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tulipsandroses

(6,660 posts) Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:37 PM Jan 13

In 2016-2017, trump & the GOP had a different reaction when hydrants ran dry during Tenn wildfire

Firefighters raced to Gatlinburg, only to find some hydrants were running dry
Don JacobsUSA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2017/02/17/firefighters-raced-gatlinburg-only-find-there-no-water/97633102/#

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Bill to allow more federal aid for Gatlinburg advances

A bill needed for federal disaster officials to help pay for some of the clean up efforts following the devastating wildfires in the Gatlinburg area passed unanimously out of a Senate committee Tuesday morning

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/bill-to-allow-more-federal-aid-for-gatlinburg-advances/51-420549569

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In 2016-2017, trump & the GOP had a different reaction when hydrants ran dry during Tenn wildfire (Original Post) tulipsandroses Jan 13 OP

A lot of the replies are actually justifying why Trump should be an asshole to California In It to Win It Jan 13 #1

Here's the things about those hydrants... RainCaster Jan 14 #2

That's what happens when you try to fight a conflagration with municipal water infrastructure. SeattleVet Jan 14 #3

Let's not talk about how Climate Change has caused these fatal weather patterns! RainCaster Jan 14 #6

Take a shower BidenRocks Jan 14 #4

Truth doesn't matter to these folks tulipsandroses Jan 14 #5

In It to Win It

(9,964 posts)

1. A lot of the replies are actually justifying why Trump should be an asshole to California

Reply to tulipsandroses (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:43 PM

Jan 13

RainCaster

(11,951 posts)

2. Here's the things about those hydrants...

Reply to tulipsandroses (Original post)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 01:39 AM

Jan 14

No water system in any city is designed to provide 100% flow to all hydrants simultaneously.

Try this:
Turn on every faucet, bathtub, shower etc. in your house. Notice how the water coming from that first faucet isn't flowing so fast after turning on the others? That's what happened in LA on a huge scale.

SeattleVet

(5,628 posts)

3. That's what happens when you try to fight a conflagration with municipal water infrastructure.

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 02:14 AM

Jan 14

Add in 100MPH winds blowing baseball-sized chunks of burning embers and there's no way to keep up with it. These systems were not made to handle anything even approaching a fraction of what's happening.

Reich-wing assholes can bite me - how about you fucking idiots try to actually handle the ongoing crisis and stop trying to place political blame and spreading conspiracy theories. I haven't seen a single one of those assholes actually *DO* anything to help - just misplace blame.

RainCaster

(11,951 posts)

6. Let's not talk about how Climate Change has caused these fatal weather patterns!

Reply to SeattleVet (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 11:43 AM

Jan 14

Do you know who believes in Climate Change?

Insurance Companies

BidenRocks

(1,022 posts)

4. Take a shower

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 02:39 AM

Jan 14

Have someone flush. Scream!
The cold was overtaxed for a minute. Same principal.
The showers do have flow in the real world.

tulipsandroses

(6,660 posts)

5. Truth doesn't matter to these folks

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 07:57 AM

Jan 14

Like Giuliani said, “Truth isn’t truth”
Kelly Ann Conway” There are alternative facts”

None of us are surprised that they would say one thing for a red state in a similar situation and something completely different for a blue state.
Hypocrites!

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