Totally Essential

Not 100% but the way the brackets are layed out is how they fall into the CWS bracket. Seems as if we will be the second day as we are on the bottom side of the bracket. Top side is games one and two on day one. Bottom side is 3 and 4 on day 2 rinse and repeat

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Cops just need to tell people to roll their back windows down on a stop. I'm sure that's racist according to some groups.

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Problem is this isn’t the reason for the law and all the “officer safety” is just a wives tale. It’s a secondary law on the books to be able to get money when needed in the way of a “safety stop” or a reason to pull someone over if they haven’t given them a reason. Nothing to do officer safety not operating safety. Just BS excuses. Same with inspection stickers. They are BS money grab. Just add that 20 to my registration renewal because you need the revenue or just outright say it’s for parishes to generate money and quit Hiding behind safety.

She looks like she would suck the skin off of it, then go cut your grass, and then make you a mean gumbo after.

I bet if white people were taking pictures in front of it while it was being demolished laughing and putting it on social media like was done for Nottaway, you’d have non stop coverage

Have all the victims of slavery shown up yet taking selfies infront of it yelling “burn it down” because “my ancestors built this”

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I get it would have cost a lot of money amd took away from the originality of the building. But I would have thought something as valuable as the most iconic plantation in the country would have sprinkler system installed.

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Actually I don’t think it would have taken Away from the originality of it. They can be concealed and/or painted to blend in. Possibly noticeable however it’s a form of protection and not building a wall out of laminate tiles. It could be looked past and very un noticeable.

As far as cost. Depending on when and what was needed, would not have been horrible if the city water supply feeding them or in the vicinity, that they could have a dedicated tie in was adequate. As I stated prior, and I don’t know for a fact, but I can almost guarantee that the other, newer facilities on site have sprinkler and suppression protection as it would be required for occupancy on what they are fulfilling. Main house was prob grandfathered in and didn’t meet the occupancy standards for the state to require a sprinkler and/or fire alarm system when they did upgrades.

50 psi of supply is more than enough for a general wet pipe sprinkler system to all those structures. Again, keep in mind that these systems aren’t intended or designed to all dump at the same time nor all outlets flow at the same time. It’s calculated on a max number of heads for how long. It’s a strategic analysis. The final images that you see of the rotunda in flames, no sprinkler system would put that out. That's not the situation sprinkler systems are designed for.

As someone else mentioned, if supply was the issue, they could dig a pond and have fire pumps to assist supply in the event of an emergency. My guess and my bet is that this is just another one of those situations where the city infrastructure deteriorates over the years. Neglected, and never given the attention it needs. The other systems were installed on the property and when they were installed, demand was there. Through time those lines started to fail/break down and there was no maintenance done on the city infrastructure leading to the facility. I’m also willing to bet that the one hydrant in the vacunity hadn’t been inspected or flowed with c factor testing let alone gpm data in years.

And lastly yes. Once it’s in your yard it’s on you. Plantations, which seem lavish, seem money makers, operate on slim margins and most money comes from elsewhere. A sprinkler system with ponds and pumps would seem like a no brainer but coming up with 2.5 mil plus for that just incase is hard. I mean the bld has been standing almost 200 years. What is our risk assessment for that when we don’t have it.

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Hell…the river is 15 feet from the top of the levee. Run a couple hundred feet of hose over and start pumping. The water pressure thing has to be a joke, right?

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Not that easy to do. You can’t just drop a hose in the river and start pumping. It has to be hard drafting hose and most trucks, don’t have that capacity or very little if they do. Trucks that came in from other municipalities that are inner city prob have none. They would have to get the truck (s) on top the levy to draft and then pump from there via supply hose to the other trucks. The other factor that would be a hinderance is all the shite in the water. Drafting hoses would have a screen as well as screens on intakes but they would probably clog fast and often. You’d be fighting that more than the fire

Not sure about the pressure situation as well as the supply for that area but I’m sure it’s not unlimited. Figure a min 750 gpm pump per truck and the ladders are prob much larger. If you are using 20k gpm, I’m sure the supply can’t keep up for 4 hrs.

Also as far as sprinklers go, a 3” line is def large enough for sprinkler systems. A system that would be designed for that house would be a wet pipe system and have a design and flow calculations of so many heads flowing at one time but that’s considered worse case scenario. Those systems aren’t like you see in the movies where you have a fire and every head dumps water through the whole system. They are heat activated and will activate when a temp is met on that head. The method behind them are to stop a fire in the smaller stage in a smaller area so it won’t spread. 50# of pressure flowing through a .15” hole will def put out some water and is adequate.

I’d be shocked if the cabins and restaurant etc didnt have sprinklers and alarm systems.