57 - CALIFORNIA - Water, Fires, and Gavin Newsom

0:01 Take my beneficiity like you just let me eat my way. Welcome back, World of Blade. Listeners to episode fifty seven today. Well, today I had a lot of topics ready to go, but I think I'm going to focus on fire, the fires in southern California specifically, because there's a lot of misinformation floating out there in the ether, a lot of larger social media accounts pushing well rhetoric that just isn't quite truthful, and everyone's pointing fingers. Everyone, of course, wants to politicize the event. It's the Democrat's fault, It's the Republican's fault. Trump's fault for not supporting California Mayor Karen Bassi's fault for not really mad the situation in LA and then of course Governor Newsom's fault. Everybody's to blame here.

1:05 It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on, they're all to blame. But let's dive into some facts. Because everybody assumes that California is out of water, that we don't have any water. Now, technically California is in a drought. You've got to understand that California is made up of many micro climates. It's not just one climate that blankets the entire state. Everybody thinks California is enjoyable, moderate temperature, full of sunshine and surfboards. We're all out there barbecuing and grilling on the beach each and every day, tossing back coronas, enjoying the waves, and hey, it's always sunny.

1:51 But that's not the truth. The fact of the matter is we have areas that are extremely cold. We have areas that get in insane amounts of snowfall. We have areas that have so much fog and it's so thick you can barely see past your windshield, if you can barely see past your hand at all. And of course, yes, we do have warm weather, which is nice, but we also have insanely hot weather. We're talking one hundred and ten degrees, one hundred and fifteen degrees. You see, you can't just call California always sunny, always temperate, always enjoyable in terms of the weather. We get all the seasons out here, we really do. And yes, by definition, California isn't a drought. California is a large land mass, and historically, sure we've had less rain, but then there's times we have more rain. Now that's neither here or there right now, because the reality is man has created ways to store and collect water via reservoirs and tanks and other ways that we use, especially here in California, to make sure that we have water. Now, the bigger question and what starts this blame game, is the management of that water, the amount of water we store, and again how we handle the water flows in California. Let's go over some

3:23 data that will dispel the belief to mystify everybody in terms of whether or not California has water. First off, let's talk about precipitation. Let's talk about precipitation statistics. So if we're just looking at precipitation in certain areas, for example, area of focus right now, that's all over the news because it's you know, southern California is literally getting burned away by fire. So let's talk about the Colorado River area, which is all the way down there below kind of below or next to Los Angeles, San Diego, right there by the border of Mexico, by the Snora Desert all that. So, if we're looking at the Colorado River area, the water year to date is point zero two inches, so yeah, not a lot of water out there. In fact, it's only one percent of average, okay, one percent of average.

4:25 So the max has ever been in that area is almost seven inches. The average is won one point eight, so the average of one point eight and the minimum has been point zero two, that being right now reported as of January thirteenth, twenty twenty five. Now I'm getting this information from the California Water Watch at CWW dot water dot CA dot gov, and I'm gonna have a lot more of these stats from different organizations. I'll leave these in the show notes for you. But yes, we're below average right now, right now, as of now in that particular area where below average, Now, let's go into the South coast. South coast is pretty much that stretch of La all the way down to Tijuana, so it takes up San Diego down to Tijuana. So that's that what they would call region number nine, which is the South Coast, and water you're to date is point three one inches. Okay, so it's only five percent of average.

5:22 So yes, again, southern California is experiencing less than average rainfalls. Historical record in that area is twenty five inches. The average is six point five six, and right now we're at the lowest it's ever been, which is point three one. Again, yes, southern California is receiving less rainfall than average South La Hunting or Lahontan. I can't pronounce that correctly, so I apologize. But this is like the region where the Mojave Desert is and all that, and just what did you take note? So Region eight and ten ten are read earlier, and Region eight are both considered desert areas. So water you're to date is zero point eight one inches, thirty one percent of average. The max has ever had was over eight and a half inches. The average is two point six one and the minimum is zero point one five, which is as of year to date, we're above that minimum.

6:27 We're definitely not the average though, and we're only thirty one percent of its average. But a lot of water, a lot of water that gets pumped down to southern California actually comes from areas north of California, and if we want to look at that information, Sacramento River area. Now, the Sacramento area has been a topic of contention when it comes to water stores and flows because of the whole delta smelt fiasco, the one that Governor Gavin Newsom denies he knows anything about, the one that he says Trump is lying about. But as we get deeper into this podcast, this particular episode you're listening today, you're gonna find out a little bit more truth about that matter. Now.

