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  1. 7 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

    There are no fewer than 5 current investigations of George Santos right now.  They're all distinct but overlapping, and every single one of them revolves around good old fashioned fraud.  To your specific angle though, I think that would most closely fall under Nassau County's existing criminal investigation:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/nyregion/george-santos-long-island-investigation.html

    Thanks, I had not been following all that close and missed that.

  2. 1 hour ago, Saint Austin said:

    Thanks, all, for the recap and Meatballs gif… Any feedback on Camp La Junta or Camp Longhorn? Apparently some of those eben have waitlists?

    I was a CLH kid. Loved it. I've heard that its almost impossible to get into unless both parents are alums. 

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  3. On 1/11/2023 at 11:44 AM, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

    Dumb question:

    Is CA able to collect a good chunk of this water for future use or is it all falling too close to the coastline and not being captured?

    https://www.npr.org/2023/01/11/1148421818/heavy-rain-is-still-hitting-california-a-few-reservoirs-figured-out-how-to-captu

     

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-06/why-cant-we-capture-all-this-storm-water

     

    The latter:

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    The Los Angeles River roared to life this week as a series of powerful storms moved through the Southland. In Long Beach, 3 feet of water shut down the 710 Freeway in both directions, while flooding in the San Fernando Valley forced the closure of the Sepulveda Basin.

    It was by all accounts a washout, but despite heaps of water pouring into the area, drought-weary Los Angeles won’t be able to save even half of it. The region’s system of engineered waterways is designed to whisk L.A.'s stormwater out to sea — a strategy intended to reduce flooding that nonetheless sacrifices countless precious gallons.

    Voters in 2018 approved Measure W, which is aimed at improving L.A.'s aging stormwater capture system. Officials are making progress, but experts say there’s a long way to go. Of an estimated 5 billion to 10 billion gallons pouring into the Los Angeles Basin from current storms, only about 20% will be captured by the county.

    “In a region that imports 60% of our water, it’s just a huge untapped potential for a local water supply,” said Bruce Reznik, executive director of L.A. Waterkeeper. “We passed the Safe Clean Water Program to get us there, but we’re just not there yet. It’s going to take us some years."\\

    Many years, in fact. County officials have said it will take three to five decades to build its stormwater capture system to full capacity, with the ultimate goal of capturing 300,000 acre-feet, or roughly 98 billion gallons, of water annually.

    Part of the challenge is that the current system was built about 100 years ago, in an era when Angelenos were more concerned about saving lives and property from flooding than they were about drought. Their solution was to lay millions of barrels of concrete to get rid of that water faster — channelizing the L.A. River, Ballona Creek and nearly every other waterway in the area.

    Though a few regional watersheds, such as the Upper San Gabriel River, have good soils and systems for capturing stormwater, they are few and far between, with the vast majority of water that comes to the region “on a superhighway to get out,” said Reznik.

    “Water is the most precious resource we have, something that we cannot live without, and yet we do everything we can, when it comes to rain, to get rid of it as soon as possible,” he said.

    Los Angeles County Department of Public Works spokesman Kerjon Lee said Measure W is working, however. Since its approval in 2018, the agency has awarded $400 million to more than 100 regional infrastructure projects, such as the Rory M. Shaw Wetlands Park Project to convert a 46-acre landfill into a wetlands park that can collect stormwater runoff.

    But he also said much of the rain is ending up in the Pacific, with L.A. River outflows measuring about 28,500 cubic feet per second Thursday.

    “The conditions were ripe for capturing more, but when it comes all at once — which is kind of how we get our water here — we’ve got to move that water away from city streets and away from properties to save life and property,” Lee said. “We have that dual mission: flood protection and supporting local water supply.”

    City officials said similarly that stormwater capture capability is improving, including about 20 projects from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in the last decade. Updates to the Tujunga Spreading Grounds facility in the San Fernando Valley, for example, doubled its ability to capture stormwater from 8,000 acre-feet per year to 16,000.

     

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  4. On 1/10/2023 at 8:43 AM, Carl Spackler said:

    It's been raining steadily in Pasadena, and I know there's been flooding and evacuations in the SB and Montecito areas.  The 101 is closed between Ventura and SB.  And the 166 is closed for now as well, so you wouldn't be able to take I-5 north, go west on the 166, and then drop down into Los Olivos from the Santa Maria area.  Right now it's a big shitshow in that area of CA.    

    Are you in Pasadena?

  5. I'm a man, I'm 40, but in my day, everyone was doing pills in high school and college. Xanax, vicodin, valium, etc. 

    I would hope that we would have stopped if our friends were dying, but IDK. I saw a teenage acquaintance kill a person while DUI and get locked up. Didnt stop me from getting behind the wheel the very next Friday night.

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