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Subject: Re: Remember That Empty Reservoir in L.A.?
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On 2025-01-19 19:09:09 +0000, moviePig said:
> On 1/19/2025 1:31 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2025 at 10:29:20 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:25:30 -0800, suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>> On 1/18/2025 8:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> Well, it's still empty and the Santa Anas are expected to kick up again 
>>>>> next week.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bad enough that it was empty the first time around but they've had two 
>>>>> weeks to fill it and not one drop has been sent up there in that time.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The three million gallons LAFD had to work with before the hydrants ran 
>>>>> dry lasted them 17 hours. If they'd had the 117 million gallons in that
>>>>> reservoir available, a little quick math indicates it would have lasted 
>>>>> 663 hours before running out. That's 28 days.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Oh, and have I mentioned that we only have half the fire department we 
>>>>> need? The National Fire Institute, which sets standards for municipal 
>>>>> fire departments nationwide, says you need 1.8 firefighters for every 
>>>>> 1000 residents. Los Angeles has 0.9. Exactly half of what a city this 
>>>>> size needs. We're also 62 fire stations short of what is recommended. 
>>>>> Sixty-fucking-two. But never fear! We've met and *exceeded* our quota 
>>>>> of DEI executives, so that's reassuring.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I swear to god, these 'progressive' Democrats in charge of the place 
>>>>> are actively trying to destroy the city. I mean, if it was your goal to 
>>>>> destroy Los Angeles, what would you do differently?
>>>> 
>>>> I thought it was under repair? Maybe they're not done yet and ready to
>>>> fill it.
>>> 
>>> Just looked up an article over on the web and got the following quote:
>>> 
>>> "Officials said that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed since
>>> about February for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117-million-gallon
>>> water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades for nearly a
>>> year. "
>>> 
>>> So the reservoir was still undergoing repair long before the  Santa
>>> Ana winds started up.
>> 
>> The *cover* was under repair, not the reservoir. It could still have been
>> filled with water as fire season approached. The only thing the cover 
>> does is keep things like twigs and bird poop from getting into the 
>> water, making it unsafe to drink. It could still be used to put out 
>> fires.
> 
> If the basin needed maintenance too, maybe doing both made sense.

Since when does a government or city council *ever* do anything that 
actually makes sense?! They'd rather just keep wasting the tax-payer's 
money on silliness and duplication.

Around here we've had roads that have been re-surfaced (unnecessarily 
so), only to be dug up again a few weeks later for some other needed 
repair / "improvement". The semi-official name for Auckland city is 
"the city of sails", one of the many unofficial names is "the city of 
cones" thanks to all the roadworks always going on.   :-\