Wildfires raged across Southern California on Wednesday, leaving at least two people dead and prompting thousands of evacuations as blazes closed in on Los Angeles neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades and residents hurried to escape.
#8 | POSTED BY OCUSER
The blame lies up and down the chain.
State stopped prescribed burns...
State mandated insurance policy caps.
1600 homes in PP sent insurance ending past couple of months.
State of California didn't fill the hydrant reservoir.
State of California doesn't manage excessive brush.
The Fire Department deprioritized Fire Fighting, not enough fire fighter.
LAFD cut budget $20Million
Fire fighters out of water.
Equipment shipped to Ukraine.
Homeless population making fires to keep warm.
Cascading Catastrophy.
In an attempt to debunk Rick Caruso, LA morning anchor Melvin Robert is embarrassingly fact-checked by their own on-the-ground reporter:
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And since we're pointing fingers, republicans have obstructed and stonewalled every effort to improve our energy-grid and build resilience to natural disasters for decades.
#13 | POSTED BY HORSTNGRABEN
Not in CA. PGE and Edison have raised rates to astronomical levels to do mitigation, still nothing changed.
I will put that on my list of things to keep track of. I'm really curious where this "faucet" is located.
The State sends trillons of gallons of water to the see.
California's rain bounty slips into the ocean and drought-shocked Central Valley farmers want an explanation
95 percent of the water that collected in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has been flushed out to sea, leaving frustrated farmers with lots of questions.
www.turnto23.com
I swear DialAgain you really don't know how to do a search.
Los Angeles mayor slashed fire department budget months ago. Because, well, fires in CA are so rare.
@#16 ... The State sends trillons of gallons of water to the see. ...
The article seems to indicate that the tecent trillions of gallons of water is not a routine thing.
So, if California had spent tens of millions of dollars to build reservoirs to pool that non-routine water event, my guess is that your current alias would likely be criticizing California for wasting money.
In a similar situation ...
Decades of groundwater depletion mean hard choices ahead for states (2022)
csgmidwest.org
... On a recent visit to the western Kansas town of Garden City, Burke Griggs asked local leaders a question that may have first sounded like a joke. "Where do you plan on moving Garden City in 50 years?" asked Griggs, a leading expert on water law.
He was deadly serious, though, about a problem that the Washburn School of Law professor says a growing number of communities will face in the coming years and decades without shifts in how the state manages, allocates and conserves its resources, particularly groundwater. ...
The hits just keep coming ...
"Apparently L.A. City didn't want to pay for the larger, water-load Fire Hawks that L.A Co Fire operates at the outset of the Palisades fire and didn't call for the heavy water droppers until the fire was out of control. Opted for L.A. City helicopters that aren't as capable of large water drops."
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@#21 ... Eight years after California voters approved a $7.5 billion water bond to construct water storage facilities, not one project has reached completion. ...
California Passes Multi-Billion-Dollar Bond to Build a More Resilient Water System (2014)
www.ucsusa.org
... California voters yesterday approved a $7.5 billion water bond (Proposition 1), which will fund expanded water storage, water treatment and recycling projects as well as the restoration of diminished waterways.
The measure was passed during a record drought that has highlighted the weaknesses of California's current water management system and the need to prepare for drier conditions in the future.
A total of $2.7 billion of the bond funds is dedicated to finance new water storage projects such as dams, reservoirs or replenishing groundwater reserves. Over the coming months, the California Water Commission will closely examine scientific evidence and economic factors to determine what types of storage projects provide the greatest "public benefit." ...
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Three Years on, How California Is Spending Its $7.5 Billion Water Bond (2017)
deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org
... They found that about 80 percent of the proposition's money has been appropriated, and they broke down the funding in a recent PPIC blog post. ... [good graphic in the article]
In 2014 Californians approved Proposition 1. Ellen Hanak at the Public Policy Institute of California breaks down how much of that $7.5 billion has been appropriated so far and what that means for future water spending.
Three years ago, California voters passed Proposition 1, a bond that provided $7.12 billion for water projects and reallocated another $425 million. The funds had to be split among seven categories: safe drinking water, water storage, flood management, water recycling, drought preparedness, ecosystem and watershed protection and groundwater sustainability.
Ellen Hanak and Jelena Jezdimirovic at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) dove into the numbers to see how the proposition money has been spent throughout the state.
They found that about 80 percent of the proposition's money has been appropriated, and they broke down the funding in a recent PPIC blog post.
(Courtesy of the PPIC)
Water Deeply spoke with Hanak, director of the PPIC Water Policy Center, about the Proposition 1 funding, what it tells us about water projects in California and about legislative priorities in 2018.
Water Deeply: How does this rate of spending compare to past water bond spending?
Ellen Hanak, director of the PPIC Water Policy Center, has been studying the appropriation of money for California's 2014 water bond. (Courtesy of the PPIC)
Ellen Hanak: This is about the typical pace of spending. Sometimes we'd like to see the money get out the door quicker or get frustrated that a bond passes and it doesn't get all spent right away, but there is a whole process within each category to develop the specific details. And then when the calls go out, people have a bit of time to respond, there's a judging process, an awards process and that doesn't all happen overnight. ...
Yeah, I guess my first question would be ... does this Act apply to Los Angeles, or the more northern areas of California?
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