.MaddowBlog: The border wall is 'virtually impenetrable,' except when confronted with readily available power tools, wind, and rain.
at the time that there were wind gusts in the area"as high as 37 mph." Those aren't exactly hurricane-like conditions.)Several metal flood gates in the newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in easternmost Arizona were ripped off their hinges last week by flooding from heavy monsoon rains.
The gates apparently had to be opened anyway to prevent debris from building up, and then rain did additional damage to the structure. Or put another way, when Trump described the wall as"virtually impenetrable," he neglected to mention the power of readily available power tools, wind, and rain.
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