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Jim3k
07-29-2014, 11:22 PM
It's not Duke basketball, so I'm posting it here.

A 30 inch water main has burst next to the UCLA campus (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-flooding-on-sunset-near-ucla-20140729-story.html), flooding both Pauley Pavilion and Drake Stadium.

Maybe this could go with a discussion of why Southern California can't be trusted with water sources. Just a few days ago California ordered all kinds of water conservation measures and then this happens. L.A. was already under scrutiny for failing to conserve water. Now this. And it damages one of college basketball's iconic venues.

Jim3k
07-30-2014, 12:28 AM
I think this pic shows Pauley's ruination.

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/494280588023455745/photo/1

h/t JA

sue71, esq
07-30-2014, 12:32 AM
I read earlier that the pipe dates back to 1921. Oy.

sue71, esq
07-30-2014, 02:40 AM
Buzzfeed has a good collection of pics & videos of the flood. All I keep thinking is about the Pauley renovation. That, and we probably jumped about 3 levels on the drought scale. Ugh.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/austinhunt/ucla-gets-wet

Jarhead
07-30-2014, 06:56 AM
Doesn't this belong on the EK board?

OldPhiKap
07-30-2014, 07:06 AM
Sad to see.

uh_no
07-30-2014, 09:45 AM
I read earlier that the pipe dates back to 1921. Oy.

the older of the two new york water mains dates to 1917 (and the newer is 1935)

superdave
07-30-2014, 09:59 AM
That stinks. Maybe they can salvage the floor enough to sell pieces off to pay for the new one.

Any word on whether locker rooms or other finished rooms fared?

cspan37421
07-30-2014, 02:36 PM
Any chance they'll truck in some sand and thus create Pauley Shore?

hurleyfor3
07-30-2014, 02:44 PM
Any chance they'll truck in some sand and thus create Pauley Shore?

Or have to cancel scheduled events there, invoking the Pauley Exclusion Principle?

tommy
07-30-2014, 02:53 PM
Or the on-campus visit to UCLA of highly recruited Georgia wing player Jaylen Brown, who was due to visit UCLA's campus this coming Tuesday, and who Duke has also shown interest in, and who is said to be looking to make an early commitment . . .

Henderson
07-30-2014, 05:25 PM
Gotta be Donald Sterling's fault.

tommy
07-30-2014, 06:49 PM
What would Bill Walton say?

"Three hours to turn off a water spigot? You call that emergency response?
Come on. This is Pauley Pavillion, the John Wooden Center, the UCLA Hall of
Fame, repository of all the treasured artifacts from Coach Wooden and the
greatest program in the history of college sports. And they allow all of it to
be desecrated because they couldn't turn off a faucet? That's disgraceful."

Henderson
07-30-2014, 06:56 PM
What would Bill Walton say?


"I'll hold the length of bamboo on this end, and you put business end on the other."

PSurprise
07-30-2014, 07:03 PM
What would Bill Walton say?

"Well I guess they'll need to move all the games to Colorado..."

Dev11
07-30-2014, 07:20 PM
What would Bill Walton say?

"Three hours to turn off a water spigot? You call that emergency response?
Come on. This is Pauley Pavillion, the John Wooden Center, the UCLA Hall of
Fame, repository of all the treasured artifacts from Coach Wooden and the
greatest program in the history of college sports. And they allow all of it to
be desecrated because they couldn't turn off a faucet? That's disgraceful."

"The Dead played a spectacular, stupendous, magical affair at college basketball's center of excellence on November 17, 1973. The setlist was full of wonder, and the crowd was brought to new heights during a particularly heavenly Playin'> Uncle John's> Dew> Uncle John's> Playin' extended rendition during the second set. Remember, Dave?"

Now that I've bothered to look it up, I suppose I should give it a listen.

OldPhiKap
07-30-2014, 08:09 PM
What would Bill Walton say?


If all you've got to live for
Is what you left behind,
Get yourself a powder charge
And seal that silver mine . . . .

tommy
07-30-2014, 10:45 PM
"The Dead played a spectacular, stupendous, magical affair at college basketball's center of excellence on November 17, 1973. The setlist was full of wonder, and the crowd was brought to new heights during a particularly heavenly Playin'> Uncle John's> Dew> Uncle John's> Playin' extended rendition during the second set. Remember, Dave?"

Now that I've bothered to look it up, I suppose I should give it a listen.

That it awesome. Wish I could've sporked you. :o

Mike Corey
07-30-2014, 11:05 PM
What would Bill Walton say?

"Three hours to turn off a water spigot? You call that emergency response?
Come on. This is Pauley Pavillion, the John Wooden Center, the UCLA Hall of
Fame, repository of all the treasured artifacts from Coach Wooden and the
greatest program in the history of college sports. And they allow all of it to
be desecrated because they couldn't turn off a faucet? That's disgraceful."

Punctuated with, "Turn it off, big fella."

burnspbesq
07-30-2014, 11:21 PM
Punctuated with, "Turn it off, big fella."

Or the Rafterian "Send it in, DWP!"

Jim3k
07-31-2014, 02:33 AM
That stinks. Maybe they can salvage the floor enough to sell pieces off to pay for the new one.

Any word on whether locker rooms or other finished rooms fared?


LA Times article on damage assessment (http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-ucla-guerrero-flooding-20140730-story.html). Locker rooms did get hit, but it looks like the main damage was to the court which will have to be replaced. The rest of it seems relatively easy.

miramar
07-31-2014, 08:29 AM
LA Times article on damage assessment (http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-ucla-guerrero-flooding-20140730-story.html). Locker rooms did get hit, but it looks like the main damage was to the court which will have to be replaced. The rest of it seems relatively easy.

If AD Dan Guerrero has any sense, which he probably doesn't, he will take the insurance money and finally move the students just behind the basket so that can start intimidating opponents (assuming the students actually show up). Perhaps in the days of Walt Hazzard, Lew Alcindor, Sidney Wicks, and Bill Walton it didn't matter that they were fifty feet away, but this year UCLA will have one national championship in the last forty seasons.

camion
07-31-2014, 09:24 AM
The Duke Curse!! There's no escaping it.

It's been eating away at those pipes for four decades.