The Central Valley is the red part of CA, which is one reason why they Oroville and Manteca (two different rivers, two different watersheds) were denied funding to maintain their spillways and levies by the state govenment. "People" didn't choose this, urban leftists did. The people actually living in the area and effected by this had no ability to stop it and they are the ones who will suffer if it all goes bad.
I did live in CA for 55 years. My father was working on the levy 200 yards north of the breach at Shanghai Bend in 1955. Your comment certainly seemed flippant to me.