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visit-new-york · 3 months

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The Great Blizzard of 1888, Madison Avenue and 40th Street, New York City.

The Great Blizzard of 1888, a winter tempest that battered the Atlantic coast of the United States from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine in March 1888, left an indelible mark in history. Inflicting over $20 million in property damage in New York City alone and claiming the lives of more than 400 people, including about 100 sailors, the blizzard was a catastrophic event along the Eastern Seaboard.

Following a mild winter, a convergence of a western snowstorm and a southern warm front gave rise to one of the most severe winter storms in American history. The onslaught commenced on the night of Sunday, March 11, with New York City accumulating 10 inches (250 mm) of snow by Monday morning. The storm persisted, eventually enveloping the city in a 22-inch (550 mm) snow blanket, while other regions experienced staggering accumulations of 40 to 50 inches (1,000 to 1,250 mm). Relentless high winds, coupled with temperatures well below freezing, intensified the perilous conditions. New York witnessed winds averaging 40 miles (65 km) per hour, gusting up to 80 miles (130 km) per hour, resulting in the destruction of power and telegraph lines and colossal snowdrifts reaching heights of 50 feet (15 meters).

Despite the escalating weather, many New Yorkers unaccustomed to blizzard conditions attempted to navigate the city for work. As the situation deteriorated throughout Monday, workers found themselves stranded on the streets, trains, elevated transit cars, and at their workplaces. With closures affecting shops, government offices, courts, Wall Street businesses, and even the Brooklyn Bridge, people sought refuge in overflowing saloons, hotels, and prisons.

The profound impact of the blizzard led survivors to gather annually until 1969 to commemorate its anniversary. Recognizing the vulnerabilities exposed by the storm, officials implemented measures such as placing power and telegraph lines, as well as public transit, underground. The Great Blizzard of 1888 became a transformative event that reshaped urban planning and disaster preparedness in the years to come.

#new york #newyork #nyc #new-york #new york city #ny #urban #manhattan #city #usa #United States #buildings #travel #journey #outdoors #street #architecture #Great Blizzard #visit-new-york.tumblr.com

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cymlea · 3 months

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Embark on a journey through time with the harrowing tale of the Great Blizzard of 1888 an infamous winter tempest that swept across the Atlantic coast, leaving an indelible mark on history. With New York City bearing the brunt, this catastrophic event inflicted over $20 million in property damage and claimed the lives of more than 400 people, including around 100 sailors.

Triggered by the convergence of a western snowstorm and a southern warm front after a mild winter, the blizzard unleashed its fury on the night of Sunday, March 11. By Monday morning, New York City was already buried under 10 inches (250 mm) of snow, with the storm intensifying to eventually blanket the city in a staggering 22 inches (550 mm). Other regions faced even more colossal accumulations of 40 to 50 inches (1,000 to 1,250 mm). Relentless high winds, plummeting temperatures, and destructive gusts reaching up to 80 miles (130 km) per hour compounded the perilous conditions.

The storm brought the city to a standstill, with closures affecting everything from shops and government offices to Wall Street businesses and even the Brooklyn Bridge. Despite escalating weather conditions, many New Yorkers, unaccustomed to blizzard conditions, attempted to navigate the city for work, resulting in countless individuals stranded on streets, trains, elevated transit cars, and at their workplaces.

In the aftermath, survivors commemorated the storm's anniversary annually until 1969, acknowledging its profound impact. Officials, recognizing vulnerabilities exposed by the blizzard, implemented transformative measures such as placing power and telegraph lines, as well as public transit, underground. The Great Blizzard of 1888 became a pivotal moment that reshaped urban planning and disaster preparedness, leaving an enduring legacy that echoes through the annals of history.

#New York City #new york #newyork #New-York #nyc NY #Manhattan #urban #city #USA #United States #buildings #travel #journey #outdoors #street #architecture #Great Blizzard #https://cymlea.tumblr.com/

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coconi · 1 year

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I just finished Tulin's storyline and excuse me while I bawl about this game further cementing the fact that Revali made himself a Champion. He was no descendant of an ancient Sage nor did he have a loving family to train him (that we know of). There was no power destined to be his: he crafted his own version of wind control without any support or spiritual guidance and excelled at it and then he and the other Champions went into battle without the special helms, without a sacred tear/charm to further enhance his abilities, without the certainty of two rulers (and a sage from the future) with god-like powers that could back them up if things went awry. Because of this, the original Sages survived where the Champions did not.

