Thread 11916459

I'm playing San Andreas. Can anyone explain to me why this river is dry/dammed? Isn't LA pretty hot? I'm not American, never seen anything like this where I live.
Anyway, San Andreas thread I guess. I feel like this game is too big and it triggers my autism. Can't memorize the whole map and all the activities, half of it is kinda empty anyway, even driving to your house you have to rely on that weird small turn before the pawn shop.

>>11916459 (OP)
this is GTAV, not San Andreas you retard.

>>11916463
Oh ok, I thought this was from a remaster. Well anyway, is the same river, same question

>>11916459 (OP)
Can't remember exactly but something about a really shallow water table and LA wet season being prone to flooding.

It doesn't rain much in LA but when it does it can really pour. The sidewalks are like a 6 inches up off the ground in some places with huge storm drains.

>>11916459 (OP)
that's not a river, retard. It's a culvert. You've never seen a city?

>>11916459 (OP)
No river, it's a flood control channel and a well-known landmark of the real California that San Andreas was based on. Now the real reason it's in the game is so it can do the canal chase scene from Terminator 2.

>>11916482
Oh, so that's what it was? I knew it looked familiar.
>>11916472
How come they had those forest fires recently though? Was it during a drought?

>>11916474
Calm down anon, where I live we don't have floods, tornadoes, and other natural disasters such as black people

>>11916463
No it's Skate 2 map.

>>11916513
It's clearly a Sims 3 recreation

>>11916505
Where do you live that flooding is impossible? I've never seen a city without culverts in the US or China

>>11916504
The place gets dry. Have to realize even when Spaniards were in the area in the 16th century they even reported wild fires. Wild fires are just part of the region.

Right now arsonist take advantage of the situation. Dry vegetation and fire fighter cut backs for programs to perform preventative measures for wild fires to spread.

>>11916459 (OP)
should i give gta v another try? I last played it 8 years ago or sth, finished the games as well but i don't remember having too much fun, but maybe I wasn't in the right mood? On the other hand i really didn't like any 3D GTA game too much, except for SA

>>11916568
I mean, we don't have a giant concrete culvert like this running through the whole city, with bridges across it. We do have a river, it's just relatively small. We actually had a small "flood" once, but it wasn't big regardless, and it's something that happens maybe once-twice a century.

>>11916504
>How come they had those forest fires recently though? Was it during a drought?
Because those areas were originally not hospitable to life or were made inhospitable by clear cutting. The tree canopy used to prevent the overgrowth of brush in the areas that burn the most.

>>11916578
Interesting. Giant culverts aren't in every city here either but just pretty common since so many places flood.

>>11916459 (OP)
>never seen anything like this where I live.
have a look outside your parents basement

>>11916583
Huh, really? What other cities have those? I mean, I can easily see some place prone to floods using those, like maybe Florida/Arizona. But I haven't heard of anything like this in Europe, though I'm definitely not too educated on this.
If you mean small underground culverts, then yeah sure, we have tons of those.

>>11916459 (OP)
It's not dammed it's just southern California gets almost no rain so it's empty most of the time. Sometimes California gets extremely wet winters with a solid month+ of rain and that's when that thing becomes useful.

>>11916592
I'm from the US I meant here. I've seen them in Memphis, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and New Orleans.

>>11916504
it is very dry here 90% of the time and "LA" is a fairly large geographic region

>>11916625
So I see the pattern, they build those wherever black population is high

>>11916580
I think the only sensible solution is to eminent domain Californians at gunpoint and turn the entire southern half of the state into a giant nature preserve.

The Californians can go live in Mexico or something.

>>11916904
>I think
Sure you do buddy

>>11916885
>>11916505
so this thread has nothing to do with retro games and you brought up black people twice completely unprompted? This thread should do very well here.

>>11916504
It was during a Drought yes, and other factors.

Understand, a low water table means the moisture on the ground dries up much quicker than if there were some deep underground reservoir keeping the area damp. That plus foolish dry brush clearing practices = recipe for disaster.

LA IS a very dry place most of the time, but when it does rain it can rain a lot and can be prone to flash flooding so you need a way to direct the water appropriately. It's just the water doesn't stay around for very long.

>>11916474
>>11916568
I've traveled across Aus/NZ and Europe and literally never seen a culvert in my life. Never been to NA and never will

>>11917981
No one cares

>>11917983
Yet you care enough to respond to a post in a thread about culverts... curious...

>>11917981
I didn't ask. Being jealous of America makes you sound pathetic.

>>11917981
They are underground in European cities.

>>11918709
Why would anyone ever be jealous of your decaying fascist shithole lmao

L. A and most of California don't reuse storm water so they dump it in the ocean
Rather then send it to a aquarduct somewhere for later use

If you follow that culvert you'll come to a dam and see it's mostly drained adding that there stealing from fresh water sources

>>11916504
Yes it is mostly dry, but it's not a desert and it does rain there. When it does rain the dry ground doesn't suck up the water fast enough so it just runs off, as LA is basically at the bottom of a paint bowl it lends itself to flooding, very bad flooding. These "rivers" are just there to catch all the flood water and they are purposely over built.

>>11916459 (OP)
it isn't dammed, it's rerouted. the old natural course was prone to flooding, so what the city did was dig it a new channel and then encase it in concrete so it was essentially impossible to spill over into the surrounding area.
the LA River is an arroyo, a type of river common in the southwest that's seasonally dry.

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>>11917827
Thanks anons, that was very informative. Pretty cool that playing GTA of all things actually made me learn something about the US climate and geography. A bit weird to think though that LA is so prone to natural disasters, I guess l kind of tend to think of large urban centers as something mostly free from these dangers (hence why they became centers). Especially LA which is home to some of the richest people on Earth.

Very informative thread. Im playing through San Andreas on an emulator and Im having lots of fun. Granted Im save scumming my way through missions I suck at but its such a great game.