Ooh. I know this one. Parts of NYC still use a steam heating system that was first designed in the late 1800's:
The New York City steam system includes Con Edison's Steam Operations, a piped steam system which provides steam to large parts of Manhattan. Other smaller systems provide steam to New York University and Columbia University, and many individual buildings in New York City also have their own steam systems. The steam is used to heat and cool buildings and for cleaning and disinfecting. It is the largest such system in the world and has been in operation since 1882.
That's just from the ruins of Old New York that New York is built on top of. The mutants down there are a steampunk society.
Some big cities originally heated their buildings by producing steam in one one centralized building and delivering it to large buildings thru pipes underground. The steam you see is from leaking pipes in this antiquated infrastructure. It's a very inefficient method if you ask me. Cities should offer these buildings low interest loans so they can update and be independent but they never take my advice
The tubes are there to raise minor steam leaks above street level so they don't hinder visibility.
Another interesting underground quirk we have is our pneumatic tube mail system.
There's a really good explanation here:
There’s a lot of things under the streets of New York, many of them cause heat. In order to cool them off the heat is vented outside and the warm moist air meets with the cool dry air and condensates into droplets that we see as steam. Same affect as breathing out on a cold day, you’re not creating steam but it looks that way because the warm moist air from your breath is condensing in the cool dry air.
You know how when rockets take off in Florida there's lots of smoke?
Yeah there's a tunnel that goes from Florida to New York that the smoke goes through to help heat up the New York streets. So anytime you see smoke in New York it's cause a rocket was recently shot up in Florida.
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Volcano under the city
Hundred plus year old infrastructure.
It's the ancient horrors beyond description, that are buried underneath the city, that are having indigestion.
Ah yes, the classic New York fog machine. Turns out it’s not for dramatic effect—just the city’s 19th-century steam system still doing its thing. Who needs modern infrastructure when you’ve got built-in Gotham vibes?
It's from the streamed clams they're having.
Denzel movie used the steam pipes
There's C.H.U.D.s down there.... https://youtu.be/BJckCjZ8Tdw
See it in Kansas City usually in the winter.
The dragon underneath is starting to stirr.
Something's happening in Zaun.
I immediately thought of this tune for some reason.
They might be smoke testing the system, looking for leaks! Smoke is pumped into water pipe infrastructure and leaks out of potential cracks or undisclosed/illegal sources (such as a company dumping into the sewer system without disclosing it to the city). They do this so they can locate and fix these sources so the water remains uncontaminated by groundwater seepage.
yo mama's farts
That's the breath of millions of poops.
That’s where they cook the Nuts4Nuts