Revali was doomed from the start and if he'd known he would've still honed his craft and piloted Medoh with his beak held high and I am in shambles about it

#totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #totk meta #don't mind me i'm having a normal one #and to be perfectly clear: this is not me downplaying tulin's achievements #I adore him and he worked his ass off and he /made/ himself worthy of the title of Sage and i wouldn't have it any differently #son boy son i would die for him #but by god do the champions (and revali in particular) hurt an extra amount in retrospective #totk may refuse to mention the champions by name (at least so far idk about the other regions)#but revali is so fucking present in the negative spaces he inhabits #revali's theme still plays at the flight range #when teba is introduced there is an emphasis on the strip of cloth attached to the great eagle bow #revali's landing is the first area of rito village that clears after the blizzard #the village's main spire is now named after medoh #and tulin looks far more honored to receive revali's bow (which is regarded as the very best) than he is about becoming a sage #it is thanks to revali's sacrifice that the village was granted the chance to thrive and defend itself #and that truth lives on no matter what

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nmzuka · 4 months

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Urth shattering battle between Blizzard and Diablo (pose based off a statue of Kong vs the V-Rex)

#primal rage #primal rage blizzard #primal rage diablo #zuka doodles #drawings #honestly really happy how this turned out ffff #the posing game out great #and it was really fun doing full colors heh

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namesareweird579 · 3 months

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So I was scrolling through tumblr one day and discovered at @ravewing 's fragariapathosis au, and it's so cool and me as a good oc owner am automatically legally required to horribly torture my oc's whenever I possibly can so here's some fanart

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genderfluid-druid · 4 months

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went out for a blizzard walk dressed for a single-digit windchill, when in fact it was just a very pleasant and mild 33°F. now sitting on the enclosed porch with my jacket off trying to bring my core temperature down from nuclear.

#so far this is the most polite blizzard I've ever been in #highest ambient temp it can get away with #snow is powdery and not accumulating more than an inch every few hours #there's no wind trying to murder my face #all in all. great walking conditions

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barbaracleboy · 2 months

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This was probably just a me thing...but when I first saw the Great Dragon flying through the sky in Etrian Odyssey 4, I thought it looked like the goofiest thing in the world. I mean, under normal circumstances it's not that weird-looking, just a big red dragon, but, like...

Look at it! It's not just me, right? This thing looks funny when it's flying like this! Barney-looking motherfucker, it's built like someone wanted to make Dragonite more badass but with the same proportions.

#etrian odyssey #etrian odyssey 4 #great dragon (EO)#side note but why's it called just the 'Great Dragon'?#the ice one got renamed 'Blizzard King' and the electric one got renamed 'Storm Emperor' so you'd think the fire one would be called #like #'Inferno Lord' or whatever #that's not me complaining for the record I just think this stupid dragon is funny in multiple ways

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cat-loving-elf · 17 days

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"The Fight" (part 2/2)

Abarant starts with a classic fireball

Scrumptious counters with an icicle

The Teal Mage places a fire wall

Lizzard's right now in a pickle

The opponent sees Lizzard's eyes bawl

The lizzer quickly summons an ice sickle

Quick counter, Abarant goes with flame crawl

Time for the Lizzard to use his big deal

As flames crawl up to him, he lets himself chill

And so, he casts the meta spell, great blizzard

Scrumptious the Lizzard, truly a great wizzard

But even the Roman Empire fell one day

And so The Great Lizzer Wizzer also may

Teal Abarant sees the blizzard, he thinks fast

He has a good idea, time for him to cast

His spell was or would have been "Time travel"

He goes back in time, what a marvel

As this spell only creates eternal loops

Resumes the earlier Fight of the two elite troops

Abarant replaced his earlier self with himself

When it again gets to the great blizzard

The Teal casts "Time travel", what a wizzard

The Fight is now looped, Abarant forever stuck

Nobody will win, nobody will loose, a tie, fuck

The hillside slowly will deteriorate

But Abarant saved lots of wizzers, no debate

#shit i love the beginning where i did the abab rhyme scheme #its kinda a poetic thing #cause you know #they are exchanging spells and rhymes!!#also i guess this might be the end of the scrumptious the lizzard wizzard series #unless ill write some more #but if this ends up to be the end #thank you!! to everyone who gave me sum notes during it!!#also i think everyone should appreciate that i used proper capitalization in these lines #actually stuffed these out to the max with fire #im spoiling yall fella wizzers and wizzer fyre lines enjoyers!!#wizard posting #wizardblr #we love casting spells #wizzardrous slam poetry #epic fyre wizzy rap #scrumptious the lizzard #we especially love casting great blizzard B))

