@MentORPHEUS Engineers design things and mechanics fix them. Though there is some overlap between the two, both use scientific principles to solve problems, so in a way you are a scientist.
So neither the L.A. City or County fire departments knew that the Palisades reservoir was empty. It was out of service because it needed a repair to the cover, which no one had gotten around to for nearly a year. It's connected to the drinking water supply, and the cover is to prevent contamination. But it didn't need to be emptied. It could have remained full for emergencies and simply disconnected from the city water supply. no one thought to do that. Utter incompetence.
@woodsmoke There is a good book on this subject by Steven Koonin, a physicist who is very knowledgeable about the models, called "Unsettled." The fraud by governmental and scientific institutions is astounding even to a skeptic like me.
@MentORPHEUS We'll learn more as additional details come out. I distinctly recall reading that power to fire pumps went out when power to a neighborhood went out, and Biden even said something to that effect. And system demand wouldn't have been overwhelming in the early stages. Maybe the fire department didn't arrive promptly. We do know a reservoir wasn't filled and repairs to it should be able to completed within a year. Someone could have made that happen if they had known it was important. I'm not convinced this system was well designed and maintained but gee, an unexpected event came along and burned Palisades and Malibu. There is no good reason for there not to be enough water or water pressure.
@SeasonedRP I may come across as "supporting/defending DEI" here but it's not the case. I believe in competence and meritocracy as much as the next Manosphere denizen. That said, I call out as disingenuous and probably playing into oligarch-placed distraction, the using of DEI as a convenient scapegoat and punching bag, when it obviously results in missing the actual facts of the situation at hand.
The competitive bidding process on fixing the reservoir cover is down to bureaucratic and market force delays and don't require DEI to explain them.
As for the water pressure issue, this has been addressed in detail by numerous agencies and officials. No pumping stations were without power. Those in areas subject to grid shutdown are equipped with backup generators for this exact scenario of grid shutdown in anticipation of or response to wildfire. The systems are built to supply water even at a maximum flow volume estimated at a local emergency. The problem here is that the system was never designed to supply millions of gallons per hour to ALL of the hydrants in an entire region, which is the situation that emerged with this wildfire. Pressure and volume ended up reduced to nil at the hydrants at the highest locations. These are engineering and fiscal limitations, not DEI ones. It's down to the cost and practicality of scaling the ENTIRE system of reservoirs, pumps, and water mains up enough that they can handle a 0.00001% exception to normal or emergency flow volume needs.
Read More@MentORPHEUS I read that fixing the reservoir would cost around 130k. Surely that could have been done within a year. If fixing it had been a priority, it would have been been fixed, but the DEI people running things were too stupid to know it should have been a priority. The oligarchs gave us DEI and things like fire and water departments with all female leadership teams, and the results speak for themselves. Incompetence all the way around. Fire pumps that couldn't operate because they were on the same power supply that was turned off in the areas burning? Just stupid people running things.
@Kloi Sounds like a good plan to me. I've trained for periods of time where I've done the big 3 but not at high volume and focused on assistance work usually at 8 reps and up. More of a bodybuilding than a strength routine. I started out training that way and have gone back to it from time to time.
@Typo-MAGAshiv Yes, I've been to South Dakota, Kansas, and North Dakota and bought licenses with no issues. Not sure about other places but I think the course is pretty standardized now.
@First-light When I did it ages ago, it was an all day course then you took a test. When they instituted the requirement, people born certain years and earlier didn't have to do it, and I missed it by two years I think. No field requirement, and test was pretty easy. Concealed carry on the other hand had a test at the range.
@SeasonedRP Kind of a Scooby-Doo Villain defense. "My Presidency would have worked perfectly if not for these darn KIDS!" I say Nixon WAS corrupt and authoritarian in many ways, but would rather agree to disagree than go to the mat over this topic.
For fun, here's a bit of immersion into the 1974 Zeitgeist. The movie The Exorcist is pretty tame by today's standards, but it was outlandish and shocking at the time. The Catholic Church went out of their way to condemn it, and theaters reported that ushers had to clean vomit out of the aisles between screenings. Here's a comedy record that I first heard on the Dr. Demento show circa 1980: Perfectly Clear- The Nixorcist.
