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A Drought of Sanity in California

2017-01-13

The ink was hardly dry on the Secretarial Order from Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell blaming California’s drought on global warming when rain and snow swept across the state. San Francisco International Airport was forced to cancel flights and there were blizzard warnings for Lake Tahoe.
Face it. He is not happy with you.
The Los Angeles Times warned breathlessly of a winter war footing. San Francisco, the home of a million companies cashing in on environmental panics, received 130% of average rainfall. Sacramento, where terrible ideas from San Francisco go to become law under a Democratic supermajority, is at 160%.

Governor Jerry Brown had signed an executive order last year making temporary drought restrictions all but permanent. "Drought is becoming a regular occurrence," Executive Order B-37-16 stated. Then the proposal to "Make Conservation a California Way of Life" had made a big splash among bureaucrats.
When the ruling class becomes that detached from reality...

Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#4 The El Nino, La Nina pattern of dumping tons of water for 3-7 years and then leaving us in drought for 3-7 years was known when I was a kid. I have to imagine this was intentionally forgotten for 'religious' reasons.

If we had proper government we would have built cisterns to hold extra water so it didn't just run off into the Pacific when things were dry, and reinforced the levees and such against the big rains that we now are gonna come. Instead we have clowns who take advantage of the voters short memory and gullibility.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-01-13 22:34

#3 California really hasn't done much at all for infrastructure since the 1960s. Just look at how jammed the freeways are. But it ins't just the freeways. If you're really brave go to a hospital emergency room. And if you're really really brave wander through the hallways of one of our high schools. Water is but one example.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-01-13 12:37

#2 As Victor David Hanson has often said, if California had concentrated on building reservoirs, rather than dumping water into the ocean to save the delta smelt, they would not be in this situation.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-01-13 11:25

#1 another big rain/snow storm expected by middle of next week in Calf.

Posted by: lord garth 2017-01-13 10:21

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