Dave from down under wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:31 pm
It must be anchored to the riverbead along it's length - otherwise it will end up on one or more banks.
I'm looking forward to the official opening with cameras etc..
and some scuba divers with hacksaws..
For about $1,500, you could put together an underwater cutting torch rig using acetylene and oxygen. I bet a diver could go through a whole bunch of cables holding this thing together in just a few minutes. And if you did it from the Mexican side, the odds that the Federales would prosecute are fairly small. That's an affordable investment for some enterprising coyotes in the smuggling business to keep their business open. And if a bunch of coyotes started cutting up the floats, the Texas government wouldn't be able to keep up with repairs fast enough.
It'll hold up longer than the stacked shipping container wall in Arizona, but not by much.
Of course, we'll soon find out that the float system is either manufactured or installed by some big donor to Abbott's campaign and that it was signed without a competitive bid process because it's "emergency management equipment" or some such nonsense. And when the Army Corps of Engineers, who has jurisdiction on hydrology of inland waterways sues, Abbott will lose, but he will have prepaid for tons of product from his crony, which the government won't be able to recoup. The corruption is, as always, the point.