made it were few and expensive. My fat broke-ass couldn't afford often.

Needless to say.. I used that cook book for instruction and inspirations. I got really good at making seafood etouffee. Though my first two attempts were disasters.

One difference though... Prudhomme called for vegetable oil for the roux. I use what was classically use... real duck fat.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

The liquid line off my A/C condenser unit almost burns you if you touch it. Yeah.. my A/C is operating at max. 99 F outside with high humidity.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

@treeskier58 @NYSERDA @GovKathyHochul @LizKrueger @Doreen_M_Harris And a miracle happens. Champlain Express is at 100% rated capacity. 1250 MW.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

@treeskier58 @DudleyNYC @NYSERDA @GovKathyHochul @LizKrueger @Doreen_M_Harris NYISO Dashboard has embedded links to the data in CSV format. Don't bother trying to get to it with your phone. You need Edge or Firefox on a full PC screen.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

@rossiadam @VickieforNYC NY also had a fully completed plant in Long Island that was undergoing low power testing. It was decided to decommision and disassemble the plant instead.

https://t.co/nU3HVGqcIq

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

Out of curiosity I downloaded the data for the Champlain Express for July 1 and June 30. The data hits a pet peeve of mine because they list the power as MWH (energy) when it is clearly power MW.

Nothing delivered July 1. June 30th delivered power starting 3:00 PM ending at 11:00 PM. The average was 590 MW with a peak of 1,000 MW.

[Jamie LeFrak @Jamie_LeFrak]

So here is a question about Jersey City that seems simple and straightforward but it is applicable to a lot of legacy American cities and begs for a lengthy answer.

The fiscal crisis grinding down Jersey City is the exact same one constraining almost every post-industrial, Blue-model municipality in America: legacy retirement liability.

​Jersey City now spends nearly 30% of its annual budget on pensions, retirement benefits, and healthcare costs—with $100 million swallowed by pensions alone. Worse, the public-sector retirement wave began hitting around 2005 (a decade ahead of the private sector) and is on track to reach a terrifying crescendo in 2034. For Jersey City, this means the next eight years will be a grueling cycle of crushing austerity and asset seizure through rising real estate taxes.

​With that backdrop in place, let’s address the core question: Will an expanded tax base solve this? ​Yes—if that tax base consists of high-rent, market-rate housing or, better yet, commercial property, which generates massive revenue while demanding virtually no municipal services. Furthermore, high rise apartments rarely strain local school districts, as multi-family developments yield far fewer school-age children per capita than single-family homes.
​In a vacuum, these new ratables should flatten future tax growth.
​The reality, however, is that escalating retirement liabilities create constant upward pressure on spending. To balance the books, city leaders have continually deferred the vital capital infrastructure projects that catalyze future growth. When infrastructure stalls, economic development freezes. This arrested growth has left Gens M, Z and A deeply frustrated, wondering why urban life never seems to get better.
​Rather than leveling with younger generations and admitting that societal resources are being consumed by retired boomers, political leaders point to other convenient scapegoats. This mis-direction and buck passing has driven highly distortive political outcomes—most notably, "smash-and-grab" tax policies like payroll taxes and pied-à-terre penalties. While these gimmicks offer a brief revenue spike, they invariably backfire as the targeted taxpayers decamp, which causes profound, unrecoverable civic damage.
​Fortunately for Jersey City, its development potential should be massive enough to outrun the pension problem. If local homebuilders can rapidly deliver 20,000 new market-rate apartments (and we can!), we could grow combined tax revenue by $300 million to $400 million. That growth would provide the exact fiscal breathing room Jersey City needs to avoid the trap of distortive taxation.
​The outlook is bleaker across the Hudson. In New York City, the "smash-and-grab" phase has already begun. Worryingly, Jersey City's ultimate risk also remains tied to its neighbor: if NYC fails to enthusiastically welcome employers and emplyment, the productive engine of the entire region will quietly relocate, leaving a massive urban tragedy in its rearview mirror.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

@treeskier58 @NYSERDA @GovKathyHochul @LizKrueger @Doreen_M_Harris My mistake. Final construction costs was $6B

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

Temps (not heat index) hitting 100+ F for a week or more, every few years is not out ordinary. We had a period like this last year. Local power outages but no grid collapse. The facility is am working in today turned on it generator and dropped off the grid for a few hours to shed load.

