Faced with a flooding orchard, farmers build a quick dam out of a couple of pickup trucks.
As you may be aware, drought-ravaged California has lately received so much precipitation that they'll be skiing in Tahoe till August and the lower elevations are starting to look like Louisiana bayou. Systems calibrated to deal with a predictable amount of rain are failing, as exemplified by a particular levee in Tulare Lake Basin, a farming region in the San Joaquin Valley.
The problem with long-drained Tulare Lake is that it periodically likes to reappear after heavy rains, which thoroughly bonks the intricate water-delivery systems that feed the farmland. And yesterday, after a levee failed, local farmers came up with a quick and inspired solution: Drive a couple trucks into the breach.This idea immediately raises number of questions, most notably whether two of the area's least-favorite half-ton trucks would be heavy enough to stop up raging floodwaters.
The Chevy appears to have a column shifter, making this gambit slightly less dangerous, but our muddy protagonist still needs to step lively once the LS V-8 goes into drive. Which he does, stepping back to admire the temporarily autonomous Silverado make its short trip from atop the levee to down into it, where it lodges against the F-150 and indeed seems to mostly impede the floodwaters from reaching the orchard on the opposite side. The guys in the video seem pleased with the outcome, anyway.
, Tulare Lake levees were reinforced with crushed cars during floods in 1969. But those presumably weren't driven in under their own power. That, we can all agree, is the innovation here. We hope the plan worked out and the truck-based dam held up. But if, a few months from now, you see a blue Silverado or an extended-cab F-150 4x4 for sale real cheap in the San Joaquin Valley, maybe be extra thorough on that pre-purchase inspection.
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