Wild fires are a yearly thing in California. They can be contained if the resources are managed properly. Dems always manage to make a bad situation worse.
This is the rank incompetence and stupidity that caused the current hellscape.
24 DEAD. $135-$150 billion in damage. 10,000 homes and businesses destroyed.
But no water.
Instead of cleaning the forest floors, removing dead trees, capturing rain runoff, and making sure California has water in the hydrants, Dems deflect and blame “climate change”.
Gavin Newsom cut more than $100 million from California’s fire budgets. Instead, he spent it on things like tranny cafes, ‘social justice’ art, gay choirs, illegals, and the NAACP. There is no water in the reservoirs because California’s leftist regime returned it to the ocean, to ‘save a fish’, which hasn’t been seen in over a decade.
In 2014, California voters approved $7.12 billion in bonds for state water supply infrastructure projects. Of that, $2.7 billion was designated for water storage projects. But nearly 8 years later, there are no new dams or reservoirs, or other water storage projects to collect and store California’s winter runoff. And California is in yet another drought.
The state officials in charge bow to environmentalists by allowing half of the state’s water to flow out to the ocean, leaving farmers and local governments to fight for the other 50%. The state uses about 47.5 percent of its developed water supply for the environment, including wild river flows, managed wetlands and wildlife preserves, habitat and water quality control for fish, and required Delta outflows, according to the Department of Water Resources. Water is diverted in times of drought and times of plenty to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, leaving much less for irrigation or for Californians to drink.
Approximately 10% of the remaining water is used by cities, and 40% is used by agriculture. Yet it is always urban use and agriculture forced to conserve.
Hundreds of firefighters were fired for refusing to allow the state to inject a toxic vax into their bodies. Now, there’s a shortage of personnel.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a DEI hired for her skin color, was vacationing in Ghana when the fires broke out. She refused to answer questions about her dereliction.
As California homeowners watch their lives go up in flames, they may want to pause a moment and credit the assclowns in their own state and local governments for creating obstacles to wildfire prevention.
President Trump said this in 2019:
In the meantime, Biden gives another $500 million to Ukraine.
And you can always count on Dems never to let a crisis go to waste:
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