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Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 06 February, 2024, 09:46:24 am

Title: LA floods
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 February, 2024, 09:46:24 am
https://youtu.be/JCMID6A6h10?si=Hljzuk51JqGbaHio

This is the bit where Danny and Leo race in "Grease".  Maybe not just now.
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: Jurek on 08 February, 2024, 08:26:54 am
Is it not also the bit where the lorry was chasing Arnie on a Harley in Terminator 2?
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 February, 2024, 06:36:15 pm
Given the implications that would be more appropriate.
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: cygnet on 09 February, 2024, 09:20:48 pm
Wasn't the T2 section more canyon-like than the V sides to the Grease race?
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: ian on 09 February, 2024, 09:21:51 pm
Is it not also the bit where the lorry was chasing Arnie on a Harley in Terminator 2?


Yes, it's literally the Los Angeles River, excellent for that kind of thing when the water isn't flowing. It does flood though, as it comes down from the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains to the north of LA County which are both bigly and full of things that actually might eat rather than shoot you.
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: Beardy on 09 February, 2024, 10:04:03 pm
I’m still trying to work out why a river in spate is newsworthy. I mean, the damn think was designed to hold water, not teenagers and robots racing each other.
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: Basil on 09 February, 2024, 10:26:07 pm
I’m still trying to work out why a river in spate is newsworthy. I mean, the damn think was designed to hold water, not teenagers and robots racing each other.

+1   ???
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: Jaded on 09 February, 2024, 10:50:10 pm
If that’s a river, then I am a banananana.
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: Pingu on 09 February, 2024, 11:10:20 pm
It's just what we've done to a lot of our watercourses but taken to American exstreams  ;)
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 February, 2024, 11:36:41 pm
Many years ago – IIRC it was the early 1980s – some of the early IHPVA held a sprint race meeting in there.
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 February, 2024, 04:11:00 pm
They are re-naturalising it in places.  Although iconic from its use in films, it is a pretty brutal (or Brutalist) thing to do to a river.
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: ian on 10 February, 2024, 07:53:30 pm
They are re-naturalising it in places.  Although iconic from its use in films, it is a pretty brutal (or Brutalist) thing to do to a river.


I suspect there’s usually more water trickling down Swindon High Street on a Saturday night than the LA River.
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: Jaded on 11 February, 2024, 01:26:09 am
They are re-naturalising it in places.  Although iconic from its use in films, it is a pretty brutal (or Brutalist) thing to do to a river.


I suspect there’s usually more water trickling down Swindon High Street on a Saturday night than the LA River.

Yellow water?
Title: Re: LA floods
Post by: ian on 11 February, 2024, 11:39:19 am
Likely. Those these days it’s still cleaner than most actual rivers.