"Kelly’s pool better be underground or covered. Not to mention, a filter system will be required to keep the water liquid or else he’ll be mixing cement."
Thoughts about the new Slater pool in La Quinta.
I’ve designed three weddings on the golf course and incurred the same challenge each day, wind.
Horrific wind hugging the curvature of the mountains and funneling through a green belt that manages a very occasional rain storm.
End result is dust for miles, sand storms.
I built a ceremony arch for one gig and purposely installed it behind the reception tent. Two thoughts, some wind protection and to give the poor photog some back light.
We had to borrow stakes from the lighting company. I sent a kid to Home Depot for some high tensil strength cord. We tied the arch off at 4 stations and I disappeared behind the hotel to cut Trumpet vine to run along the cord.
Next trip, we rented a huge gazebo.
Thought fuck this, something so heavy nothing could blow it down. Concentrated decor on the aisle and base legs of the monster. Was hanging the chandelier in the middle when a gust hit, my twelve-foot ladder fell under me and I clung to the chandelier mechanics while my boys sorted the ladder.
Following trip, I sold NO CEREMONY DECOR. We scheduled the chairs into theatre in the round and called it a day. As fate allows, no wind that particular day so we made a circle of rose petals for the actual ceremony space. Yeah, they curdled in the sun, but the Hippy knows a trick or two about a half and half mix of silk petals.
Point being, Kelly’s pool better be underground or covered. Not to mention, a filter system will be required to keep the water liquid or else he’ll be mixing cement.
I’m not sure why all pools are not in a warehouse or underground. Manage nature as best as you are faking it.
If I’m paying for Kelly’s ranch it better be fucking glassy. As glassy as that same money will buy me a two-week charter in the Ments.
I really think the only way to keep evaporation at a minimum and run without wind issues is by covering the pool. Especially Palm Springs because for five months it’s too hot to be outside anyway.
I could make oodles of money out there, restaurants are sublime, but fuck, it’s like Las Vegas, three days is plenty.
What is beautiful about the desert day one are the same things you find ugly day three.
I just need three dinner reservations and a fat paycheck to make me happy driving back to the beach.
(Editor’s note: The author is actually an event designer not a wedding planner. Fitted the headline better. “It’s a huge distinction of competence from the wedding planners I loathe,” he says. Second, Hippy’s from Santa Babs. Again, makes for a better headline, Palm Springs Wedding Planner etc.)
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what’s with all the Kelly Slater attacks? This wedding planner is a tool lmao.
A colon would have been less Mongol here, I think: “Two thoughts: some wind protection and to give the poor photog some back light.”
And Kelly isn’t going to own the resort deal, KSWCO are just supplying the wave equipment.
Is Palm Desert hotter than Fiji in late January? Hope not.
Shut up retard
Retard rhymes with disbarred.
Second time you slandered me little bitch boy. You’ve made my night once again.
Were you disbarred?
Couple things about Palm Springs. First, on top of being unbearably hot in summer it’s also butt cold for at least two months in winter. 40’s and 50’s Fahrenheit. On the water issue, there is a huge aquifer under the whole Coachella Valley from centuries of snow melt from the surrounding mountains. That why all the golf courses work.
kite surf application. KSWC kite surf wind club
Windsurfing man!!
Wavepool at Lemoore California has an arrangement with PG&E to buy solar energy. The Surf Ranch’s electrical cost of one wave is possibly as high as $25/wave, you will need to afford the freemarket baseline price of $250/wave or more than $6000 for an hour.
Kelly’s competition is from Wet ’n’ Wild Palm Springs Surf Club, Desert Willow Golf Resort (DSRT SURF), and in the future, Kohl Ranch (Thermal Beach Club). He’ll have to keep that machinery running 24/7 if he wants to stay in the artificial wave game. Can’t assume the richest surfers will keep his gravy train running for the long haul. Economy tanks and people won’t burn money as fast as before.
Water use aside, this area is one of the hotter spots in Cali, has recorded triple-digit heat every month from April through October 2020 with highs as much as 118 deg. F. The Coachella Valley and Palm Springs experiences same and higher heat waves. Excessive heat drives up electricity use, rolling blackouts across the state when Stage 3 emergency in Cali implements power disruption programs: turn off and not use major appliances. Hard to have fun in the sun when the grid switch is turned off.
Well, there you have it! We’ll see how the cookie crumbles
And Hippy can design the flowers for the wedding! Chas best man and all commenters invited…. except Brutus.
