Trump's Border Wall Gates Need to Be Open for Months to Handle Flash Flooding

[Arkansas Granny]

The president’s claim that the wall on the Mexican border is “virtually impenetrable” has taken a lot of damage this week. Yesterday, CNN reported that a section of the barrier in California — which Trump claimed “is not something that can be really knocked down” — was knocked down by a gust of wind as its foundation settled.

Though the blustery embarrassment was localized and easily fixable, on Thursday, the Washington Post revealed a more structurally important concern:

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.

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.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/trumps-border-wall-needs-storm-gates-to-be-open-for-months.html

Just like everything else about Trump, his "big, beautiful wall" is nothing but a sham.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. The winds topple and the rain covers the scar.

The rump family of grifters on a death spiral.

[guillaumeb]

2. Recommended.

And this is NOT "The Onion".

Perhaps we need a big beautiful Trump jobs program. Hire unemployed coal miners, and farmers, to be gatekeepers.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Finnally this gets it day in the sun.

Have a Electrician friend who's family raises market Veggies near by and when that group of panels went up,he just laughed about how the flood gates have to be open during the Monsoon Season and for the Snow melt that effects the River levels in what is known as the Bend.