Have we ruled out the simple answer first? Hydrant flushing would be a pretty reasonable explanation of what I'm looking at here. [EtA: Add in that there's no Hydrant in sight for either pic and it fits with one being flushed and someone framing their pics deliberately.]
Yes but if the Potomac is high why would you flush the hydrants. Even if it wasn’t wouldn’t spring be a bad time to do that since DC is literally sitting in a swamp?
That could very well be a valid point. I'm not aware of standard procedure in an area where the watershed is effected by a large river/body of water (or primarily correlated as in this case). Not seeing a hydrant in either shot got me really skeptical, as that was my go-to self-debunk.
Have we ruled out the simple answer first? Hydrant flushing would be a pretty reasonable explanation of what I'm looking at here. [EtA: Add in that there's no Hydrant in sight for either pic and it fits with one being flushed and someone framing their pics deliberately.]
You win the grounded logic award. And an updoot.
Automated hydrant flushers. https://www.dcwater.com/projects/automated-hydrant-flushing-devices
My thought, this is what an open hydrant or broken main would let out.
But the cops didn't know where it was coming from.
Yes but if the Potomac is high why would you flush the hydrants. Even if it wasn’t wouldn’t spring be a bad time to do that since DC is literally sitting in a swamp?
That could very well be a valid point. I'm not aware of standard procedure in an area where the watershed is effected by a large river/body of water (or primarily correlated as in this case). Not seeing a hydrant in either shot got me really skeptical, as that was my go-to self-debunk.