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melien · 1 month

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#sims #ts3 #sims 3 #photoshoots #character verse #percy fontaine #percy fountain #(the last tag is for berry version - I just used a slightly different spelling for the character verse/vanilla percy's surname)#I was redoing the berry rainbowcy characters into vanilla ones to add them to my tree #I neglected percy a bit but I decided to take a slightly different direction with her (details still wip) and she turned out great #like she's more independent and rebellious I guess #she's still freya's mother but I'm going back and forth on her and lavi's relationship #amicable exes or lavi in a poly relationship with both her and a character verse version of blizzard? stay tuned #I guess it depends on the story direction which I'm currently trying to figure out #the latter is currently called beatrice btw but somehow I'm never 100% sold on her vanilla name I've gone through like 3 b names

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cannibalmutual · 2 months

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a story told in three parts

#personal #delete later #my face #it wasn’t that bad until a giant gust of wind made a mini blizzard on my fucking bare shoulders #i don’t look great here but to be fair. snow was almost immediately melting down my crack during this #and i think it’s funny. thus posting

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that-genshin-sure-can-impact · 1 year

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Insert clever title (2)

SAGAU | Imposter AU

Part 1

You’re pretty sure that if there was an award for the most braindead, incomprehensibly stupid plan ever, you’d earn at least third place, because what else could you possibly call sneaking into Albedo’s camp on Dragonspine with the intent of rifling through his correspondence.

The smart part of your brain (see: the negligibly small part of your brain) tells you that Albedo has a very sharp sword and knows how to use it, and also has magic rocks that obliterate monsters on the regular, and is probably ready and willing to turn you into a red splatter against the cave wall.

The rest of your brain tells you that you’ve got to know what the hell is going on, and clearly you can’t just go around asking people because somehow your face is notifying them that you are to be killed on sight, regardless of what region you’re in. You would know. You have done extensive research.

(You couldn’t even make it past Mondstadt’s front gates. Covering the lower half of your face with a scarf didn’t work in Liyue, and you figured that covering your entire face would just make you more suspicious. You nearly lost your head, literally, when you teleported directly into Inazuma City, and the people of Sumeru weren't happy to see you, either. Even the smaller villages and towns, like Springvale or Konda Village, had guards who knew to try to apprehend you, and it was only your decision to stay within very close proximity to the teleport waypoints that kept your body blessedly free of stab wounds.)

Ergo, Albedo’s camp, which has a grand population of one (1) guy who probably would have to leave at some point. You’re pretty much banking on the possibility that Albedo would have received a letter or something that might explain what’s going on, because something has to be tipping everyone off about you and your apparently-very-killable face, right?

You… are also banking on the likelihood that Albedo is actually still on Dragonspine instead of stationed down in Mondstadt, but if that turns out to not be the case, then no harm, no foul, you can just figure out another plan.

So your current plan is to sneak into his camp while he’s not there and steal the contents of his mailbox, because you’re getting desperate and this is the only thing that you can think of.

It’s probably not your only option. It’s probably not even your best option; but it’s the only one you can think of, so.

Yeah.

You’re doing this.

…

Or, at least, you would be doing this if you hadn’t forgotten one teeny-tiny issue: the route from the nearest teleport waypoint to Albedo’s camp is interrupted by a broken bridge and a hundred-foot drop down the cliffside. The broken bridge that requires a wind glider to get across. That broken bridge.

Yeah.

You are so fucking mad.

So now, you’re crouching by the broken end of the bridge, staring at the wide gap and trying to figure out how steep the cliffside is (very) and whether or not you can kind of scramble across to the other side (definitely not), because there are no other waypoints on Dragonspine that you could feasibly get to the camp from without freezing to death in the meantime (you’ve checked the game map).

Maybe the waypoint by the exit to Starglow Cavern…? But it’s so far away, and you’re pretty sure that the path from there to the camp runs right past a Ruin Grader. Or was it a Frostarm Lawachurl?

You’re so focused on the map and the broken bridge and the increasingly tempting decision to just give up and try to break into the Favonius Headquarters instead that you don’t hear the footsteps coming up from behind you, near-silent under the whistling of the wind.

“Well, well, what do we have here?”

Alarm bells go off in your head, accompanied by all of the curse words in your vocabulary.

You’d been so anxious about being spotted all day that, as you whirl around to face whoever had snuck up on you, you expect to see ash-blond hair and a face belonging to the worst in-game model in Genshin Impact. Or, if you’re really unlucky (and you’re starting to consider yourself to be so), a nun.

Instead, you’re greeted by Kaeya and his fucking indecipherable smile, and you have to wonder if this is the worst case scenario.

You think he’s trying to look unthreatening; both of his hands are empty and in sight, held up like he’s placating a skittish animal, and he’s left a respectable ten feet of distance between you. Until now, you hadn’t realized how much you missed being greeted with a smile instead of a sword, but you did, so much that Kaeya’s was almost enough to get you to drop your guard.

