Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams
www.latimes.com
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    16 hours ago

    That article is really struggling hard to avoid bluntly saying that there was absolutely fuck-all reason to release the water. “Unclear,” my ass – it’s blatantly obvious that, without even any vaguely plausible good reason, the only reason that remains is malice: to deliberately fuck over the state by depriving it of water it’s gonna need later.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    32·
    17 hours ago

    This is such a stupid fucking idea. They’ve had a dry winter already. Shits gonna be bad for water come this summer and if they have a dry summer they’re pretty much fucked.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
          12·
          17 hours ago

          Mind you, it causes damages to Republican-leaning parts of the state.

          This sounds a lot more like “gee, that dam is half way between the north and the south, I’ll order it to dump water” without knowing anything about where that water goes afterwards.

          • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.world
            7·
            15 hours ago

            It causes damage to the States that rely on federal funding and support. California contributes a LOT directly to many red states.

            • Dragomus@lemmy.world
              1·
              36 minutes ago

              I am contemplating this scenario:

              California says “we can’t contribute no more due to needing our own funds” … Trump says: “you’ll pay …or… tariffs!”

      • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
        19·
        17 hours ago

        MAGA assholes were practically dancing in the streets during the L.A. Fires. They’ll be giddy if Orange Hitler can burn the entire state to the ground.

  • Majorllama@lemmy.world
    38·
    18 hours ago

    It has barely rained around me this winter. I’m sure this won’t bite us in the ass later this year when it’s 107 and the state is burning again.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    7·
    14 hours ago

    According to federal data, the flow from Terminus Dam into the Kaweah River near Visalia increased from 57 cubic feet per second to more than 1,500 on Friday morning. The flow from Lake Success near Porterville into the Tule River increased from 105 cubic feet per second to 990.

    Holy fucking shit.