37 mph wind topples Trump's wall 15

[BUGGAR]

What more can I say!

 

[JAE]

The concrete had not yet cured.

 

[hokie66]

Not only had it not cured, it had not hardened. I suppose some, like some of the media, will blame Trump for the contractor's lack of bracing.

 

[JohnRBaker]

And if that wasn't bad enough, they have to leave open the 'flood gates' during the summer flash flood season.

(Caption from the article below) This photo from Aug. 13 shows a gate in bollard-style fencing on John Ladd's ranch along the U.S.-Mexico border. The gates remain open during the summer, with strands of barbed wire to prevent cattle from crossing the border. (Ariana Brocious/Courtesy Arizona Public Media)

In fact, in some places, the flash floods are so severe that they have to leave whole sections of the fence open with only a couple of stands of barbed-wire 'blocking' the gaps.

(Caption from the article below) Construction of the border wall outside Douglas, Ariz. Many gaps indicate where washes and other construction challenges appear along the border. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)

Trump’s border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...p-table-main_wallgates-810pm:homepage/story-a

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[msquared48]

Was Trump talking near the wall when it collapsed?

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[Artisi]

Such a well thoughtout plan design, seems the design team must have been asleep on the job.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.)

 

[dik]

It didn't fall down... fake news... it was purposely laterally and rotationally displaced.

Dik

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

would love to see if his hair stays on his head in those winds.

BTW I am Scottish we thought he was a complete and utter tosser years before he became president due to him raping the countryside for golf courses. So per say its nothing to do with him being the president or the USA when the scots turn out and yell abuse at him. Its just we have known for the last 15-20 years he is a complete an utter arse.

 

[dik]

The reason he doesn't like wind farms... they screwed up his golf course.

Dik

 

[JohnRBaker]

No, the wind farm did NOT screw-up his golf course. Rather, Trump has complained that the appearance of, as he calls them, 'windmills', ruined the view from his golf course and thus reduced the market value of the property. The fact that his Scottish golf courses have never actually turned a profit played NO role whatsoever, EH?

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[dik]

They screwed it up visually...

dik

 

[JohnRBaker]

And this impacts the quality of play how? Besides, the 11 turbines are located offshore from the harbor at Aberdeen, which is nearly 10 miles South of Trump's Scottish golf course at Menie. Granted, these wind turbines are some of the largest in the world (over 500 ft dia), but they are still more than nine miles from the golf course.

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[BrianPetersen]

Facts have no place in this argument!

 

[Spartan5]

You folks really don’t know brilliance when you see it, do you? For shame!

We’ll have an economy based on wind. I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody. I know it’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous — if you’re into this — tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything — right? So they make these things and then they put them up.

 

[hokie66]

Brilliance has nothing to do with it. What "you folks" don't understand is hyperbole.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Is THAT what it's called

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[3DDave]

From a WaPo report that he's obligated to pay $290,000/£225,000 to Scotland for his legal loss:

President Trump has a long-standing disdain for wind power that has carried over into his political speeches. Trump has said windmills cause cancer, kill birds and prevent people from watching television when the wind is not blowing.

The 11-turbine wind farm in Aberdeen Bay began operating last summer and is clearly visible from the fairways and greens of the Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, outside the northeastern city of Aberdeen.

During the planning process for the wind farm, the Trump Organization sued the Scottish government to block it.

The company has recently admitted the resort was never developed along Trump’s original plans because of the global recession in 2008 and the collapse in oil prices in 2014.

What we do know is that the over 1000 foot long tunnel that perhaps Mexicans (more likely Colombians) did pay for was not blown over by wind.

 

[IRstuff]

Didn't Joaquin Guzman use a tunnel to escape from jail? Supposedly, it's all pretty sophisticated, using theodolites to survey and maintain direction and straightness of the tunnels.

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[jhardy1]

If Trump is worried about what wind turbines will do to the value of his Scottish golf course, I'm guessing he doesn't own any near the Mexico-USA border - like the Fort Brown Memorial Golf Course in Texas?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...no-chance-stuck-behind-border-wall/681415001/

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[hokie66]

That course was closed in 2015, after they started building the fence in 2009. Not Trump's wall in that case.