If you want an example of 'extreme' look up the "Heat Wave of 1988". La Nina (cold equatorial Pacific water) induced blocking Bermuda highs that sat and baked the country for nearly 2 months.

The lake in VT my family has a house on became bathtub warm. A lot of window a/c units were sold that summer.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

May 28, 2026. Modesto, California.

Three people are stabbed to death in a single home.

A 54-year-old grandmother.
A 23-year-old mother.
A two-week-old baby boy.

Two weeks old. Read that again.

A baby who had not yet learned to focus his eyes.

Three generations. One knife. One afternoon.

The man arrested for it had been deported once before.

He came back. Illegally.

In June 2025, he was arrested for his FOURTH DUI.

ICE asked the county jail to hold him.

The county refused. State law forbids cooperation with ICE.

He walked out.

Eleven months later, a grandmother, a mother, and a two-week-old infant were dead on the floor of their own home.

They had him.

They had him on a fourth drunk-driving arrest.

They let him go because the state had decided, on principle, not to ask.

A two-week-old child paid for that principle with his entire life.

He should be alive.
His mother should be alive.
His grandmother should be alive.

God bless every American who refuses to call this normal.

[Mistake not... @mnmcsofgp]

@bonchieredstate Whenever I'm traveling through Pennsylvania, and I have to stop for gas, I'm always looking over my shoulder, wondering if they might try to sell me quality furniture or a soft pretzel.

They brush a ton of melted butter on them, it's really bad for my diet.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

@treeskier58 @NYSERDA @GovKathyHochul @LizKrueger @Doreen_M_Harris To give you an idea of how bad it can get:

Vietnam is big into solar PV. There was an incident where the sub-synchronous oscillations (resonance) got so severe the vibrations tore a power plant generator off its gearbox.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

@treeskier58 @NYSERDA @GovKathyHochul @LizKrueger @Doreen_M_Harris Just did a spot check of NYISO on this mostly sunny day in NY, looking at what % solar and wind of the power sent to the grid in NY:

Solar: 1.35%
Wind: 4.9%

Fossil is 64%

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

Multiple VFD failures. My current job is working for a NY state agency. One of their facilities has had every VFD fail on their air handler units. They thought it was a manufacturer issue.

I told them to get a contractor to get testing equipment to datalog the power quality: voltage, power factor / reactive power, sine wave, etc. This isn't one of the facilities I am responsible for, so I don't know if they did or not. Far as I know, every drive could still be set at bypass, meaning every fan is running at full speed 24/7.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

@treeskier58 @NYSERDA @GovKathyHochul @LizKrueger @Doreen_M_Harris It's enough. Previous job site was having multiple failures due to harmonics. They ended up installing a transformer in front of the drive to act as a harmonic filter.

[Hell_Is_Like_Newark @HellisNewark]

@SRD1776 @EndWokeness With Jews in charge.. not where they are the ones that end up in the DSA run Gulag.

[Freiformation @freiformation]

Ich laufe nachts durch einen Stadtpark in Polen. Junge Frauen kommen mir entgegen, gekleidet in Mini-Röcken. Es ist bereits nach 22:00 Uhr. Es scheint, als wäre das die absolute Normalität. Ich komme gerade aus Deutschland und kann diese Normalität kaum begreifen.
Selbst ein Kind spielt mit dem Ball, während die Mama sich freut. Der Stadtpark ist sauber und sicher. Ich denke an ein paar Tage zurück in Deutschland. Was bitte haben wir aus Deutschland gemacht? Was bitte haben wir aus unserer Heimat gemacht?