Comments on: California: about those fire hydrants and that reservoir

By: Don

Don — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:22:17 +0000

There’s an issue I see as the “interface problem” where the owner of a system that interfaces to another system will claim all is good even if the interface isn’t working. The owner of the other system does likewise, both point fingers but don’t own the problem.

This was a common problem when working on navy ships when starting new systems or troubleshooting existing ones.

Her approach on this seems to be the same, “that’s not my responsibility so it’s not my problem”. Even if she lacks formal authority over water, she still has a voice, and understanding how the water system works and it’s current status is something she would know if she was good at her job.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:12:50 +0000

The last part of the VDH excerpt makes me think that many of the CA legislators are the sort of people that agree completely with Ted Kaczynski and his manifesto. Of course, some of them probably also think that it is OK to take all of the peons back to the stone age, but they will be cruising in corporate jets between their multiple mansions.

By: R2L

R2L — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:47:24 +0000

Marlene, I agree that John Kennedy of Lousiana is indeed a national treasure, but he is also one of their two senators, not a House rep. With 535 or 538 of them to keep straight, not a difficult mistake to make. 🙂

Anne: “… The idea that they can’t carry the weight of a male firefighter in order to rescue a fellow firefighter …” won’t matter after all of the male firefighters retire or quit, so then the lady firefighters will only have to be able to carry their female colleagues. Of course the few transgender members on the force may be heavier than normal, but social justice justifies that sort of sacrifice.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:33:55 +0000

On especially hot days in Chicago Firemen would sometimes open a hydrant for area kids to play in. It was tremendous fun! The joy was increased because one never knew when it would happen; it was a surprise and a great treat!

Rufus T. Firefly:

I recall the images but I never knew how that worked. Lovely!

It’s hard to imagine something like that happening today.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:24:00 +0000

huxley,

Regarding the Steyn piece and the included Saturday Evening Post illustration:
On especially hot days in Chicago Firemen would sometimes open a hydrant for area kids to play in. It was tremendous fun! The joy was increased because one never knew when it would happen; it was a surprise and a great treat!

Firemen would also flood baseball fields in winter to form ice rinks. There was a firehouse one block from my house and when we’d get exhausted from playing basketball the firemen would let us use the drinking fountain in the firehouse.

Firemen were awesome when I was a kid!

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:14:50 +0000

Here in MT I have on several occasions become aware of the fact that many firefighters/administrators also have daughters. During these years (1990-present) I have known several fire administrators who feel they are being wonderful fathers by encouraging the Firefighter system to promote women into administrative roles. They may only have to be fully suited in ONE building fire to qualify for a leadership role. The idea that they can’t carry the weight of a male firefighter in order to rescue a fellow firefighter is no longer a part of the physical criteria for leadership. I believe the incredibel display of incompetence by each of these women will help to start a return to merit! We may even require a full listing of actual experience on a job application form ! You can also review the decline of our universities to see the horrific damage that pushing women into jobs for which they are not qualified has done over the past 40 years!

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 01:04:14 +0000

For the woke, Dems and DEI types their job is acquiring more power.

Let the blue collar types and nerds take care of keeping things running. That’s their job, no matter how hard the Dems make it.

Democrats have more important things on their mind.

By: James Sisco

James Sisco — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:50:39 +0000

The Enviromental lobby is a big player in California politics, and especially in the push for “zero-emissions” lifestyles. Less water is double plus good.
Their bots in the democrat media push the “climate change has made all weather events more extreme”, but there’s no data that backs up that claim. The Santa Ana winds blow from September to February, but the October to December period is the prime season. No one should be emptying reservoirs that feed the water storage facilities, and ultimately, fire hydrants, during prime season in a fire prone area, unless there’s a suitable back up plan.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:46:32 +0000

In a promo for the Fire Department, one of the 3 K’s chuckled off a wife’s question about whether she could drag her husband out of a fire: “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” Would a husband really be that much harder to drag out of a burning building than she would?

LA’s Water Chief is likewise a DEI obsessed incompetent.

I’m nominating “buttigieg” for the Word of the Year. To buttigieg is to be obsessed with DEI and not do your real job. To be buttigiegged is to have this revealed. But I suppose there are enough buttigieggers in the world that another name might become the year’s new household word.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:59:31 +0000

from a certain point of view, she was just what was ordered,