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dryheat
09-19-2023, 10:10
The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California that was built between 1924 and 1926 to serve the city of Los Angeles's growing water needs. It failed catastrophically in 1928 due to a defective soil foundation and design flaws, unleashing a flood that claimed the lives of at least 431 people.[2][3] The collapse of the dam is considered to have been one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century, and remains the 3rd-greatest loss of life in California's history, exceeded only by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and the Great Flood of 1862.[4][5][6]

Why do I bring this up? Because it echos what is happening on a large scale today. Politicians who don't know what they are doing are directing large scale human engineering.
Mulholland was a smart engineer. He had doubts about the surrounding geology but he went along with the project. There were numerous warnings of cracks in the dam itself and the land that it was attached to wasn't firm (like a lot of CA hills). They literally stuffed mud and glue into the cracks and ignored what was happening. It blew out one night and wiped out everything downstream.
There is a flood taking place today, but it's people not water, but maybe as damaging. "It'll be OK" We just have to repeat the old saw- The Border is Broken (whatever the hell that means), and then go back to what we were doing.

Art
09-19-2023, 10:15
At least 8,000,000 people have walked across the border since Biden took office. That's greater than the population of New York City and more than the population of over half the states in the union. There is no way this country can absorb that amount of mostly unskilled people. If the border were closed as tight as a tick tomorrow the long term damage would still be catastrophic. Just ask the Mayors of New York City or Boston Mass. who are now reaping what they helped sow.

This is a deliberate plan by the left and part of the general assault on the police authority of this country.

Major Tom
09-20-2023, 07:15
Now they are bringing them thru Mexico on trains, like open air cattle cars. When will they be flown from their country of origin to inside the U.S.? By passing the border all together!

Art
09-20-2023, 07:22
I used to say that half the world would live here if they could get in. Right now the Arizona border is covered up with West Africans. With almost a year and a half of the Biden Adminstration left...you ain't seen nothin' yet.

dryheat
09-20-2023, 07:40
Now they are bringing them thru Mexico on trains, like open air cattle cars. When will they be flown from their country of origin to inside the U.S.? By passing the border all together!

I mentioned that some time ago. "It's not fair" that people in Uganda can't just stroll across the border and we will have to fly a percentage in.

Oyaji
09-21-2023, 08:57
Back the early to mid-60s the San Francisquito Canyon specifically, the St. Francis Dam ruins was a popular shooting area. Remember going out there numerous times while still in high school. This is located in what used to be called the Saugus/Newhall area of LA County. The area has since developed into the City of Santa Clarita.

dogtag
09-21-2023, 01:33
Biden has another year to let them pour in. As election time nears
the rush to get here will escalate as the fear of a Republican
President slamming shut the border will cause panic.
We'll probably have close to thirty million illegals here by that time.
Hopefully, a massive deportation scheme will take place, but it's
not going to solve the problem. The only thing that might work is
to make things very uncomfortable for them - stop housing and
feeding them. Those that can make themselves useful, Chinese
and other Asians can stay, but the useless ones should be strongly
encouraged to go home before they turn to crime.
As of now, residents of these invaded towns are slowly approaching
boiling point and might even start looking for their Pitchforks.
One things for sure though - it's going to get worse.