Portion of US border wall in California falls over in high winds and lands on Mexican side
Source: CNN
Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds Wednesday, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border.
The area is part of an ongoing construction project to improve existing sections of the wall.
Agent Carlos Pitones of the Customs and Border Protection sector in El Centro, California, told CNN that the sections that gave way had recently been set in a new concrete foundation in Calexico, California. The concrete had not yet cured, according to Pitones, and the wall panels were unable to withstand the windy conditions.
The National Weather Service reports that winds in the area gusted as high as 37 mph Wednesday. Video from CNN affiliate KYMA shows the metal panels leaning against trees adjacent to a Mexicali, Mexico, street as the wind whips up dirt from the construction site on the other side of the border.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/29/politics/us-border-wall-falls-over-high-winds/index.html
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Squidly
(783 posts)Haha wonder what would have happened if it had actually been windy?
SnowCritter
(810 posts)N/T
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Sheesh - so now border-crossers can put away their ladder and just bring a fan?
oasis
(49,390 posts)should have taken his sorry ass off the golf course and supervised.
Monsieur_Grumpe
(110 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Welcome to DU.
This just makes me laugh. I love it that trump's Ozymandian Wall turned out to be so spindly!!
IcyPeas
(21,893 posts)lark
(23,114 posts)beastie boy
(9,375 posts)I think Mexico should build a wall to prevent US walls from entering Mexico illegally. And make America pay for it!
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)First was ladders, then oxyi acetalyene torches and now.....
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Add few generators, ..
marble falls
(57,112 posts)BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)they should confiscate it and sell it for scrap.
Yavin4
(35,443 posts)Make the wall out of brick the next time.
Vogon_Glory
(9,120 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Then, we would be responsible for their medical treatment and convalescence.
Nitram
(22,822 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Trump's wall falls in the rain.
KayF
(1,345 posts)"whoever heard of wind?"
Squidly
(783 posts)Mother nature is a hoax! They have been trying to blow my wall over since before I was elected!! Read the weather report!! It was a perfect forecast!!