7:13 Right now, in that Sacramento River area, a lot, a lot of water has accumulated. In fact, y're todate they have accumulated over nineteen inches water and they are at one hundred and twenty four percent of average. If we go into the North Coast area, which is upast Sacramento, above San Francisco, they have received thirty four point one nine inches and are one hundred thirty nine percent above average. So the idea that all of California is out of water is not true. Now, are we perfectly fine in all regions. No, But there's enough water in terms of precipitation to go around. Is it enough to make every single part of our land lush and green? No, absolutely not.

8:06 And remember California is full of microclimates. In fact, when we talk about southern California, that area Los Angeles, to be quite honest, years ago, years ago, before man came and decided they want to settle there and plant more plants and buildings and put in water infrastructure to keep everything nice and green and lush. Was all desert. It was desert, but Man decided to geoengineer it and turn it into something else. Same thing that was going on in Las Vegas, for example, Las Vegas, Nevada desert. If you go to Las Vegas now, you can't even tell it was a desert outside of the heat. But as soon as Man, as soon as Man backs away and stops maintaining Las Vegas, for example, it will return right back to the desert it was. So I want you to keep that in mind. There are areas where people live, mass populated areas that were considered uninhabitable, but Man thought differently and developed these areas so that they were habitable. Again, using Las Vegas as an example, and of course Los Angeles.

9:07 So technically that area historically has always been a desert, but Man has decided that it will not accept its fate in living in a desert. So it takes care, takes maintenance, it takes water, stores, water infrastructure, it takes plants, greenery, everything to make it habitable. Let's move on to the drought situation, because, as I said, technically, yes, California is still in a drought. According to drought dot Gov, there are twenty one point seven million California residents in areas of drought and that has gone up by over fifteen percent recently. But another interesting fact is we've had the wettest November on record, in fact, that eighteenth wettest November since eighteen ninety five, and that means that this particular November we had over four point twenty four inches total for separtation. Total we're talking about California total, averaging it out, that's one point seventy one inches up from average or normal.

10:16 We've also had the wettest January through November on record since eighteen ninety five, being the twenty eighth since eighteen ninety five, with a total precipitation of twenty two point five to three inches, and that is up three point seventy five inches from the average. So looking at this, you can say, well, California isn't really in a drought. We've received enough water, but that is an average and it doesn't mean that every single area has enough water to cover its needs. Again, it's a big land mass, so you got to keep in mind some areas want to be deserts, some don't. Hence why we have reservoirs and why we pump water from one area to another.

11:00 A lot of people don't even know this. Up in Yosemite, in fact, Hatchetchy, that area, that reservoir was primarily built to store water and pump it to San Francisco. That's right all the way up from Yosemite to San Francisco. Now, if you don't live in California, I'll just tell you that is a long way away from each other. And yet that's what happens in California. You would think all that water up there is enough to feed the entire central valley like San Joaquin Valley, Stanislaus County, that whole area would get that water. But no, it's pumped to San Francisco. So there's a lot of there's a lot of strange contractual agreements between different cities, counties, et cetera on who gets what water stores and whatnot. And it's all designed to make sure everyone has enoughness based on population.

11:47 But if we want to talk about if we want to talk about the reservoirs in general, let's talk about them. You see, most of the reservoirs, while they not be at full capacity, are all ab above historical average, most of them. This data I got from Water Resources and it's CDec is the California Data Exchange Center. Okay, California Department of Water Resources. It's that CDec dot water dot CA dot gov. According to the data that was reported January twelfth of this year, twenty twenty five. Now, some of these are I'm going to read you our northern and then we'll get down to kind of the middle of California into the southern California area. But for example, a lot of people heard of Shasta. So the reservoir over there is one hundred and twenty six percent above its average. No, it's not full, but it's way above its historical average. Oraville is also one hundred and twenty nine percent above its historical average. New Bullard's Bar one hundred and twenty six above average. Now full sum is below average, it's eighty eight percent of But then we go down to Comanche and we're at one hundred and twenty two percent above Trinity one hundred and twenty six percent above and you're starting to see the picture here.

