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Fishing for dummies
- Thread starter cda
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My first thought was that they were giving fatboy a ride.
Yikes
SAWHORSE
Now, here's fishing for Dummies, Los Angeles style: Fishing with Stones - YouTube
RJJ
Co-Founder
Yikes I love it! Is that a river or a sewer?
mjesse
REGISTERED
My wife was on board that rocket.ICE said:
I was sending her to the moon.
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Ten seconds into the flight she told mission control she forgot to turn off her curling iron
and she just had to go back.
Yikes
SAWHORSE
Technically, it's a river, but (a) we get so little rainfall, that most of the time it's extremely shallow and slow-moving, if at all; (b) decades ago, most of the river was paved into a flood control channel. The channel was designed to accomodate vehicle traffic for civil defense purposes - -you can see it in a lot in various movies and TV shows like "The Italian Job", "24", etc. The part you saw in the video is a segment just south of Glendale, where the river bottom is earth, not concrete.RJJ said:
Los Angeles River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trivia anecdote: supposedly, in the debriefing of Japanese military strategists after WW2, they discovered an attack scenario by Imperial Navy to send submarines up the river. They apparently had not scouted yet to find the actual depth!
Because most of the river is paved over, it can quickly turn into a "flash flood" type situation during a regular rainfall. Otherwise, it's typically only about a foot deep or so.
There are some groups advocating to the return of the LA river to its natural state.