Or, put another way: I view California as one does a severely drug-addicted sibling or child that’s been mooching off you for years and years. Eventually, you realize that all you’ve done is be an enabler - and that there’s nothing else you can do to help them out but to harden your heart, cut them off and hope they straighten out. I believe some call it “tough love.” Well, that’s where I’m at right now.
The Governor Brown has it under control. It happens every year, which is why he has built up the water storage capacity and forest management policies in the face of the environmentalists’ resistance.