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RainCaster

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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.

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