Holy crap. You’d think the governor would have the entire state mobilized. If this dam supplies 2/3 of the STATE, this should be ALL hands on deck.
What am I missing?
Besides the obvious snark, leftist gov, conspiracies, red county ;) This is unbelievable . Even if it’s “JUST” the spillway flooding over it’s a nightmare. The levees downriver ...crops destroyed...houses, livestock..all the unforseens..
What am I missing?
I have never seen a State level commitment to upgrade all the levees and structures in the central valley. Instead, it is treated as thought the Federal Government should just show up and start a giant waterway project because California is so important.
They feel like it should be paid for by the nation, IMHO.
For fellow conservatives, I apologize if this seems harsh toward your state but that is how it looks to an outsider.
Moonbeam is out of money. Cali is in BIG trouble.
The Republican legislature wants to block bullet train funds.
Sanctuary cities are about to be cut them off from federal funds, and the place is over-run with illegals.
calPERS is near collapse.
An aging infrastructure has been underfunded and not maintained.
Perhaps a catastrophic disaster is the only way Moonbeam can tap into Trump’s proposed infrastructure investment, meanwhile Brown maintains his liberal persona.
/justmytake
My guess is that you are underestimating just how incompetent the Kalifornia .gov is at every level.
This was all caused *solely* by not releasing water quickly enough.
Reasons for not doing that:
To protect the main spillway, which was known to already be weakened/damaged.
To protect the downstream levees from increased flow.
To keep a high level in the reservoir (yeah, pretty stupid but that’s the viewpoint they’ve had for a long time).
Also, this may have been an intentional effort to briefly test the emergency spillway in case it had to be used.
The link at #622