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A homeless RV encampment in Las Vegas.
This is interesting. Looks like this neighborhood has its own off-street RV and boat parking. Talk about luxurious lifestyles! In my neighborhood people park their RVs and boats in their front yards. That’s against the law, of course, but there’s no code enforcement around here.
OK, so the big fat clues in this photo are the oil well in the middle of the parking lot and the swimming pool. The pool rules out North Dakota, the trees rule out Kansas, and the oil well rules out Arizona and New Mexico, so I think we’re probably looking at Oklahoma or Texas.
A subdivision in Dallas or Midland, maybe?
L.A. Basin I bet.
Lot with a stripper well and a backyard pool up against it.
Only in L.A. Could be Texas too.
@5 Sure, it could be L.A. Maybe this is the Ma and Pa Kettle family compound in Hollywood Hills, and that oil well paid for the RVs, swimming pool, fancy houses, etc.
The more I think about it, L.A. makes a lot of sense. Look how big the houses are, and how little the yards are — only in L.A. …
@5
You’re warm.
I’m spending *WAY* too much time poring over this:
http://maps.conservation.ca.gov/doms/index.html
If it’s in LA, as I suspect, then it should be on that map – hope it helps somebody.
I’ve got a honeydew list to attend to…good luck!
@9
Yeah, this is a tough one, but someone will find it soon…
These sorts of wells exist in a few areas in the LA Basin. The cluster density of the homes makes it suburbs so the West LA/Beverly Hills section is out. Culver City/Slauson Hills is also fairly dense too, but possible. No, i think this is further south towards Dominquez Hills/Lakewood/Signal Hill area. The lack of other pools, and the fact that those appear to be contiguous residences within gated communities, puts it south of I-10.
Bakersfield.
Just E. of Palm Dr. & Santiago Dr., Placentia, CA: HERE
@9 Liberal Scientist, it was your map that got it. Amazing resource.
Wow. Good Eye. That’s quite an oil field there under Placentia.
This is a real needle in a haystack. Incredible the number of plugged and active producing wells down there hidden among the burbs and even smack in the middle of gated communities.
@13
Nicely done! I will definitely give Liberal Scientist some partial credit for finding that page.
@14
Yeah, I did a double-take when I first saw it. Looked so out of place.
@13 excellent! I’m not sure how this one would have been solved without that resource – the image didn’t seem to really have any identifying clues other than the well.
Glad that it was useful to someone!
I wonder how many people realize Los Angeles sits on top of what once was one of the world’s biggest producing oilfields?
If you zoom in real tight you can see the hose running straight from the oil well to the RV parking lot next to it.
Okay, not really … but it would make some kind of neat logic if it were about a wash, how much comes out of the ground there, and how much is run thru those rigs. The ultimate self-serve.
@18 Large gas-guzzling vehicles are sometimes unfairly maligned. Who uses more gas, a commuter driving 50 miles a day in a compact car getting 25 mpg, or a retiree driving 1,500 miles a year in an RV that gets 10 mpg? The math works out to 500 gallons a year for the compact car vs. 150 gallons for the RV.
I don’t really have a problem with the big pickups that spend most of their time parked in driveways that people use on weekends to haul their stock car to the track, or whatever. Likewise, the soccer mom who drives a big van around the neighborhood picking up and dropping off a load of kids or groceries, but drives only a mile or two a day, doesn’t use a lot of gas or put out very much pollution.
What matters is not so much the size of the vehicle as how much you drive whatever vehicle you use.
@19 Good points. A neighborhood with its own designated RV parking lot (mostly trailers in it, as I look again) is more about conspicuous consumption than day-to-day fuel consumption.