Los Angeles- the Babylon and On of our times.. was conceived with a good dose of sunstroke 75 years ago and has had its head in tv and film that long to ignore its daily infrastructure SNAFU’s (SNAFU=Situation Normal All Fucked Up)
Civil Engineers must be smoking medicial marijuana to ignore what is so obvious… the water pipes..power grid..and sewer systems.. most of the substructures..were done in 1924!!!!
Keep playing computer games waiting for the big one while sink holes and water pressure is so out of whack the sprinkler systems are causing problems weekly. We are in the age of digital worrying about water.. Anyone Anyone Why is our powergrid on wood poles interrupting tree growth.. and what is this GREEN Scene have to do with blocks of asphalt roofs and no zoning codes for replacing them with solar panels..
Waiting for the Big One..(Earthquake)
Typical Los Angeles behavior waiting for an agent from above to turn everything into a magical opportunity. Well this agent does not work for ICM or CAA. This agent is called Mother Nature and follows the agents of Chaos, Plate Techtonics, Geomagnetism and the Laws of Entropy (aka Physics). It made hi-tech Japan into a radioactive wasteland in minutes and now.. we play games with sprinkler days for civilians and challenge shower heads..worrying about water consumption when really the problem is the WATER PIPES ALL NEED TO BE REPLACED.
Varying water pressure and seismic activity have shaken this substructure system for 75 years now and we have the technology to use it..We just don’t.
Waiting… for what?
The WPA or Works Progress Administration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration, made this happen and now we need to figure out, Non-baby boomers, how to rebuild a country that is not a member of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
Los Angeles is a great opportunity, or will be an example of too little too late. Learning from Japan is truly something that is more pertinent than not…so next time Carmegeddon makes national news.. realize it could be sooo much worse and Los Angeles Water and Power works daily to keep LA shiny and happy and out of the realization that the infrastructure is old and stressed out.
