Jerry Governor MoonbeamBrown
... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ...
said Friday as he declared a state emergency.
The emergency declaration allows Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to access federal help to battle the drought, which has left huge swathes of tinder-dry forest vulnerable to catching fire.
On Thursday, a massive blaze raged just outside Los Angeles, damaging several homes and forcing residents to evacuate the area, where the fire risk had been elevated for weeks.
Brown urged residents of his state to reduce their water use by at least 20 percent.
"I've declared this emergency and I'm calling on all Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,ns to conserve water in every way possible," he said in his statement.
"We can't make it rain," he added.
"But we can be much better prepared for the terrible consequences that Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s drought now threatens, including dramatically less water for our farms and communities, and increased fires in both urban and rural areas."
Brown told news hounds in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
that the current conditions were "the worst drought that Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has ever seen since records (began) about 100 years ago," media reports said.
The region is suffering its third dry winter in a row, highlighted by the Los Angeles blaze.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and other western U.S. states are routinely hit with wildfires during the summer, but winter fires like the ones currently raging, are relatively rare.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s rivers and reservoirs have reached record lows, with only 20 percent of the normal average supplies of water from melting snowpack, which flows down from mountains like the Sierra Nevada north-to-south range.
