Anyone remember the Baldwin Hills dam break in the 60’s?
The mud pushed by rushing water is like quicksand. Cars are pushed downstream destroying buildings.
I’m sorry for the good people of California, whatever their politics. This event is not a natural disaster. It is the result of ignorant holier-than-thou overlords who’ve been working the system without opposition like Chicago politicians. Reds, nihillists, destroyers.
Exactly right. The parts of the state that depend on these dams for flood control are heavily Republican. With all state executive branch elected positions in Democrat hands, and with Democrat supermajorities in both chambers in the legislature, the Republican parts of the state have zero influence on budget priorities and funding levels. They also have zero clout in getting the democrat-dominated bureaucracy to move on flood control projects that the voters have already authorized bond funding for.
Independent studies show that California should allocate about $1B per year for flood control safety programs. Instead, we're blowing much more than that on the insane "high-speed" train to nowhere thanks to our idiot governor. Democrats cynically focus state money on programs that buy them votes and the larger, long-term interests of the state be damned, including of course those of the Republican counties. Unfortunately, dams and reservoirs don't vote. Unfortunately, the coastal elite that use the water from the reservoirs, the environmentalist nutjobs that do not understand real life, other leeches who don't want to work, the hordes of unnecessary state employees, and many illegals, do vote.
I had to look up the Baldwin Hills dam break, I didn’t recall that one.
It sure spawned a long series of investigations with some charging that subsidence from oil well pumping was to blame, I guess dismissing the fact that this reservoir was built on top of an earthquake fault.
Read enough of these dam failure histories and you get an education on geology and hydraulics