You’ve read his character story, though, so it just makes you wary.

“You’re quite a ways from the nearest camp,” Kaeya comments, amiable as ever. His eye twinkles like a false star. “Without winter gear, too. You wouldn’t want to freeze out here, would you?”

That’s a fucking threat.

‘Yeah, it’s time to leave,’ you decide, before remembering that you need to be touching a waypoint to teleport and Kaeya is blocking the fucking way. In fact— you realize with rising panic— you’ve trapped yourself on the edge of the broken bridge, unless you want to drop a hundred meters into Wyrmrest Valley.

You’d bet that Kaeya knows it, too. He doesn’t even look cold. Bastard. Your hands are stiff and painful despite being tucked into your jacket, your entire face stings bitterly, and even breathing feels like you’re inhaling glass shards. You can’t feel your ears and you’re too afraid to check.

How long have you been away from the waypoint? Five minutes? Ten? Maybe Kaeya doesn’t even plan on doing anything more. Maybe he’ll just block you off from the waypoint until you freeze to death.

Shit. Shit shit shit.

You’re just fucking staring at each other, now, Kaeya with his knowing smile and you wondering if you can, like, trip him, or something. You don’t know. He has a sword and ice powers while you can’t feel your hands or feet. That’s what you get for being an isekai protagonist, you guess.

Christ. You’re going to die here.

Then-

Kaeya shifts his weight like he’s about to close the gap between you, and your fight or flight instincts kick in— and since you can’t run anywhere, you find yourself clutching an icy rock that’s probably hurting you more than it could possibly hurt him, frost-stiff fingers coming alive with pain. You don’t think that there’s enough strength in your arms to do much damage with it. You bare your teeth and think that they might suffice, if you can stomach the taste of blood.

“Get the fuck away from me, Kaeya,” you bite out, relieved when it comes out like a threat instead of a desperate plea. You scramble to follow up, wildly casting around for anything that’ll give you some leverage in this confrontation that doesn’t involve your usual go-to of threatening to have an intimate night with his father. You think that if you spill his secrets he will impulsively separate your head from your shoulders, so that’s out. “I literally have no fucking clue what’s going on.”

Well… that wasn’t going to gain you any leverage, but maybe it’ll score you some pity points?

And—

Kaeya laughs.

The sound is so jarring, so anticlimactic, that irrational rage sweeps over you. You want to punch his teeth in for having the audacity to laugh at you and giving you emotional whiplash. Instead, you hunker down against the cold and wait for him to stop.

He does, after a few seconds, wiping a fake tear from his eye (at least, you assume it’s fake. You aren’t that funny). “I must admit, you aren’t quite what I was expecting,” he muses. “I wonder… just what have you done to anger the gods?”

A laugh scrapes its way, unbidden, from your throat. Your everything hurts, you’re literally freezing to death, and honestly? You’re exhausted.

“Shit, man. I’d sure like to know, too.”

(Part 2/?)

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(Just FYI this is probably the last time I’m tagging people in the post because that was a bitch to figure out even with so few of you)

#sagau #genshin impact #imposter au #genshin x reader #genshin sagau #mine #same as the first one I couldn’t figure out how to end it but it’s been sitting in the docs for a month now #heads up an interlude for part 1-2 is probably gonna drop soon that’ll explain some background but I already had the Dragonspine scene half #done so I figured I’d just post it first #hoping that not including the downtime between 1 and 2 won’t turn out to be a mistake #anyways you’re straight up not having a great time. living in the US has made me terrified of blizzard conditions

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mildmayfoxe · 8 months

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successfully went to maine (to a very cute little town!!) to figure out my bank situation (should be all good 👍) and then had a very nice seafood lunch feat gorg sea views

#also god dq blizzards & stopped at a nh state liquor store on the way home #got a whole box of premixed mojitos for FIFTEEN DOLLARS #photo record #food tag #i haven’t had clam strips in SOOOO long… great lunch. i love fish #we were in kittery if you’re curious. basically just went for bank & lunch but it was really cute!!#should go again & also check out portsmouth which is right across the bay

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tastytofusoup · 15 days

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Really wish I'd titled my WoW Classic posts 'Vanilla WoW' instead.

#'ah I love this place Cataclysm was great!' it's vanilla #Whole point is it's NOT fucking Cataclysm #The reason I used wow classic is to make it less confusing but nevermind #Could've gone for WoW Classic Era too but I think that's a stupid sounding name so no thanks #'but wow classic is doing Cataclysm too' I'm not responsible for blizzard's dumbfuck decisions #Cataclysm isn't classic. It's the definition of when classic wow ended by erasing the state of the original world and the old quests #I may go through renaming them all

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vixlenxe · 23 days

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