13:04 We're above average on most every reservoir that we have in California. Now let's talk about southern California. So now we start to get into basically my area where we're talking about Sonoma, San Louis. We've got new Malons, Don Pedro. All of them are at or above historical average. Now southern California, look at Kachuma or Katcuma. However, you say that one hundred and thirty eight percent above average, Casitas one hundred and twenty four percent above average, Castaic or Castick ninety eight percent. You have Diamond Valley one hundred and thirty five percent above average, Pine Flat one hundred and twenty seven percent above average. Millerton is below and is at eighty one percent of historical average. But overall, I think you're starting to see the picture here in your mind. Right overall, most all reservoirs are at or above average. So do we have enough water? Well, if you're looking at just precipitation, maybe not. But if you're looking at total California water stores in terms of reservoirs, well maybe California does have enough. So with that information you're probably asking yourself, well, if there's all this water store, then why did we run out of water during the fires?

14:30 Why do we run out of water in the Palstates fire? What happened? Why did the hydrants go dry? Well, that also has to do with water stores, but not necessarily reservoirs. We're talking about water storage tanks. There are currently three tanks there that will help supply water up into the hills. That is about one million gallons per tank or three million gallons total. Now we can argue that that is not enough water store, and there is also an argument that the pumps weren't keeping up with a demand. Let me let me play this clip of the CEO here, Janice kens kenonas Ke. I'm sorry, you know what. I flubbed that all the time. But Janice Kenyonyas anyway, you get the idea. She is the CEO of the LA Department of Water. Now here's the thing though, LA Department of Water. She's a CEO and she gets paid seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. With that kind of money, you think that this person would be extremely competent know exactly what's going on. And I'm not going to get into that argument. Many people have called her a DEI higher, but the reality is she did come from PG and E or Pacific Gas and Electric in which she was kind of forced out. I'm not really sure the whole story, but she had to resign due to the mishandling of what happened with pging in years back,

16:02 with all the fires because of the unmaintained electrical lines and everything else. And then we had the gas pipes that leads and exploded. I don't if anybody remembered that. So with all of that, she left, resigned, whatever the case is, and now she's in place as the CEO of the Lle Department of Water and Power. And somehow seems like she got an upgrade or reward because now she's getting paid seven hundred and fifty thousand a year. I don't understand it, but whatever. Now here's her explaining what happened as it relates to the pumps running out of water. Here's the clip. We ran out of water and the first tank at abound four forty five pm yesterday. We ran out of water on the second tank about eight thirty pm, and the third tank about three am this morning. Those tanks help with the pressure on the fire hydrants and the heels of palisades. And because we were pushing so much water in our trunk line and so much water was being used before it can't get to the tents. We were not able to feel the tents fast enough. So the consumption of water was faster than we can't provide water in our trunk line. So I want to make sure that you understand there's water on the trunk line, it just cannot get off the hill because we cannot feel the tents fast enough.

17:21 Okay, So that explanation, that explanation is the correct explanation. I guarantee you that she doesn't even really know that someone wrote that for her. I can guarantee you that. But regardless, regardless, it is the correct explanation. The problem lies in why were the pumps inadequate? Why did we only have three water tanks to feed the hills in an area that is known to catch fire. It's that area up there, that's Santa Anna area, Palisades. All of that area naturally catches fire, and they have fires every single year in that area. Now this is the worst of them. I mean, it's pretty much decimated most of all of La wiped out the Palisades, It's jumped over, destroyed Malibu, all the coastal homes. I mean, this is a legit, real disaster in California, a real disaster. The world may not recognize it because America is rich and strong and all that, but the truth is it's a disaster.

18:35 So with all that being said, you're in a known area that has problems with fire, and here we are facing one of the greatest fires in history, and your infrastructure is not ready to support the needs of those that want to manage, maintain, and put these fires out. And the big question is why who made the call? Why hasn't this been done? Again, a lot of fingerpointing news some blames Trump, Trump blames new Some news blames the local government down in southern California or government agencies. Nobody wants to take responsibility. So let's fast forward here because this has been a known problem, and in fact, let's go back about eleven years or so. In twenty fourteen, there was a proposition that was past Proposition one water storage investment program. That's right, there was a water storage investment program and it was funded with public funds. It was for the benefit of the public for storing water. Now, this proposition had dedicated two point seven billion, not million billion with a B for investments in water storage projects.

