California Aqueduct
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Cited by Hoynes with stark stats—25 million acre-feet, eight trillion gallons—to Candy as Toby enters, capping flood talk and contrasting natural crisis scale with incoming man-made oil policy fray, humanizing VP's command amid chaos.
Evoked as throbbing engineering behemoth fueling deluge urgency
Referential anchor bridging crises
Monument to uncontrollable forces mirroring political torrents
California Aqueduct invoked by Hoynes as crisis centerpiece—twice Pennsylvania's length, surging 25 million acre-feet (eight trillion gallons) from snowmelt—its colossal scale wielded to dismantle flood prediction critiques, elevating VP's gravitas before oil pivot.
Evokes uncontrollable natural fury through stats
Referenced engineering marvel in expertise demonstration
Represents predictive hubris crushed by elemental power
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In the Mural Room, Vice President Hoynes poses for photos with quilt-holding senior citizens amid a flooding crisis. He deftly challenges a reporter on predictive failures—snowmelt from three months prior, …
In the Mural Room, amid fading chatter from a flooding discussion, Toby confronts Vice President Hoynes over Philip Sluman's accusations linking White House emissions policies to soaring gas prices, firmly …