13 thoughts on “Damn those engineers and scientists and teachers . . . .”
He actually claimed people would walk through a door to get into the country. He said this more than once. HE WANTS OUR BORDER CROSSING TO BE A LITERAL DOOR.
Road acess to build the wall wouldn't be a problem, since you're going to need a road on either side of the entire wall right of way for maintenance and security patrols after it's complete.
Maintenance? Yep, and plenty of it, because all those security cameras are going to wear out quickly in the desert sun. Plus there are going to have to be some very elaborate structures where the wall crosses rivers. They're dry most of the time, but not in spring.
We'l have to put up at least some guard towers and staff them, and build barracks for the guards, with potable water, sewage treatment and resupply.
Well, there probably wouldn't be much political influence on a job like this, haw haw. Just the goobernors of CA, NM, AZ and La Republica de Tejas, plus doG knows how many county board of supervisors, municipal governments and not-on-my-land property holders/long-time opponents of eminent domain. Trump might persuade/bully Congress to set aside NEPA (like Cong Duncan Hunter did for the current border fence), but the locals won't be so easy to persuade.
Galveston used to be the biggest port in Tejas until the great hurricane of 1900. Then everybody decided to move to Houston and Voilà! build the Houston Ship Channel. Baton Rouge would approve of a similar strategy, you'd imagine. The two historic and charming parts of NOLA (the Garden District and French Quarter) are on land high enough not to be flooded, even in Katrina.
Hydrologically, yes. Here's a nice (old) article by John MacPhee, a terrific environmental writer, on the history of efforts to keep the inevitable from happening.
Great article, thanks for posting the link. I had read and enjoyed McPhee's "Basin and Range" and "In Suspect Terrain" years earlier but had not seen this piece.
He actually claimed people would walk through a door to get into the country. He said this more than once. HE WANTS OUR BORDER CROSSING TO BE A LITERAL DOOR.
When Jesus closes a door, he opens a window. In the wall. Or so I've heard.
Road acess to build the wall wouldn't be a problem, since you're going to need a road on either side of the entire wall right of way for maintenance and security patrols after it's complete.
Maintenance? Yep, and plenty of it, because all those security cameras are going to wear out quickly in the desert sun. Plus there are going to have to be some very elaborate structures where the wall crosses rivers. They're dry most of the time, but not in spring.
We'l have to put up at least some guard towers and staff them, and build barracks for the guards, with potable water, sewage treatment and resupply.
I could go on and on….
Out the door, and innuendo…
I used to build roads, and I wouldn't touch that one. At some point, they're gonna balk at all the necessary change orders.
Just buttoning up the SF 330 right now. It'll be full employment forever at the Corps of ("Katrina-wasn't-our-fault!") Engineers.
Well, there probably wouldn't be much political influence on a job like this, haw haw. Just the goobernors of CA, NM, AZ and La Republica de Tejas, plus doG knows how many county board of supervisors, municipal governments and not-on-my-land property holders/long-time opponents of eminent domain. Trump might persuade/bully Congress to set aside NEPA (like Cong Duncan Hunter did for the current border fence), but the locals won't be so easy to persuade.
Galveston used to be the biggest port in Tejas until the great hurricane of 1900. Then everybody decided to move to Houston and Voilà! build the Houston Ship Channel. Baton Rouge would approve of a similar strategy, you'd imagine. The two historic and charming parts of NOLA (the Garden District and French Quarter) are on land high enough not to be flooded, even in Katrina.
Having just finished watching American Horror Story: Coven, I'd definitely GTFO of NOLA
Well armed not-on-my-land property owners!!
Hydrologically, yes. Here's a nice (old) article by John MacPhee, a terrific environmental writer, on the history of efforts to keep the inevitable from happening.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atch…
Great article, thanks for posting the link. I had read and enjoyed McPhee's "Basin and Range" and "In Suspect Terrain" years earlier but had not seen this piece.
The Survival of the Bark Canoe is great fun too.