Its worse than that, 8yrs ago State voted to build more reservoirs, none have been built but money has been allocated.

Waste of money when you can just use Lewzer's Giant Faucet. Colombia River flow rate averages a quarter million gallons per minute. That will get those hydrants filled up in no time.

You sure?

Yes.

...or does the state have obvious deficiencies that should and can be addressed and fixed?

Or will Lewzer's Giant Faucet fix it all in a couple of weeks?

This bears repeating as it hasn't been even commented upon

We do controlled burns here as well. They are tricky and potentially dangerous. And there ain't much here in the way of populated areas to worry about.

Typically if a wildfire starts in a remote area they just let it burn. Sometimes that goes bad later. Deliberate controlled burns are typically used to firebreak an existing fire that threatens something expensive.

Trump is stupid according to his niece

Profoundly, abjectly stupid according to Ann Coulter.

One thing I find most curious in the unfortunate LA fires, is how the GOP seems to be backing away from the problem they may have caused.

I'm more curious why they are not cheering on Lewzer's Giant Faucet that will fix everything. Water for firefighting, water for farmers? Huge win!

I can only conclude that they want California to fail, so they don't want Lewzer to fix the water problem with the Giant Faucet. They will probably pretend there is no Giant Faucet, and POTUS is just a troll.

you think Trump doesn't know flat maps distort the size of continents.

I don't think he has the faintest idea. He is not a smart man, and very poorly informed.

nothing that can be done but watch it burn and send thoughts and prayers.

Don't be silly. Just use the Giant Faucet. Problem solved. Lewzer is on it.

Presuming Trump is interested in Greenland because it appears big in maps is dumb.

True. Not like Lewzer is obsessed by size. Crowds and all.

major reservoir built in Texas is Bois d'Arc Lake

So equivalent to the 21st largest CA reservoir. Fair enough.

the cause of the fires is human-based, either through arson or incompetentance

The source if ignition really doesn't matter. The conditions that accelerate the fire do. Would this fire be any different if it was started by lightning or Oprah's Cybertruck?

The last major reservoir built in California was New Melones Lake in 1979

How many have been built since then in any state? And again, why not just open the giant Lewzer faucet?

When was the last time a new water reservoir was built in Cali? The 70's?

Those are expensive. Why go to all the cost and trouble when you can just open Lewzer's giant faucet and bring the Columbia River to LA?

Resolving the water crisis in California is going to be the greatest single accomplishment in Lewzer's first month in office. I might even drive down to watch the faucet turning events.

What's so obvious about it? Be specific.

Obviously dams on the Klamath River in far northern CA and Idaho affect LA. It's only six hundred miles away.

I've driven the Columbia River from one end to the other. Right from here to Astoria. I have never seen a giant faucet that would divert the river down through all of Oregon and most of California to LA.

Must be quite the aqueduct, going over all those big hills and all. Maybe Lewzer will put on a big show opening the building sized faucet that takes a day to open. Fireworks maybe?

you really don't know how to do a search.

Sure I do:

Former President Donald Trump suggested there was a "large faucet" up North that could solve all of California's water needs for its cities, its farms and to wet down its forests so they don't burn so fierce. "You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps and Canada, and all pouring down and they have essentially a very large faucet," Trump said this month. We call that faucet the Columbia River. "You turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it, and it's massive, it's as big as the wall of that building right there behind you. You turn that, and all of that water aimlessly goes into the Pacific (Ocean), and if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles," he said.

He also declared that once he's back in the White House, he'll order that that 'faucet' be turned back on and California's water problems will be solved.

Excellent. I will put that on my list of things to keep track of. I'm really curious where this "faucet" is located. Do any of the MAGA Lewzer-humpers have any idea?

Or does she determine if he is immune to the whole thing, guilty as charged or not?

Sotomayor picks up the appeal.

So she had to determine if Lewzer's arguments for the appeal are different from his losing arguments during the trial and subsequent jury conviction?

An article from 2022.

An improvement... the other one was older that that.

That report cost a lot of money. The people that paid for it should get to see it.

Quasimodo was a bellringer.

California is facing cascading failuresd.

Perhaps you should start pretending to live somewhere else instead of hyperventilating.

That's done more in forest areas than residential areas, though.

Yes. Removing fuel is usually done by burning it. Tough call picking a neighbourhood to burn down on purpose to protect the next one.

Even then it doesn't usually make much difference. Rain or the wind dying down will make a difference. The rest is just making it look like you are trying.

getting out in front of the spread to slow the forward movement of the fire.

That's mostly a risky and futile effort anyway. At best they might be able protect a few VIP homes, but they would have to be very VIP. Not enough water supply to go around.