Shocking Development
July 21st, 2010 . by CaryI am shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Who would have thought that a rubber, inflatable dam in the middle of the desert would eventually fail? Catastrophically?
When the dam was installed over ten years ago, I remember thinking to myself “What kind of idiot would use a rubber tube in the desert to hold back water?” Then I remembered it was a government project. Common sense ain’t so common, is it?
The river filled as far as the eye could see within seconds, witnesses reported.
Warning sirens started wailing within minutes, and officers rushed along the riverbed to try to warn anyone of the approaching flood.
When seconds count, official response is only minutes away!
Chat ya later…
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There are people who should never be in charge of a project. Many of them can be found in the current administration. Obviously some of them did jobs there too.
Thank you, Cary, for keeping on. I’m going down my blogroll list and eliminating dead or lengthy-posting blogs. My eyes were opened. I killed six blogs just in the past ten minutes. That means six Conservative voices abandoned their convictions and their outlets for sanity. By choice or by hardship.
We need to fight, sir. And I am SO glad that you are still HERE.
BZ
An inflatable dam… Who’d a thunk it?? ?? ??
ablur – the overall pattern of uselessness seems to be running towards less and less useful as time continues to march ever onward!
BZ, I don’t get around to other blogs as much as I want/used/need to, but yours is one that I try to check on at least once a week. Six voices gone? Apathy or worn down? We may never know.
Well, Fred, they “thunked” it was a good idea at the time! The company that made them said it was the first time the dams would be used full time, in such extreme weather conditions. Yeah, I’d trust that.
“In April 2009, Tempe officials said they intended to ignore a safety recommendation from the makers of Town Lake’s rubber dams because sufficient safeguards already were in place to prevent the dams from deflating.”
I wonder what those officials are saying today.
According to an article in the hardcopy of the paper today, mostly they are saying “It’s Bridgestone’s fault.”