I'M ALMOST tempted, given the bad behavior of politicians in Sacramento over whether to upgrade California's decaying levees, roads, reservoirs and other infrastructure, to just sit back and hope a nasty 500-year flood inundates the Capitol with thick muck. Too bad few politicians would suffer. Instead, thousands upon thousands of far-too-blissfully ignorant residents would lose their homes, and even their lives, if a catastrophic flood should strike Sacramento ... As if taunting the heavens, local Sacramento politicians have insanely allowed developers to construct thousands of residences on the bottomlands of floodplains. What's needed is a measure that focuses like a...