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Trump's Border Wall Falls Over in High Wind
- Thread starter Syriel
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Anything that tall, in uncured concrete, should have wind resistant bracing at minimum. Sounds about right for Trump level engineering.
Clearly, you made our skulls too thick when you designed us. Can't you just stop his heart instead?
So the FENCE was saved from falling onto the road (which is in terrible condition - a fence falling on it would probably been an improvement).
No money left for braces after Trump, his family, GOP members, and then the construction company skimmed money off the top. I am sure like 5% of the money actually went to the wall.
While on the face this is definitely not a fault in the design of the wall (which is garbage anyway), it does show that the engineering/construction crews being used for the construction are ignoring standards put in place for projects of this magnitude where something like this has the opportunity to happen. Time for an OSHA visit, imo.
Don't like his dumb wall, but it's not to surprising considering the concrete reenforcements had not dried yet.
I could swear that there was supposed to be a moat with alligators and snakes in it, too.
:V
WaPo: Trump's border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months
WaPo: Trump's border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months
NACO, Ariz. — President Trump's border wall likely will require the installation of hundreds of storm gates to prevent flash floods from undermining or knocking it over, gates that must be left open for months every summer during "monsoon season" in the desert, according to U.S. border officials, agents and engineers familiar with the plans.
The open, unmanned gates in remote areas already have allowed for the easy entry of smugglers and migrants into the United States.
At locations along the U.S. southern border where such gates already are in operation, Border Patrol agents must manually raise them every year before the arrival of the summer thunderstorms that convert riverbeds into raging torrents that carry massive amounts of water and debris, including sediment, rocks, tree limbs and vegetation. Trump's wall, which features 30-foot metal bollards spaced four inches apart, effectively acts as a sewer grate that traps the debris; when clogged, the barriers cannot withstand the power of the runoff.
Because the gates typically are located in isolated areas that lack electricity, they cannot be operated from afar. That requires the Border Patrol to leave the gates open for months, increasing the need for U.S. agents to monitor the sites because smugglers and other border-crossers can enter through the large gaps and advance northward following stream channels and narrow canyons to avoid detection.
The flooding risks are one of the biggest engineering challenges to the president's vision of a linear man-made structure spanning hundreds of miles of desert, canyons and mountains. But the Trump administration has said little about how it plans to manage the hydrology of the border region.
It's almost as if none of this was actually thought through and the whole border wall idea is a racist slogan that Trump never thought in reality he'd have to deliver 🤔
