Flooding

Stolen from some vato from KFOX

I hate picking on the crazies...okay I'm lying, I LOVE picking on those idiots, but the latest rants I've seen on Facebook make me laugh.

I know this shit might be hard for you to understand but you can never completely prevent flooding. Every engineering project, no matter how well its designed and constructed, has limits. If the Almighty decides he wants to drop a ton of water in a given location in a very brief amount of time there will be flooding. 

Our drainage systems are designed for your regular rainfall. Hell they are designed to cover above average rainfall too. But when its record-setting rain, there's no system out there that can prevent it. If there was, then there would never be flooding in any city ever.

When it comes to water and flooding, you can minimize it, you can mitigate it, and you can manage it. But you can't PREVENT it! It was record rainfall. Its going to collect. Are you really that fucking stupid? 

The answer is yes, you are. 

And you never fail to amaze me at the depth of your stupid. I swear when everything works, your dumbasses don't notice. When there is biblical amount of rain all of you are now amateur engineers.

Flooding is an inconvenience. It sucks and for those of you that lost vehicles or had damage to your homes you have my sympathy. It a terrible thing to happen. But its not your city reps fault, no matter how unqualified or disconnected from reality your city rep may be. 

Remember hearing about the flood in the Bible? Remember Moses parting the Red Sea? Thats how long flooding has been around. Thats why flooding is considered a natural disaster. 

Cuz its fucking NATURAL.

And another thing. 

Lets talk about sandbags. Sandbags are like condoms. You should make sure you have them BEFORE you need them and they have a shelf life. Both will fall apart on you and be useless if you store them too long before use. If you wait until after the rain has come down you are probably S.O.L. All your neighbors already went. They are gone and the land is all saturated, so you're screwed.

That being said, sandbags should be readily available for distribution. Making sandbags is a bitch. Vince, Jose, Mayor Ruiz, Councilman Rodriguez, and Willie Norfleet (Socorro) all made sandbags during flooding in the valley about a year ago and I can tell you it sucks balls. 

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Its labor intensive, even with a big machine that they have that makes sand bags in bulk. The thing is huge, loud, and high maintenance, like my little sister.

But there is no centralized sand-bag making/distribution operation in El Paso.

Clearly someone has to be in charge and make sure they are available. 

I remember in 2006 when we had the major flooding Ed Archuleta ran a cluster fuck of a sand bag operation. 

I know a lot of you hold the old-timer in high-esteem but personally I question anyone who is in charge of providing sandbags in the desert and runs out of fucking sand.