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We talk about our epic move from San Francisco to the Hudson Valley this week and about cultural curation as a job. We also discuss the phenomenon of How Long Gone and wonder if we might be the Ted Kaczynski of podcasting.
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I haven't gotten that far through the episode, but needed to comment here. You have one piece of the water puzzle, which is the sump pump. There are two more pieces: the generator, and the dehumidifier. Inevitably, failures cascade, and the same thing that floods your basement also cuts the power and turns off the sump pump. So you need a generator; Honda makes the standard one. You have to run it once a week for 15 minutes to keep it in good order, and fill it with 87 octane gas as needed. The final thing you need is a bunch of dehumidifiers, 1-2 per floor. Otherwise, things start to rot from the overall humidity without their needing to fall into water. So, a house in the Hudson River Valley may actually consume as much electricity as a house in Scottsdale, AZ with air-conditioning full blast. (I think that the population shift out of Arizona once it starts hitting 130 degrees at noonday will be the biggest ad-hoc migration since the Dust Bowl.)
Harlem USA here. Welcome to New York y’all!