Posted on 08/17/2018 8:28:36 AM PDT by BeauBo
Make sure you measure from the north side... ;)
I imagine that is because if one falls off a 30 foot wall and breaks both legs in the middle of the desert, one is in heap big trouble unless one is found soon.
And oh how our media would becry such a cruel and heartless murder wall.
Doesn’t look too hard to get over...
i’m thinking 12-15 feet.
I have a ladder out back that would get me over that in 10 seconds.
great work guys..
needs a deep mine field, another fence, patrol road and patrol stations.
I am suspect!”
Solution: Run a 12 KV exposed line along the top. Just put “Pelegro” signs with a skull & crossbones every so many feet on the Mexican side!
I like it!
I love going to
“The Front Line “ here in San Diego!
Please “ping” me afterwards.
Thanks.
U.S. defense contractor has been building border fences for other countries.
They built terrorist and refugee proof border fences for both Saudi Arabia and Jordan, 800-1000 miles each. Each one has watch towers, ditches to stop cars driving through, etc.
But they won’t bid on the same thing here.
They did a half-assed “virtual border fence” of open pylons and sensors around 2008. That failed because:
* it doesn’t matter if you don’t deploy enough border agents to catch a few people coming through
* it fails entirely when there is a dispersed crowd, people coming through in groups at the same time over a wide area
* it fails when mobbed in a single area, akin to the Palestinian effort to send thousands at the Israeli wall at once
The fence has to be solid and more than a metal wall to work.
They have a mix of fencing here,
Bollard,landing material and
many spots with 3 strands of
Barbed Wire.
The fence pictured would
Definitely be intimidating
as one would be standing at it’s
Base.
Visiting the building sites
Is Definitely an Education,!
We have a friend that works for a construction company that bid on the fence and didn’t get the job; but he said there were all sorts of incentive bonuses for early completion and penalties for going over cost or time. Carrots and sticks. That is how you get things done in the real world.
That vehicle barrier was a huge waste of time and money. Boondoggle joke. That was what New Mexico got from the Secure Fence Act, and we got very little of that. Most of our border is still today is old barb wire livestock fence.
You would be surprised how many people oppose Trump’s wall because they believe the entire border is already fenced with a great fence like most of California has...Duncan Hunter fence. Those people think Trump just wants to replace it because of his ego or whatever.
Please all of you help educate people what type of border fencing we really have in most areas of the border.
Quite a bit of illegal traffic in that area, it was a good place to start. The thing is as they finish the sections that are heavily traveled the illegal traffic of course goes around so they have to keep that fence moving along. Each section will make a huge difference.
IIRC, "monsoon season" in that neck of the woods lasts about a week, ten days tops. Rains like hell during that period, accounts for about 80% of the annual rainfall.
I remember a storm at Fort Bliss many years ago, rained about 5 inches in two hours. El Paso gets maybe a foot of rain the entire year.
Trans.....
That’s true, I forgot.
Dang it!
And now WE TAXPAYERS will foot the Medical Bills and Pay for and off the Lawsuit.
Thank You, Please PING Me when You know.
I still really don’t like that design. The vertical posts make it all too easy to climb. My sense is that the border patrol union, like all unions, wanted to protect its number of jobs and convinced them of a bogus design.
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