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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Gov. Jerry Brown Asks Trump For Fed Funds To Clean Up Storm Damage
2017-02-14
[DAILYCALLER] Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown
... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ...
 asked President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 for federal funds Friday night to clean up damage a series of deadly storms cused last month that helped end Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s long drought.

Brown is asking the White House for $162 million in federal aid to contend with storms that caused flash floods, power outages, and damage to various state-funded projects.

An "atmospheric river storm system" that unleashed days of "relentless heavy precipitation" caused the damage, the California Democrat wrote in a letter to Trump.

"The impacts associated with this series of storms were substantial and widespread, devastating much of California," the letter reads.

Brown declared a state of emergency Jan. 23 in 49 counties of California’s 58 counties. He added three more counties to that tally Friday: Amador, Mono and Riverside.
Posted by:Fred

#20  The same Jerry Brown who in May 2016 declared permanent drought measures?
Posted by: Jack Salami   2017-02-14 20:35  

#19  There's gold in that thar reservoir.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-02-14 19:17  

#18  mandatory evac notice ended a few minutes ago
Posted by: lord garth   2017-02-14 17:50  

#17  I watched Brown on the local KCRA feed of the presser about the status of the dam. He actually said he was confident about federal support because ..."we're all Americans here". Even by Jery cluelessness standards after of years of seeing him in conferences as AG, he is a true piece of work.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-02-14 16:25  

#16  #14 The stupid train was passed by voters, I'm not sure what meanboom could have done

true, but there were statutory obligations in the Voter Proposition (no public subsidies to operations, adequate ridership #s, private investment before future phases could go forward, 2 hr LA to SF trip, etc....) and the CA Dems AND MOONBEAM hisself are violating the law and intent of the Proposition. If put up for a re-vote, I'd hope the voters would see how they were lied to and revolt. That's the effort now, hence they are spending money as fast as possible to build facts on the ground even though it goes from nowhere to nowhere in the Central Valley. *SPIT*
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-14 14:58  

#15  Yes, siphon it out in a thousand places. Should come naturally to the California govt.
Posted by: KBK   2017-02-14 13:50  

#14  The stupid train was passed by voters, I'm not sure what meanboom could have done.

The dam and other issues though are on him. While Southern California took the draught seriously and built cisterns to capture rain so it could be used later Northern California did nothing, not even invest in maintaining the infrastructure they already had.

So many fools invested in the drought caused by global warming they forgot that California has El Nino (tons of rain) and La Nina (drought) all the time. Preparing for a very regularly reoccurring event is not rocket science.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-02-14 13:47  

#13  this will go to the dpt of homeland safety

for the Prez to declare it a Major Disaster, requires a finding that the State is unable to deal with the disaster by itself

it seems to me that DHS should require the Gov to make this 'unable by itself' statement publically before the Declaration

Posted by: lord garth   2017-02-14 13:09  

#12  I saw that yesterday there was the suggestion of using fire pumpers as an auxiliary to the spillway. I hope somebody in the circle at least thought of that. Some considerations:

Lake water is dirty and will chew up the equipment. Even if a siphon is set up, that is hundreds of feet of hose, plus filters on the lake end, have to watch the pressures. Tommy Lee Jones could pull it off, but so far I am not seeing the logistics planning to pull it off; replace hoses, food and water for the workers, gasoline for pumps, so forth. Stockpiling should have begun a couple weeks ago.

I like the thinking. I think I saw another 4" is expected?

Hey, how about a shitpot of them concrete tubes, make an crappy aquaduct instead of dumping a bunch of rock?

This is why we check the air pressure on the spare a couple times a year, and especially before a road trip...on the side of the road is too late.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-02-14 12:17  

#11  Another point.. Current basin that formed the lake was one of the main gold mining areas. If this puppy blows ... lots of gold could be exposed or washed down river.
Posted by: 3dc   2017-02-14 11:46  

#10  The Dam about to break on the cover of a 2013 FEMA dam safety brochure: HERE
Posted by: 3dc   2017-02-14 10:33  

#9   A great article on the dam. Article pointed out by Frank

From another article by the same guy: ". Anyone in Dam Safety knows that an emergency spillway is not the same as a forest. An emergency spillway should be a grassed, even slope. No woody vegetation should be in the spillway. Part of the emergency spillway was cleared only days before it had to be used, leaving the worst possible surface to receive flow, loose soil. That is simply ridiculous."
Posted by: 3dc   2017-02-14 09:47  

#8  As an aside, that picture of Moonbeam and Linda Ronstadt makes me feel sad. She used to be so cute, before she went insane.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-02-14 09:43  

#7  From one of Frank's articles: "FEMA has a booklet on emergency planning for dams. On it's cover is a picture of a large earthen dam. It is the Oroville Dam."
Posted by: 3dc   2017-02-14 09:41  

#6  An "atmospheric river storm system" that unleashed days of "relentless heavy precipitation" caused the damage, the California Democrat wrote in a letter to Trump.

tl;dr: "It rained a lot. Send money."
Posted by: SteveS   2017-02-14 09:10  

#5  Fuck off moonbeam. You helped create this mess by funding illegals and your liberal butt buddies slush funds.

Go ride a high speed train to hell.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-02-14 08:29  

#4  Beso, that would be the proper response but I doubt that it will be that.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-02-14 07:51  

#3  Need money? Dam breaking? Baby needs shoes? Too damn bad you spent $54 billion on a Bullet Train to nowhere.

Sorry we can't help, we're running a little short.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-14 01:01  

#2  Asking for Federal funds for disasters he created while giving multi million dollar pensions to idiot bureaucrats and funding his idiot choo choo train.

He is a stupid turd. A useless turd. Like all liberals in charge.

Posted by: newc   2017-02-14 00:52  

#1  Flushing the swampland.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-02-14 00:32  

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