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Opinion California on fire


Parts of Southern California see nearly a foot of rain, record-setting totals


Devastating': California had record rainfall last year, but lacked infrastructure to store it

Water and energy policy expert pushes back against Gov Gavin Newsom's wildfire rhetoric: 'It's all political'

California does not have a water shortage, yet firefighters battling the brutal fires across Los Angeles are facing scarce resources to keep up with the blaze that has threatened thousands of lives, homes, land and wildlife.

Meanwhile, critics challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call to "not play politics," arguing that political mismanagement is precisely to blame.

"It's all political," Edward Ring, the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center think-tank, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "The entire cause is political, and they ironically politicize it by saying it's about climate change, which is a political wedge that they use all the time, which is really one of the least of the factors causing this."

Experts lay blame primarily on the state's handling of its forestry management and a lesser-known problem, the state's outdated water reserves system. California's existing reservoirs can only hold so much water, and many were built in the mid-20th century.

Last year, the state experienced record-breaking rainfall after an atmospheric river event, but the existing water infrastructure faced difficulties managing the sudden influx of water. A significant portion of that rainfall was dumped into the ocean.

Ring also pointed to "environmentalist extremists" in the state who have pushed for heavier regulations like the Endangered Species Act, which requires freshwater to flow through rivers and into the Pacific Ocean to protect the endangered delta smelt and salmon. The mandates restrict how much water can be diverted to storage, even during wet years.

California has record amounts of rainfall in few two years but won't collect due to mismanagement.
 
Why are you defending the ineptness when Fire Fighters refute what you are saying? The budget cuts are public. They cut the budget and were warned of impending threat by the Chief of LAFD. All public. The hydrants weren't checked or serviced. Too many firefighting trucks and equipment were unusable due to no mechanics because of said budget cuts. All public. Areas with no firefighters at all due to the budget cuts. No pre prep in a known threat area....due to ineptness of leadership. Issues with reservoirs being repaired DURING the highest threat. Not to mention needing Canadian CL415's to pick up the seawater to help with the fires. Why doesn't LA have those? Because liberal leadership spent 2m on DEI and 30m towards migrant homeless. This is all public and can't be refuted. No evac plan, no coordination between first responders is on leadership as well. The Mayor and Chief need to be held accountable. But honestly it weighs very heavy on Asshole Newsome....He is such a fucktard. His interviews are strange, he lies about being on the phone with the President. He is the new face of failure.
You are wasting your time. You can't reason with the mentally ill.
 
Joe Rogan talked about the inevitability of these fires 6 months before.

The predictions (Not Joe's) of specifically scheduled pre-court time to destroy evidence by burning defendent's home and locations time-stamped before the fires.​

Soon came Newsome's set up with years of perfectly crafted conditions for NWO arson, Hawaii style.
One of Diddler's many taped jailhouse phone calls commanded his minion to "Get Rid of Those "Pizza Boxes".

Ohio Players' song (No Land Grab Connection).


 

Leftists are evil so they assume everyone else is as well.

It's just so amazing to me at how old that person is. That person has seen non-insane governance in her time, and she still chooses to act like a braindead edgy Gen Z-er. I expect that shit from 20 year-olds, not 50 year-olds. I'm starting to think that a LOT of older Liberals are just life long losers trying to fit in.
 
So he lied about being on the phone and to who lol ... What a pos


 
I saw this interview he ran against the dumbass mayor of LA and lost.


40 yr old vegetation .. .





 
@MacGregor
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It’s been your postings. You were the one making a thing out of Californians still voting blue. Then without even being promoted wrote a whole story about how mad you were at Ted Cruz for failing you. Yet we both know you voted for him and not the democrat that he ran against when he was up for reelection, didn’t you? You have the gal yo accuse me of partisan hackery and write that shit?

It’s not lost in me that you avoided the Houston topic altogether either.
I think most vote on the agenda of the party and will usually stick to it unless let's say a very conservative democrat decides to run.
 
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