19:56 I'm getting this information from the Water commit or the California Water Commission, So this comes straight from the bureaucracy's mouth, straight from the government website CWC dot CA dot gov. And while it is a government website, we all know there's a lot of bureaucracy within the government. So let me read this. Proposition one of twenty fourteen dedicated two point seven billion for investments in water storage projects. The California Water Commission is administering the Water Storage Investment Program or WSIP to fund the public benefits associated with these projects. In July of twenty eighteen, the Commission made maximum conditional eligibility determinations, which is the amount of Proposition one funding available to a given project for eight projects that collectively would boost California's water storage capacity. Buy get this two point seven seven million acre feet, not gallons. We're talking about acreage two point seven seven million acreage feet that is used to store water. It goes on the read.

21:06 The projects range from expanding existing reservoirs, so making them bigger, okay, to boosting groundwater storage, to building twenty first century surface storage facilities because many of them are well, they're in need, they're in need of being updated. Since July of twenty eighteen, one project withdrew from the WSIP and the Commission adjusted the remaining projects mceeds. Now, that particular project, I'm trying to narrow down which one it was. I'm trying to see if that was connected to the whole Delta smelt fiasco. I'm having a hard time doing that right now. But regardless, there are multiple projects that were proved in are moving forward.

21:50 The problem here is none of them have been completed, none of them. So here's a graph they have. In twenty twenty three, construction began in current Farm, and construction has began in twenty twenty four on the Harvest Water project. Okay, But in twenty twenty five they barely awarded the funding for lols of Villa Carros and they're barely going to begin the construction. Twenty twenty six, they are barely going to award or prove to award funding for Willow Springs. In twenty twenty six also sites and they will dark construction on those two in twenty twenty seven. Same thing goes for the Chino Basin. They're also projected that in twenty twenty seven. The Harvest Water project will be operational.

22:44 In twenty twenty seven, that's also again when they start construction with Chinel Basins, So in twenty twenty eight is when they start Pachaco. Now Pacheco is a big one because Pacheco is going to be one of the largest projects that will actually feed down to southern California. The Pachako one is based in the Central Valley of California. Now, everything though, will not become operational until twenty twenty eight or later, and that's a big problem. See, the fires have already happened. The money has been awarded and approved in twenty fourteen, and most of these projects aren't even gonna start construction til twenty twenty seven. One of them will be twenty twenty six, but the majority of them starting around twenty twenty seven. The fires have already happened, and part of this project is again expanding reservoirs, waters, building twenty first century water stores, et cetera. Now, those water stores would have been important. It would have been important in southern California, especially right there where the fires were, the Palisate fires, because with only three tanks and pump systems, it's not enough to feed the demands of a major fire or in this case, a huge fire that is unprecedented. See, they could have used three more tanks, so that would have been six million gallons ready and available. Now beyond that, let's talk about the water that gets to southern California, because southern California, again, it's a drier area, less precipitation

24:19 than the you know, the far north northern area of California up in the mountains. You know, there's a lot that a lot of snowfall, et cetera. But how do we get the water to southern California. I'm going to also tell you about another project that is part of this. There is a reservoir in Sacramento. Now this is that reservoir or that area where else talking about that was tied to that Delta smelt fiasco. Now, according to cal Matters, which is an organization that monitors pretty much various projects government, et cetera. In California. According to them, they have a report and article that wrote about this. This came out in February of twenty twenty three headline this reservoir in Sacramento River has been planned for decades, So this report in twenty twenty three, and at that time they've already been waiting for this project to be done decades. It has been planned for decades, and the question is what's taking so long. In summary, the site reservoir is a four point four billion again not million billion, with a b four point four billion dollar project to add dams and store more water that'll be sent south south as in southern California. But it's still years away from completion.

25:44 I'm want to read that one more time. It is still years away from completion. The final environmental report up there it is I knew that was going to be somewhere environmental report. Let me keep reading. The final environmental report is expected this year, which was twenty twenty three. By the way, that's when this report came on, so before construction of two large dams and other structures can begin, So they were still going through environmental studies and whatnot back then in twenty twenty three. Aside from environmental reports, other things that have been holding this project up our acquisition of water rights, permitting, and of course, as I stated earlier, the environmental review. You're going to keep hearing an environmental review, right because in California, environmental reviews really hold up projects for years, in years and years, and also add additional costs to projects. So even though this has been scheduled for twenty twenty four, it's likely will be delayed another year. So here we are twenty twenty five, still delayed, and it says that they're expected for it to be completed by twenty thirty or twenty thirty one.

