Curt63
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Vados
Ok this is a couple weeks late and has already been covered in another post.
I'm actually experimenting with posting video on Tumblr ( I work on an educational network that blocks youtube).
Does anyone else have good pictures of vados with water running?
Raging Vado
No worries
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woody with a view
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Cha'le.... the best one i ever saw was a winter time downpour in yucca valley 2 winters ago. snow everywhere, and the ditch (i mean vado, vato!) on
the north side of the 62 was 4 feet deep. interesting day getting back to the rancho....
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woody with a view
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like the guy said, "shinga su ....." looking at it in better days it seems so unreal that much water could move so quick, for so long.......
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bryanmckenzie
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WOW! Thanks Ridge. As a water resources/hydraulics engineer with ALOT of floodplain experience, THAT is one of the most impressive flows I have ever
seen. Although that's an arroyo more than a vado.
I think I will throttle back my criticism of shoddy Mexican construction a bit. By any design standard, USA included, that is an almost impossible
flow to design a man-made structure against --- short version: the entire river/arroyo bed becomes "fluid" and moves with the current.
How deep you ask? Ask a Caltrans bridge expert, but it can range from a few feet to 20'+ deep in sandy soils (hence, VERY deep pile footings).
[Edited on 2011-7-22 by bryanmckenzie]
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elgatoloco
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Wow!
MAGA
marooons Are Governing America
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BajaGringo
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I remember that flow in the San Quintin river bed after very strong rains from the south last year. That same storm knocked out the bridges at El
Rosario, Vicente Guerrero and San Vicente.
Edit - Looking at the video again I think that is the bridge at Vicente Guerrero. The San Quintin bridge never breached.
[Edited on 7-23-2011 by BajaGringo]
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Frank
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Anybody have anymore? That video sure does put all of the new bridge work into perspective.
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motoged
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More San Quintin You Tubers:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=san+quintin+arroyo&aq=f
Don't believe everything you think....
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LaTijereta
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1990 Baja 500 was fun...
fishing could have been better, but those race cars kept getting in the way...
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin (1759)
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DavidE
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Try as I mght SCT engineers do not understand the value of using piers beneath their columns, sigh.
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