Since we can't build any more homes, find any more water or make electricity in this state
I like Gruesome's new plan to shrink the Cali population back to manageable size!
And, he's fixing our problem with too many Progressives by losing more House seats!
Go Warden!
Speaking of Water, so there's record rainfall in Northern California after the past couple of extreme drought conditions and most reservoirs near record low levels. So you think the people in charge of our state water system would take advantage and let the reservoirs fill up - I'm no Hydrologist but that's not what's supposed to happen and they're supposed to follow antiquated rule curves and release the water.
"Honestly, I think your mom should of let your dad beat you."
*should have
You dolt
What else we got here?
Advocating offspring abuse, for one.
Violence maybe yeah.
Probably racism too.
Time to hand in your Progressive decoder ring, Bbbbbuuuttzz.
But dont worry, you'll fit right in with some far right misogynistic Qanon Russian collusion Trump insurrection.
CA lost about 1% of it's population last year, about 343,000. NY lost about 300,000.
and Illinois lost about 142,000. People are voting with their feet and wallets.
If you're young and want a future, you are a fool to stay in CA.
You'll get eaten up by a high cost of living and lots of taxes.
Fuck Jinglebells. You really are one big pussy.
Yes all that. Thank you for calling me out. You certainly crushed me with that. I'm ruined now.
You owe that pretty lil face, that all the guys at the round table love to shove their clocks in, to your mom. Your father used to want to beat you when he came home drunk every night. Shit, he just wanted you to be a man. Look at you, a whiny lil Peter puffer. Go Balls Deep you say, all the way to your chin.
^^^^ Dams have several uses with water retention (as in a typical reservoir) being only one of them, and the design and control of dams is primarily the responsibility of the Army Corp of Engineers, not the state. Predicting how much water to release vs. retaining is a very complicated formula and process, and sometimes those predictions can be way off. With the improvement of science and technology we are getting better, although the drought status in SoCal would seem to indicate otherwise. But there is only way to really get it right, and that is to have a spy in Mother Nature's camp.
^ Good Info, there needs to be some flexibility built into the formula that allows quick changes to water storage especially con considering the unprecedent amount of rainfall just his month.
Snowpack in the Sierras is now at 165% "for this time of the rainy season". Similar to last year, but then it was practically nothing until the end of April so in the end we were screwed. But if they retain all that water now and have even a slightly above normal rainy season then in the end of the rainy season could see some terrible flooding, possibly even some dams collapsing (eg. Oroville spillway). ACE is mostly concerned about keeping people from drowning during those floods and the extensive property damage that they can cause. Drinking water, irrigation water, and recreational use are all secondary to that. In recent years, ecology considerations have also taken precedent over drinking and irrigation water (think: salmon, and other 'endangered' fish and marshland birds).
ACE is pretty good and their people are usually right on top of things, but they are not infallible. I am a retired general contractor (CA: A, B, C-27, +Haz Mat endorsed, ATF High Explosives, etc.), and a lot of the work I have done is with ACE and the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). In 1983 we were blowing up mountains in Palo Verde, CA, making riprap (big rocks) for lining the banks of the Colorado River. ACE and USBR were convinced that the river would not overflow even though some serious snowpack was sitting up in the mountains and the Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dams were already retaining a large amount of water. My dad, who never finished the 8th grade but could do complex math faster in his head than I could punch it into a calculator, told them that they were full of shit and there was no way the river would not overflow come spring. It overflowed! The resulting damage was extensive. As some sort of acknowledgment for our warning and their mistake we were awarded a highly lucrative contract for "emergency work" to repair the Colorado River (which, because it came all of a sudden and we were not prepared for a sudden windfall of cash, we ended up giving a lot of it back in taxes). As a result, they did change their formulas for determining when water should be released to prevent flooding. But again, there are a lot of variables to consider (some even political) and it is not a perfect science.
But I think a big problem is the "never again" syndrome that the government develops. As an analogy, one of the reasons it takes so long for a new drug to get approved these days is directly related to the thalidomide debacle of the 50's and 60's. That put the FDA under such scrutiny and embarrassment that they essentially said, "never again." ACE and USBR have that same mentality when it comes to flooding, drinking water be damned. The only U.S. agency that does not follow that line of thinking is the CIA (remember The Bay of Pigs?)
Interesting turn in the blog topic to the technical aspects of dams and hydrology
Lots better than hearing angry Bbbuutzzz fart in his bathtub with great abandon
Maybe it's the PTSD from feeling daddy's love when he was a younger man
Whatever.........
Still thinking the Warden's plan is a good one
Starve the poor that can't afford a Uhaul
Drive the middle class to other states
Say pretty words in front of the camera
Then head back to the winery and try not to be an empty suit
Lean in and be mindful, lol
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