Friday, January 31, 2025

Yes, We Are So Fucked

Even if everything came down at once, it would only be enough to fill the reservoir halfway,” he said. “We were on track with the Corps working with the models and forecasts and doing our planning and then I get a call at 2:15 p.m. telling me they were going to channel capacity.” 
Hernandez was floored. 
“In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said. “I was given no explanation at all.” 
Before they got word of the Army Corp’s decision to release less water, Hernandez, Fukuda and Limas were planning for the worst. 
Hernandez had already notified managers on the old Tulare Lake Bed to expect possible flood water. And Limas and Fukuda had crews ready to work through the night stripping out weirs and channel guides, which were only recently rebuilt after the 2023 floods, to keep the water moving. 
“Normally, these kinds of flood releases are done with a lot of notification and coordination,” Fukuda said. “I’ve been doing this 18 years and have never seen something like this.” 
The Army Corps also operates Isabella and Pine Flat lakes on the Kern and Kings rivers, respectively. 
Kern River Watermaster Art Chianello and Kings River Watermaster Steve Haugen both said they had not received notice of flood releases from Isabella and Pine Flat. 
But neither of those lake levels are above their winter allowance, Haugen said.
Guess who? Trump was releasing water farmers need. (But hey, they won’t have anybody to work the fields, so…)

Oh, that’s not all. Congress can stop all of this. Trump has any power over tariffs because Congress gave that power to the Office of the President. Congress can take it back. The only question is, how long will it take them to do that? One year? Or three? By which I mean, with a new Congress? Or before then?
Congress can stop everything Trump is doing or wants to do. How long it takes them to do so is up to we, the people.
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  1. The Thought Criminal8:44 PM

    We have gone from having a recovery from Covid and the economic catastrophe caused by it that was the envy of the world to having the worst criminally insane syndicate of crackpots and incompetents in the world, brought here by the billionaires, the Roberts Court and the mas s media.
    If we're lucky enough to get an FDR after the crash, we'd better make some of those drastic changes or we really are F'ed.

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