On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:56:43 -0600, JAB <
here@is.invalid> wrote:
Reporter: Could you please clarify what the military did with the
California water per Trump's social media post?
Karoline Leavitt: "The water has been turned back on in California."
Reporter: What was the military's role? Where did the water come from?
Leavitt: "The water was turned on."
https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3lgt52io7q22s
MyNote - This water release does not flow directly to Los
Angeles....Either Trump is clueless, or a PR 'show'
Trump says he opened California's water. Local officials say he nearly
flooded them.
The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of
water in Central California, panicking local officials.
...
...
Firefighters had almost completely contained the Palisades and Eaton
fires as of early Friday. The Army Corps did not respond to a question
about how the water would reach Los Angeles, about 200 miles away.
Hernandez said the water would go to Tulare Lake, a dry lakebed that
last filled up during record-high rainfall in 2023.
Other water experts said it would have been nearly impossible to
divert the water to Los Angeles at the speed the Corps originally
planned to release it. There is a rarely used state valve that can
redirect Tulare Lake floodwaters into the aqueduct that carries water
further south into Los Angeles, but neither state nor federal
officials responded to a question asking if they would turn it on.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/trump-california-water-00201909
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