26:57 So this whole thing started. This whole thing started back in twenty eighteen with the two point seven billion dollars that were allotted and put away set aside to be spent specifically on water stores in California. Yet we have nothing but delays in bureaucracy that hold it up, and everything is delayed because of well the bureaucracy and various departments, being more specific environmental departments. It's saying that this reservoir, though it would store as much as one point five million acre feet of Sacramento River water and could eventually boost water supplies, especially in dry years, which we're in in California. Specifically, we're in a dry year in southern California for more than twenty four million people, and it stays heered, mostly in southern California. Just like I just said, five hundred thousand acres of Central Valley farmland would also be supplied. And it's saying the reservoir will now cost four point four billion, and it says Prop one we'll cover up to eight hundred and seventy five million of this funding. So again, we have a large project that they've been talking about doing for years, has been planning for decades. Twenty eighteen, money's put aside, given to California for building additional stores, and it gets tied up due to environmental reporting which we're still waiting on, studies, water rights, et cetera. So again, who's the blame as Trump to blame,

28:32 is Gavin Newsom to blame? Karen Basst Like, who's the blame? Who's the blaming? Karen Bassa has nothing to do with any of this, So I'm going to get her out of the way. But as we know, with anybody in leadership, all the blame falls on your shoulders and I'm pointing at you, mister Newsome. Gavin Newsom, yes, you because if anything, if you're looking out for your state, listen, a large amount of your constituents are in southern California. It is a largely populated area of California. Do you not think you might be paying attention to this project and where it's at now? As far as as far as water drinking water is concerned, there's another project. This isn't so much about water stores, but just to point out how much more money has been going into the water situation in general in California, because in November of twenty twenty four, there was another twenty six point two million for pure water recycling projects, so basically just making water drinkable. So yes, so everybody realizes there's a water concern, of water issue, and it's not so much that water available in California isn't necessarily there. We have the ways, we have the means, we have the abilities to expand on the storage capacities.

29:53 We have the ability to put the infrastructure in place to make sure that all areas get the water. But even though all the money has been put aside for these projects, nothing's happening. Nothing's happening, Gavin. Gavin Newsom goes on to defend himself against Trump. Trump says, and I'm reading this from one of his posts, he said, Governor Gavin Newscum, not Newsom, but new Scum, refused to sign the water Restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and snow melt from the North to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtual apocalyptic way. He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt by giving it less water.

30:46 It didn't work. And he's right. No matter what they did to try to preserve the smelt, their numbers kept declining and continue to decline. And the whole situation with the smelt goes back for many years. It's not just what's happening now or recently. By the way, anyway, I'm going to stop there, and I'm gonna I'm going to say that. Keep in mind, he's talking about water flowing from the North Okay, and he's more specifically addressing or referring to the project I just talked to you about the large reservoir that has been planned and proposed in Sacramento. So that's what Trump's referring to. I have a clip of Gavin Newsom getting all hot and bothered about all of this, and here's his response.

31:34 To the President elect. I don't know what he's referring to when he talks about the Delta Smelt and reservoirs. The reservoirs are completely full. Of the state reservoirs here in southern California. That missing disinformation. I don't think advantages or aids any of us responding to Donald Trump's insults. We would spend another month. I'm very familiar with him. Every elected official that he disagrees with very familiar with him. We do know, though, from reporting locally, that that one reservoir that serves the Palisades was not full, and that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir that was not a state system reservoir, which the President elect was referring to as it relates to the Delta and somehow connecting the Delta Smelt to this.

32:17 All right, So Gavin Newsom is obviously lying. He's lying. He's acting like he has no idea what's going on with the Delta Smelt, no no idea. He doesn't know what reservoir he's referring to in the North. I just read the report from the government websites, all the reporting and data. I just exposed Gavin Newsom's lies by just doing a little bit of research, just a little digging, a little googling, a little you know this that whatever, he's a liar. He's trying to say he has no idea, and he's trying to say all the Southern California reservoirs are full, then they don't need water from anyone. We know that's bullshit because I just read that data. Okay, they're not full. Many of them are at historical average, many of them are below. One of them is absolutely below.

