First the Flood
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan 5 (Reuters) – A massive Pacific storm unleashed high winds, torrential rains and heavy snow across California for a second day on Thursday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and disrupting road travel with flash floods, rock slides and toppled trees.
From the National Integrated Drought Information System (I bet you didn’t know that your federal tax dollars went to something like this, did you?)
- 37.1 million people in California are affected by drought
- 58 counties with USDA disaster designations
- 59th driest November was in 2022, over the past 128 years
- 2nd driest year to date was in 2022, over the past 128 years
We also have 100% electric vehicles in 12 years:
SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board today approved the trailblazing Advanced Clean Cars II rule that sets California on a path to rapidly growing the zero-emission car, pickup truck and SUV market and deliver cleaner air and massive reductions in climate-warming pollution.
The rule establishes a year-by-year roadmap so that by 2035 100% of new cars and light trucks sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles, including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
But don’t charge your electric vehicle. Just one week after the above announcement to go all-electric:
The heatwave continues. For eight successive days, California’s independent grid operator (Cal ISO), the body that manages the transmission grid, has issued “Flex Alerts” asking households to voluntarily reduce power use, including not charging EVs between 4:00-9:00 pm.
Top 20 Largest California Wildfires: out of the top twenty, all but two have come in the 21st century. Turning the Whig Theory of history on its head.
So, let’s summarize this: a state with no water cannot handle the rain when it does come; a state with no electricity mandates all cars are to run on electricity; a drought-stricken state that is abysmal when it comes to managing and containing wildfires. Yet, it has plenty of money for this:
California’s high speed rail project:
On the cost side of the project, if the $100 billion estimate for cost of the Los Angeles to San Francisco phase of the project is taken seriously, that means the remaining portions – Merced to Sacramento and LA to San Diego – will cost an additional $60 billion and require an upping of the power needs discussed above by about 60%.
That $60 billion figure does not take into account the fact that the portion of the line slated to run down the I-15 corridor from Temecula to San Diego will be one of the most expensive.
Which, as everyone already knows, will never be completed and will cost at least double of any number currently advertised.
Yes, I know. We all laugh at states like California, Illinois, and New York. But we are all swimming in the same mud. We are all getting dirty. It just shows a little sooner in some places than in others.
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What you don’t know is that the water you get in your area is imported from the USA??????
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