Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

Nope. Waved through.

 

I agree with this but the relocates look sexy AF,

 

So dose a real mid travel set up.

 

That king blue makes me wet.
Lol

 

The 12" smoothies are cheaper than the king OEM rears even with the relocate towers IIRC but if you're paying for install it's more.

 

what rear shock are/were you running?

 

Orals aren’t the breaking point. 95% of candidates wash out during background checks because they’re goons in life when not under LE scrutiny.

 

@nDub , is this under your purview, I understand you work with the sf water supply. Sounds scary, evacuations and all.

https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/S...-Hetch-Hetchy-12774892.php#item-85307-tbla-15

 

Yeah it’s right outside my office window.

It was pretty crazy how much water came down the creek. Took the reservoir level within a foot of going over the top of the dam. Luckily it didn’t...

It’s a really small reservoir though, more of a balancing reservoir for power and water deliveries. Would have been crazy if it went but wouldn’t have caused much trouble downstream. Except for fish and game people who live at the hatchery. They might have been flooded.

 

I was watching that. So was it in danger of actual failure, or just overtopping?

 

That is a good question... I personally don't think it would have catastrophically failed if it over topped but I'm not a dam engineer. It's an earthen dam though so probably would have made a mess of the downstream slope.

In the early 90's they put an auxiliary spillway in that is supposed to handle a 1000 year flood and that was almost overwhelmed.

And to think the creek that did all this dries up in the summer...

 

I guess the damn engineers need to re think the definition of “1000 year”

 

Any 1st gens looking to buy my airaid intake tube?

 

Thousand year?
A lot of our projects are designed to handle 100 year storms but not 1000 year.

 

Which creek is that? I was trying to remember what actually feeds that besides the penstocks/powerhouse.

It just means 1 in 100 chance of it happening any given year. That was a freak squall line that was warm, and moving upslope. I wonder how much snow it melted in its course. There was localized flooding in urban areas that never flood, just becaue the storm drain system capacity was overwhelmed, or in some cases, perhaps clogged.

Do the bare minimum to comply with federal/FEMA standards, right? What types of projects do you typically work on? Any critical infrastructure, or is it mostly housing and commercial?

I'm finding risk assessment more and more interesting these days after having worked on strategic flood planning for the past 4 years. Feel like I'm still just barely scratching the surface.

 

Think I'm going to order a Prinsu rack soon and want opinions: cutout for a light bar, yea or nay?

 

It’s a cab rack? Then yes, light bar!

 

WTF? Tesla driver texting?

 

Holy shit!

This reminds me....

On Monday afternoon around 3pm I was heading north on 880 around automall parkway in lane one (OHV lane) going about 75mph on my motorcycle.

I was passed, in my lane, by another motorcycle like I was standing still...I'd guess he was hitting close to 100mph. The OHV lane was already going 25 mph faster than traffic. The rider was weaving in and out of traffic probably doubling the average speed.

Within 5 minutes traffic had come to a crawl. I lane split to the front to find 3 cars stopped on the highway. In front of the cars was the same motorcycle on it's side. The rider was being helped up. His jeans and jacket (looked like a carhart) were torn and I could seen road rashed skin underneith. The guy was super lucky to be standing let alone alive.

If you ride please be safe and don't ride like a jack ass.

 

Most def light bar