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To: maggief

At work...checking in.

I read the governor said “stuff happens” in reference to Oroville dam.


789 posted on 02/14/2017 8:49:04 AM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: SE Mom

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/13/jerry-brown-on-the-oroville-dam-stuff-happens-and-we-respond/

“We live in a world of risk,” Brown said, referencing the collapse of the Bay Bridge after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. “Stuff happens, and we respond.”

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The governor also said a report by this news organization about state and federal officials ignoring warnings about the emergency spillway more than a decade ago was news to him.

“I’m glad we found out about it,” the governor said. “It was not part of the record before that, at least the record that I saw.”


793 posted on 02/14/2017 8:56:10 AM PST by maggief
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