You forgot the deadly snakes but point taken
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That’s no worse than what my kids do to our cats. Its a miracle that there hasn’t been more blood drawn
It's not the size difference. I've seen plenty of that. It's clearly shopped.
These gamers can't look at a woman for how she's actually built. They all have to develop them into their fantasy world.
It would have been a great photo if left alone
If it floats, fucks or flies....your better off renting. Says the guy who took none of that advice.
I can’t wait for someone to admit that they never thought of using water from the Pacific. Absolutely cannot fucking wait
Salt water can't be used in most of the ground apparatus. Unless it's built to handle saline. It would corrode the pumps and inner works. You can probably use it in re: Helicopter or similar drops, but that's about it.
Do you think it would last a few days or a couple weeks and maybe help get things under control?
Or would it like instantaneously corrode and lock up within an hour?
Perhaps, but at what cost? Several millions in either repaired or new apparati? They don't have enough working rigs as it is....
Salt water is corrosive for sure. The pumps, valves and pressure regulators will survive long enough to get the fires out.
If they immediately flush them using H2O and a product called salt away, most of their equipment won't suffer any long term damage.
Now, for long term use, beyond the corrosiveness, salt water is very, very abrasive.
When I worked at the Tampa Bay desalination plant, the items that took the brunt of the damage were the pump impellers. However, they were very high quality stainless steel, and lasted a very long time.
The highest level of damage was to the Pelton wheel leading edges. These were energy recovery items and they were spun with very high pressure, high saline content first pass discharge water.
We even tried carbide tipping them, but it was just no use.
Knowing this, I'd say pump that sea water, clean up your shit and worry about damage later. Your priority is getting the fires under control, and then out.
Salt water can absolutely be used in any fire fighting apparatus. It's just like firing corrosive ammo in a rifle. You fucking clean it afterwards. Almost all of the fittings and pipes in modern fire fighting apparatus are stainless anyway.
But, but, it'll corrode their shiny chrome and leave spots on their pretty red paint...
This should stop right here. The helicopter dippers, and sea plane scoopers are literally using thousands of gallons of sea water, daily. A single scooper carries 1500 gallons. Every 12 minutes, all damn day, less fuel stops. You do the math.
A sky crane or chinook carries over 3,000 gallons at 132 mph, blackhawks and Huey’s 1800-3000 ( struggle with the heavier bucket in high temps or at altitude), up to 4,000 lbs, range 345 mi, and even the jet rangers and other type 3 helicopters carry between 800-1700 gallon, per sortie. That a lot of sea water, with a short distance and turn around time.
Pumps are a different story, of course, but that’s apples to orangutans.
Not nearly as bad as the shit they spray on roads to melt snow and ice.
They weren't dropping sea water in CA. There is a hilltop fire fighting helicopter pad right in the fire zone with numerous dip tanks. They were going in and out of there like bees at a hive. I watched it on Alert California live cams for a while.
Why do folks keep supporting the notion that se
Airtankers get water from the ocean to fight the Palisades Fire Jan. 9, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. / Credit: Apu Gomes / Getty Images
Maybe people think that the fire department should have thrown hoses in the ocean and then run a few miles of hose up into the hills to a pumper truck to provide water. Now if we only had hundreds of miles of hose, another three or four thousand fire fighters, and another 500 trucks, maybe the homes up on the hill would have survived
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For some reason, folks keep making the claim that water from the ocean was not used. Those making the claim are usually those that don’t live in California and have no idea what had been going on.
Airtankers get water from the ocean to fight the Palisades Fire Jan. 9, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. / Credit: Apu Gomes / Getty Images
Maybe people think that the fire department should have thrown hoses in the ocean and then run a few miles of hose up into the hills to a pumper truck to provide water. Now if we only had hundreds of miles of hose, another three or four thousand fire fighters, and another 500 trucks, maybe the homes up on the hill would have survived
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At least air drops. I get that about the trucks/pumps but with how absolutely fucking horribly the CA gov has handled it this situation seems like it should be an exception.
So what you are saying is this could lower the sea level and halt the risk to ocean front properties, right? RIGHT?
