July 27, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Okay, so there’s a supposed video of Hurricane Hanna blowing down portions of Trump’s border wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvu_K-2S0Wo
I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but it was fun to watch.
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Thanks, Harold.
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No worries! It’s not as if critical infrastructure was damaged or anything…
1Thank you, Mother Nature.
2Mother Nature knows best!
3I don’t know if the video is real or not, but trump’s administration is so utterly corrupt that it would not be even slightly surprising that the wall is poorly designed and built because contractors are getting paid for high quality materials and using low quality instead and sharing the cost savings with trump and his cronies. What are the odds that Jared is deeply involved in selecting contractors and approving contracts and invoices? About 100%, I’d guess.
4Well, I just hope the Mexican government doesn’t have to pay twice for this. Oh, wait. . . .
The symbolism of the wall collapse and Trump’s election campaign is what I meant to say.
5I saw a report that this video is several months old and it was the Santa Ana winds that knocked it over. In any case, it’s a good metaphor for this presidency.
6The Great Wall of Trump lying flat on the ground, it’s monumental greatness now even more visible from space. Winning!
7I saw this posted on FB in the middle of the night and I laughed and laughed. Got another good laugh when I saw it again here. I don’t care if it was a prior windstorm or the hurricane. Glad no one was hurt.
8I saw some comments that it was an Arizona dust storm. That’s what it appears to be, but no matter. It’s great to watch.
9maybe they could repurpose the border patrol agents now in Portland back to the border because of actual permanent damage to federal property
10Panthercityhorn, your analogy to the falling flat of the Trump campaign must be extended to all of the Republican hypocrites who tied themselves to Trump and, let us hope, will end up as low as that wall.
11I’m betting on Santa Ana – the wind and the general. Notice that even as the “wall” began to cave and sway and fall over that none of the construction workers in view seemed to be buffeted by the wind. Had to be shoddy construction PLUS shoddy design. That heavy blank area at the top of each section has to be heavier than the stilts holding it up, which is a good definition of “top heavy”. If that top design had been sails, the “wall” would have flown away!
12Unfortunately, it’s not the wall in Texas or victim of the ravages of a hurricane, but it is a windstorm in New Mexico. So, a mixture.
13The scene looks like the same video shown from near Deming, NM, in May or June of this year. BuzzFeed says so, too.
Nice omen about Trump’s efforts, though.
14I’m no structural engineer, but I know some basic things, working in industrial construction. Maybe I’ve missed it in the pictures, but I don’t see any guy wires, meaning there’s no reinforcement restraint to the top of the wall.
15The key things are wind resistance and leverage.
Resistance: It IS a sail. 30 feet or higher. And thousands of miles long. The gaps between the slats will reduce resistance, but by no means eliminate it.
Leverage: The basic truth about leverage in this case is that the further away from the ground the same amount of force is applied, the the more force is applied to the base.
If you pick up something heavy, holding against your body places the least strain on your back. Start holding it further away, and the pain gets worse fast. The box of books didn’t get heavier, but the force on your back did.
The amount of force wind puts on the wall at 20 feet is twice as hard on the base as the same force at 10 feet. And three times as hard at 30 feet.
And from photos I’ve seen, the wall isn’t significantly thicker at the bottom to compensate.
It’s designed to fail.
At everything except keeping the racist anti-immigrant base constantly demanding it being kept repaired.
Sounds like a purty sweet deal for someone that scored a contract to build and probably MAINTAIN any section of it.
It will always fail at the base. Because that’s where it’s designed to be weakist.
16Weakest. Sorry.
17https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/watch-trumps-mighty-border-wall-falls
Per the Customs and Border Patrol, this video was actually from June, and the wall didn’t fall down as a result of Hurricane Hanna. The news was covered up at the time, of course, but when this went viral yesterday questions were raised about when the incident took place.
.@CBP just confirmed that this section of border wall in New Mexico blew over in June, but they covered it up until this video was leaked today.
18Trump’s building a 13-foot “anti-climb” wall around the White House to protect him from scary protesters. I assume they’ll use better materials.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-border-anti-climb-wall-us-trump-protests-a9639761.html
19Sailor here: Force of wind increases as CUBE of speed.
203 times speed is 27 times force. Non-intuitive.
Ormond Otvos:
21Thanks