Lake Hodges

You're bigger than any circumstance that threatens to defeat you.

All of these sayings, they don't mean as much when you're not going through an adversity, right? But then you go through it and you're like, Ooh, cause really, You know, I just had someone come into Paradise and there's this lake near, not far from here, Lake Hodges.

They had to train it to work on the dam.

And it's been low for a while.

In real life.

near a reservoir just north of San Diego called Lake Hodges.

The combatants are ants.

Argentine ants, to be specific.

Quebec, Felipe Grullo won the 160K in 1842, and then Anne Champagne in 2113.

Additional events that took place were the Silver Falls, the Ghost Train Trail Races, the URA 100K 100 mile, the Pumpkin Holler 100, and Lake Hodges Trail Fest.

So those are some of the ultra results for those of you that are fans of the sport

over the

scenarios.

15 million Argentinian ants died in six months along a super colony border near Lake Hodges and a researcher compared it to World War...

Stop it.

World War I trench warfare.

Well, one of them had an Axis of Evil.

There's bad guys.

And so I guess there was all around Lake Hodges.

So really the total isn't just the one Argentinian battle.

You'll have to look at your Ultra-Sign up.

Was it the Lake Hodges Trail Fest?

Yeah, it was Lake Hodges.

[laughs]

Okay.

So I know you said that was completely different than Pikes, you, it was Pikes Peak Marathon, which is obviously mountainous, right?

Oh, yeah.

But it sounds like Lake Hodges-

And then of those, there are 403 that have the fatal pair, a condition rating of unsatisfactory indicating that, quote, "A dam safety deficiency is recognized that requires immediate or emergency remedial action for problem resolution," along with a hazard rating of high, meaning in the event of failure, one or more fatalities is not only possible but probable.

Each of these 403 is in a situation like Lake Hodges Dam in San Diego, California.

Here, the more than century-old structure is quite literally cracking and crumbling, while also threatened by a known lack of adequate spillway capacity for the maximum probable flood scenario.

If the structure were to fail, it'd take less than two hours for this entire swath of land to get inundated with water as much as 23 feet or seven meters deep, leaving dangerously little evacuation time for the thousands of individuals living on both banks of the San Dieguito River, informing the regulators' belief of the inevitability of fatality.

Yeah.

Well, and ceanothus, I think they're beautiful, uh, and especially up by Lake Hodges when you see them in bloom in spring.

I think they're h- really tough to grow though, and, and I lose half of all of them I put in.

Yeah, it's one of-