In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, May 2, 2022 8:32 AM

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You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.

After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.

I wondered what was so confusing to you, so I watched the vid. I still wonder. What did you think was the purpose of water towers?

BRENDA

Monday, May 2, 2022 9:02 AM

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I remember the sun.

It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?

Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!

I do not want to forget!

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.

Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!

Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

I am sure that it will make an appearance in your area soon. Or if you have plane fare.

BUT I WANT IT NOOOOOOWWWWWWW!

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there will be sun.

SIGNYM

Monday, May 2, 2022 11:32 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol wow...

I don't have any sort of filter. Wonder what would have happened to my already sketch water heater that probably should be replaced sooner than later.

You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.

After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

Thanks for the vid. When I was a kid I always thought they looked like giant mosquitoes sucking water out of the ground.

One day, as I was driving down the 605 fwy next to the San Gabriel River I started, REALLY started, to look at the high tension transmission lines along the river... thinking "These lines probably come from AES and DWP Haynes and those lines that join up probably come from El Segundo generating station... and all of that water infrastructure, the pumps all busy purifying wastewater to better-than drinking water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-bam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SECOND

Monday, May 2, 2022 5:42 PM

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. . . water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-dam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.

Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, one of the biggest dams in the country blew apart, releasing a wall of water 20 stories high. Ten thousand people lived downstream. Flood in the Desert tells the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster, which not only destroyed hundreds of lives and millions of dollars’ worth of property; it also washed away the reputation of William Mulholland, the father of modern Los Angeles, and jeopardized larger plans to transform the West. A self-taught engineer, the 72-year-old Mulholland had launched the city’s remarkable growth by building both an aqueduct to pipe water 233 miles from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the St. Francis Dam, to hold a full year’s supply of water for Los Angeles. Now Mulholland was promoting an immense new project: the Hoover Dam. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam was a colossal engineering and human disaster that might have slowed the national project to tame the West. But within days a concerted effort was underway to erase the dam’s failure from popular memory.

Premieres May 3, 2022
Flood in the Desert
They paid the ultimate price for water
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert/

Flood in the Desert: Chapter 1
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-chap
ter-1/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 2, 2022 6:54 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Thanks for the vid. When I was a kid I always thought they looked like giant mosquitoes sucking water out of the ground.

That's a good one. I like that.

Me? At some point in my childhood my developing brain decided that water towers existed to be rain catchers that stored up all the rain as it fell and that's how we got our water. And if at any point I ever asked anybody, they knew about as much as I did and didn't give me any explanation for them that sounded any better. As the years went on and you grow up and just stop caring to figure out all the small ways the world around us works, I never really gave it all that much thought anymore.

I could see how living in California would make me think that there was no way this could possibly be what they were for, but I think the fact that somewhere in the back of my mind that memory of being a child still persisted until my eyes were open to the real purpose for them is a testament to just how much damn water we get here every year.

But seriously... We'd have to have like Noah's Ark level flooding going on all the time for my idea to have been reasonable.

It really was a "oh duh!" moment for me, and I was yet again impressed by the ingenuity that came before us that most of us take for granted every day.

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One day, as I was driving down the 605 fwy next to the San Gabriel River I started, REALLY started, to look at the high tension transmission lines along the river... thinking "These lines probably come from AES and DWP Haynes and those lines that join up probably come from El Segundo generating station... and all of that water infrastructure, the pumps all busy purifying wastewater to better-than drinking water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-bam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.

Well... We do have safeguards in place. It's not as if those power lines breaking and falling down next to a weeping pipe would end up with thousands of people being electrocuted while taking a shower...

Probably.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

SIGNYM

Monday, May 2, 2022 10:17 PM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
. . . water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-dam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.
Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, one of the biggest dams in the country blew apart, releasing a wall of water 20 stories high. Ten thousand people lived downstream. Flood in the Desert tells the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster, which not only destroyed hundreds of lives and millions of dollars’ worth of property; it also washed away the reputation of William Mulholland, the father of modern Los Angeles, and jeopardized larger plans to transform the West. A self-taught engineer, the 72-year-old Mulholland had launched the city’s remarkable growth by building both an aqueduct to pipe water 233 miles from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the St. Francis Dam, to hold a full year’s supply of water for Los Angeles. Now Mulholland was promoting an immense new project: the Hoover Dam. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam was a colossal engineering and human disaster that might have slowed the national project to tame the West. But within days a concerted effort was underway to erase the dam’s failure from popular memory.

Premieres May 3, 2022
Flood in the Desert
They paid the ultimate price for water
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert/

Flood in the Desert: Chapter 1
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-chap
ter-1/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

There is a ginormous earthen dam called the Santa Fe Dam near the San Gabriel River (by the 605 and 210) which has never been filled. Behind that giant wall of boulders and rocks is a "recreation center" with a little puddle of a lake, trees and benches ... obviously not the intended use of that construction. I can't find it NOW, it seems to have been scrubbed from the inet, but my dim memory of why that dam was never filled is because someone re-calculated the risk of dam failure due to earthquake. Either it was an engineering recalculation or a re-estimation of seismic risk. In any case, someone had an appropriate butt-puckering moment when they thought of tens of thousands or so people living downstream along the San Gabriel River. I can't imagine who would have even thought it was a good idea to begin with, but I'm glad they never put it into use.

There ARE, however, some very clever engineering projects along the San Gabriel River to get water underground. I had the great fortune to call up .. out of sheer curiosity, simply as an interested resident ... the agency that manages our underground water and was put in touch with (I found out later) the hydrology manager, and he spent 15 minutes while I peppered him with questions. I learned about the dams and impoundments along the river, the strata underlying our water basin, the importance of the Newport Inglewood fault, why it is so difficult to un-concretize the LA River now, why there are no recharge basins or dams further downstream on any of the major LA Rivers (LA River, San Gabriel River, Rio Hondo ... because the farther you get away from the mountains the smaller the deposited particles. Too far downstream it's all clay, and doesn't allow water to be absorbed). Also, why it's so difficult to reclaim stormwater (Running off roofs, roadways etc it's contaminated with trash, animal shit, motor oil, air pollution that has been accumulating for 10 months including tire dust and diesel soot), fertilizers and pesticides etc etc.

Sorry for geeking out but I find this endlessly fascinating and I'm just plain nosy, so I ask.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SIGNYM

Monday, May 2, 2022 10:41 PM

Oooooohhh... speaking of butt-puckering monents, SIX... what an accident! Thanks for the vid!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

BRENDA

Monday, May 2, 2022 11:19 PM

Out in the rain on a Monday morning.

BRENDA

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 3:12 AM

Back and the rain that was around stopped after I got off the bus. I don't walk the hills in my city anymore and I was at a thrift store that was at the bottom of one. Took the bus down too. The sun is out now.

BRENDA

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:15 PM

Out for my walk in a bit. Not dragging umbrella as it is dry out right now.

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