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What an appropriate use of funds...
Do we need /s notes here?
I'm picturing some 20 yo shithead flying a private jet to the bay area, turning on a garden spigot and announcing "We saved LA!"
Dumbfucks.
Attempting to "open" a water system that is ~~not at all~~ sort of remotely connected to the LA municipal water system.
Flooding the California central valley in winter which will undoubtedly leave reservoirs depleted during spring and summer, when water is actually needed.
America the Kakistocracy
Edit: The US Army Corps of Engineers operates over 90,000 dams, and the reservoirs they contain, throughout the country. All of which are currently at the discretion of the stupidest person to ever be commander in chief. He can flood your home, cut off your electricity, dry up your farmland, or cause all kinds of havoc on a whim.
Worse, they were working with half information. The San Joaquin valley water does eventually connect to LA. California has, over the last century, interconnected a majority of their water, and water from other states, to LA. LA shouldn't exist in its current form. It's arid desert, yet way too many people and crops exist there. The El Diablo Canyon nuclear facility exists solely to pump water over mountains for LA. (Was hilarious when Newsom wanted to shut it down until he was educated.)
All that said, wasting reservoirs thinking the water will instantly teleport to LA is so destructively stupid. There is so much interplay in their water infrastructure.
Those boneheaded idiot kids shouldn't have been given the time of day by anyone. Farmers should hunt them down and make those two work the fields by hand until they recoup their losses. Including filtering out the salt brine they likely contaminated some fields with.
Including filtering out the salt brine they likely contaminated some fields with.
And here I was thinking it could not possibly get any stupider.
Zero to prison time.
Having Elon Musk in the White House is like having a toddler who watches too much Bob the Builder
The article isn't clear enough about this. This pump is nowhere close to the fires, and the water coming out of the pump doesn't get anywhere close to the fires, either.
The purpose of the pumps is to take water from rivers and send it to wealthy farmers. The farmers didn't even need the water, anyway, this time of year.
We live in the era of the Reckless and uninformed.