Trump’s Everglades Prison Can’t Even Withstand a Routine Rainstorm. Ron DeSantis Wants to Open It Anyway.

Fate has not been kind to Ron DeSantis ever since the Florida governor Beat the Pandemic and decided to run for president despite being one of the biggest meatheads in the history of the U.S. Congress. Iowa ate him alive, and the president ate up the leftovers, and now he’s back sitting by the tracks, waving, as the Trump train goes whistling by on its mission to throw the old republic under its wheels.

Now, this week, he got to host the president at his latest pride and joy—the open-air Everglades concentration camp with the cute nickname which I will not use for six million damn good reasons. Then, it rained. From the Miami Herald:

Shortly after President Donald Trump left the brand new detention facility to hold immigrants in the middle of the Everglades, a garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm started.

The water seeped into the site—the one that earlier in day the state’s top emergency chief had boasted was ready to withstand the winds of a “high-end” Category 2 hurricane—and streamed all over electrical cables on the floor.

“For those people that don’t think we’re taking that into consideration. This is Florida, by the way,” Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, had told reporters earlier in the middle of Trump’s visit. “We have a hurricane plan.”

But perhaps not a plan for about an inch-and-a-half of rain, which is what fell over the site on Tuesday afternoon, according to estimates from the National Weather Service in Miami.

They built this horror in about eleven minutes. Small wonder that it’s a sieve. I eagerly await the first video of an alligator and a python fighting over an MRE in the middle of the compound. And, not for nothing, but I commend the Herald team for treating this fiasco with an appropriate amount of sarcasm.

Rainfall seeped through the edges of the facility as the roofs and walls trembled. Drips leaked from above a door frame. The water spread under poles hoisting the Florida and U.S. flags.

On Wednesday, the division of emergency management said contractors had worked on the flooding issue.

“Overnight, the vendors went back and tightened any seams at the base of the structures that allowed water intrusion during the heavy storm, which was minimal,” Stephanie Hartman, the deputy director of communications for the division of emergency management said in a statement.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he hoped detainees could arrive at Alligator Alcatraz as early as Wednesday.

Meathead.