The boats also became instant pumping stations, sending thousands of gallons of river water through massive hoses that fed fire trucks on the ground several blocks away, which then shot the water onto flames around the World Trade Center area to try to contain the spread of fire.
One example: Brighten clouds by blasting them with seawater in massive hoses.
It went from a massive fire hose of incredible work -- lots and lots and lots of money to spend on branding and events and really pushing the envelope -- to a complete turnoff.
It was liquid only because it had become a branch office of the New York Fed! Absent the cash being injected by the Fed's multiple and massive fire hoses, Morgan Stanley would have been deeply illiquid.
Andrew Studer was admiring a massive lava fire hose at Hawaii Volcanoes national park when he spotted something unusual: a small quadcopter drone flying very close to the natural wonder pouring hot molten rock.
He popped the hood, and they all leaned in for a better look at the massive corrosion, the split hoses, what the garage guy called a cracked block.
And like an enormous high-pressure fire hose, the water moved massive amounts of rock and left scars in the bedrock of four states.
Some have called the XMPP feed the "fire hose," because it sends out a massive amount of data quickly, as opposed to importing a feed by way of RSS, which is limited and slow.
It's a fire hose of correspondence, but stepping back a bit from the massive electronic corpus, it strikes me that virtually all of it falls into one of four categories.
For his drawing series "A Land Reform," Restrepo creates three massive drawings, each containing a deranged map of cartoons, newspaper clippings, red hoses that resemble spurting veins and that wonderfully sickening shade of pink.