When you said wedding planner I immediately thought ‘wedding singer’ and then thought…
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry…
Could they put the train outside and just have a boom coming through the wall!?
Fun read and great points. The day 1/day 3 comments had me laughing in agreement. The editor’s note was classic too – that’s part of what makes BG so good. Also, not a shark story which is an extra plus.
That’s a lot of groomsman.
*groomsmen
*groomsemen
you see that new S Korea pool? Insane, and indoors.
Korea pool is not indoors….but they do have plans to heat it in the future! A structure to cover a 8-10 acre lagoon – not ever going to happen. Only standing waves will see indoor venues.
Ah, my bad. Video of it I saw made it appear indoor. Still a sick fake wave.
Yes – it is by far the best public facility in the world now. bigger / longer waves than both Bristol and Melbourne and the bathymetry is way better too. Once they start to heat the water in the winter (which they say they are doing for 2021/21) – it will be incredible!
Where is all the water coming from to fill these wave pools in the desert? Is it being drained/stolen from the Sierra like the City of “Angels”? Water parks in the desert sounds quite environmentally lame unless a subject matter expert can convince me otherwise. Good luck, SME but also please let us know where thems gets the H2O…
climate change, sea level rising, tap off the ocean…save our points n gives the Vals the beachy feel.
Next time I’m forced into talking about my own surfing I may reach out for an Editor’s note to keep a clear conscience.
In the furthest southern grounds of California water rights are NO joke. The never ending battle with evaporation will prove tricky if it should exceed the property’s initial water demand estimates as provided in the building plan
Just build the pool at Crowley Lake. You can shoot Chinatown sequel while you’re at it.
Kelly will cloud seed the chemtrails and make it rain tubes.
“never-ending”
Oh and sorry about how the country is turning blue.
The proles and deplorables are marching with pitchforks and Starbucks cups, but it’s all sound and fury signifying nothing.
Trump can bluster and blather all he wants the next two weeks, but he’ll be out on January 20th, the Senate will be blue and hopefully will go Nuremberg on Trump and his cronies.
Yesterday The Mooch told me personal he thinks Trump will be the first president to go to prison.
Lucky speaks for us all.
Or half of us anyway.
Oh and Tesla hit $771 today.
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Have the ceremony in the barrel. No wind there…
WSL could figure out how to make that look dull,
PS I think we can agree I was on a winning streak (one event in succession)
So what’s to become of my new panda?
Palm Springs Wedding Planner…….hahahhaahahah
As the Fremen say
“Polish comes from the cities ; Wisdom from the desert “
“Back in the day” my grow house in North Park was underground. Huge footprint in a basement, and it helped with external heat signatures.
There you go, pappa–watch out for the powderfinger, though.
1. Pretty sure Itchy Scratchy is from Carp, not SB (though I might be wrong).
2. Personally, I find it odd when an author refers to themselves in the 3rd person (ever more odd when a nickname is used in the 3rd person reference).
3. You might want this pool and development to fail but…….. Get over it, it will work.
God I hope it works. Gimme US residency and I’d buy one of the cheaper joints in the estate.
You could always claim refugee or asylum status. That or I will act as your agent/owner in name, just give me 2 months a year.
BG is that lucrative…?!
Your fine as you’re not from one of the “shithole” countries. But you will have to pay for health insurance to cover any need for boner pills or std cleanup. Also you better hope the cabanas have solar because your AC will be on 24/7 from June through September.
Yup, but this wasn’t written as a post, just an email responding to the thought of building a pond in a wind tunnel. No author. Just anecdotes.
pretty sure hippy is not from carp last time i tried to imagine who he was? but then again carp has become the new venice beach so maybe his Los Angeles designer cred gives him local claims in this town after 4 years of residency either way he seems like a decent dude and he gave my business a little shout in these comments a but back so im claiming hes gotta be cooler than all of the sprinter kooks in the parking lot at the queen living their magical val gidget glory surf cowabunga days.
hippy on hippy.
howzit Jason? its el jupe…..Hippy is cool, you might see him around town there, not the con tho!! I never met him but we chat abit…sends me pics of the good surf I’m missing by being lazy and ancient!!
I’m mostly retired….say hi to your bro and dad for me!! And get that dawn rivermouth spot for me…cito kinda bites it for waves!!
Might not be Carpas but pretty sure he lives there now although I don’t know him. Either way, as someone who grew up in Carp you gotta see that there is not much Carpas left in Carp. Mostly trannies.
I think you’ve lost the right to criticise Chas’ writing after this piece