Posted on 02/18/2017 8:14:25 AM PST by Texas Eagle
For every heavy equipment operator, there are probably 20 other employees.
I'm taking this to mean that the engineer on YouTube video who said "stay the hell out of Oroville" has been fired.
Yes thats pretty much exactly whats happening, plus there a situation of any drones taking video, rumor is to radio jam them, and the very few boots on the ground folks live streaming are being run off by the sheriff.
What really stinks is a load of so called experts on youtube who steal footage, use old footage, think concrete dries like paint, says a rock truck can haul 40,000 tons!
And you have one dude running up and down a levee in town saying he is at the base of the dam trying to get paypal donations.
This the decision, if it goes there is no time to get out, its like the situation of an approaching asteroid to hit earth but official’s will NOT allow news of it to surface. Let them die not knowing is getter than them dying fighting,looting,killing for shelter, yeah, like many movies we have seen. Thats it.
I have told all my family to NOT go any where near the valley. Its very bad without dam problems. Its out of control flooding, just pick up survivors later. This is a bad one, the whole state now with the southern storm hitting right now.
Bingo!
I’ve seen so many who keep going back and making comparisons to Katrina, and have been refuting them, it’s a red county, an agricultural area, the people are nothing like in New Orleans.
I guess what you describe actually is a valid comparison. though, just under different circumstances with a somewhat different threat looming.
Watch and learn, this is how authorities behave when SHTF time rolls around, red or blue, doesn’t matter.
I am confused, are you saying that these non government workers that may, and probably are using drugs while working on critical public infrastructure should not be terminated because of the extreme difficulty in terminating a union government employee? Well sorry I can’t agree, I have worked on construction jobs with drug users and they are too damn dangerous to have on a job, sooner or later someone gets hurt bad and too often it’s not the user.
No. I am saying it should be just as easy to terminate a state employee.
Wonder if the state is making timely payments to all of the contractors.
It would be a shame to see the state slow-walk the payments for services rendered.
Well no argument there.
Do they mean likes on Trump pages and selfies with MAGA hats?
What is their social media policy?
I have a friend who won a contract to do some work at Monterey County airport.
AFTER the work was done, he received notice from some government agency (it's been 10 years or so, so I don't remember exactly who), that he would have to go back and pay his employees prevailing wage for the work they performed. He was paying them something like 20 dollars an hour plus meals and lodging.
He had to go back and pay them something like 50 dollars an hour plus per diem and other such perqs.
Long story short, he ended up losing money on the project.
Its to me the better if not best part of California, i used to live there.
Unfortunately, that's not what happens. Even as their mistakes become evermore blatant and deadly, the progressives keep getting elected and re-elected, while California's law-abiding tax payers clean up and pay for their messes.
It is said that the rain falls on the just and the unjust and Californians, after such a long and severe drought, have been praying hard for rain.
Apparently, their prayers are being answered and now it's going to rain hard!
In these days of dramatic Climate Change, it's best just be thankful its only a sudden rain and not a Soddom rain, because that's the hardest rain of all, doncha know.
My switch to this little iPad is not going as well as I had hoped it would.
The dam will be the final judge here. If it collapses, it will cause a re-alignment of the political situation in California. Not quite enough to turn the state red - they need Trump to clear out the Illegals and fix the voting system for that - but enough to at least give Republicans a chance at winning once in a while.
It is only when the masses out there realize that the Dems have been living in the house that “daddy built” without maintaining it for decades, will they realize that Dems cannot be trusted to run the state. They are not there, yet, but if that dam collapses, they will be there.
If he bid the job on an RFP that indicated no requirement to pay prevailing wage and/or the project didn’t utilize federal funding it should have been easy to invoice for the additional PW costs and associated overhead.
If he didn’t catch that it was in the RFP then he was SOL...
The dam itself is not going to collapse and is in no danger of doing so.
Yea, good point. I’m not following too closely - it’s more that the lake may drain. But that will still have ramifications, should it happen.
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