33:05 But they're not full, They're not at capacity. They may be hitting averages. And yes, Southern California, the precipitation level has been nil almost zero, and yes you are in need of water. I used to live up by that reservoir that I referred to earlier, on the one in Pachaco San Luis Reservoir, to be specific, and I went to that reservoir, took a tour, talked to the workers there and everybody, and this was I mean this was years ago, and everybody there said that most of that water you see here doesn't even feed the area. It gets pumped down to southern California, and it is a large, massive store. You take a road, a Highway one fifty two, which snakes through that on its way over into Gilroy.

33:56 It would be the way that you would get down into For anybody in California who knows, it's your way to get from those battles, for example, into Gilroy Morgan Hill, and then you just get the one on one and keep driving down and get into San Jose and all that. So anyone in California that knows that area, you know exactly what I'm talking about. As you're driving, that reservoir is on your side and in your view for I would say a good three quarters of your drive through those mountains. It is already very large, and there's money put aside to make it even bigger, to increase his capacity. So, yeah, southern California needs water from the north. It absolutely does.

34:38 It can't survive without it. Gavin Newsom denying that there's any project proposed or anything in place to be built to supply water to southern California is absurd. He's a liar, He's always been a liar. He's a politician. He can care less about the people of southern California, because if he did, he would be taking responsibility or at least reference these projects and saying, hey, hey, you know what, we have all this in place. We've approved for all of these, all these projects to be to be completed. They're in the queue, and just admit. The issue is is none of it was done quick enough. A lot of them are planned to be finished by twenty thirty or later. And unfortunately we're in the situation we are in now because we are just not prepared to handle the situation that fell upon us. That is what happened.

35:30 So Gavin Newsom doesn't deny anything about the smelt whatever, Okay, cool, not a problems. Here's a CBS News article about you know, it came out last year February fifteenth, says no more Delta smelt. The Delta Tunnel project threatens their extinction for good. So, yeah, the Delta smelt have been a thing it's been a public thing. It's been something that's been reported on in California for decades. Right here, Jan, Joaquin County, a project to move water from Sacramento region down to again southern California. Hold on, so, CBS News reported on this, Gavin Newsom denies it. Who's the right, who's wrong here? Let me keep reading. This is a very complex issue. Californians are in need of water all over the state, but with a project like the Delta Tunnel, environmentalists say, there's that environmental word again. Sorry, janterrupt, but I'm got to keep reading.

36:28 The environmentalists say that fifty species of fish in the Delta are at risk, as well as the wildlife and people who depend on the fish. It says, for the sixty year in a row, the DWR has found no Delta smelt. So for six years going they've been moderning this situation and they haven't found any Delta smelt. It's a small endangered fish that's only found again, only found in the San Francisco Estuary. The future of the Delta smelt population looks grim considering the Delta Tunnels projects. Invasive construins diction. Okay, so tell me again, mister newsom how Trump was lying and wrong and doesn't know what he's talking about, because right here a Corners report by CBS News Local CBS by the way, CBS thirteen out here in California, looks like the project was held up or is being held up over concerns of this small fish that you deny. There's any involvement with that you deny is holding anything up? Well, maybe you didn't know. Maybe you are an incompetent idiot, like everybody thinks Cavin New So maybe you aren't, or maybe you didn't know because this report came out in twenty twenty four. I know you're busy. You're touring around trying to make sure that everybody knows that you might be a candidate to become president, which given the situation of California for the last or at least your time in office, to be exact, it's been a disaster. It's been a disaster. But let me go to this, to this other report here from Farm Progress.

37:51 So the farmers have always been very very conscious of the water situation here in California because they need it for their farms. Here's here's this is great, that's great, gavinus, he denies anything. Right, I don't know anything about this Delta smell. I don't know I know nothing about this Sacramento project that Trump is talking about. All right, here's a report from two thousand and seven, two thousand and seven, Delta smelt shuts down major water supply. Hold it. Whoa, whoa, whoa Wait a Minutekevin, Babykevin, listen, listen, hold on here. That you just say I knew nothing about it, you'll know what Trump's talking about. Referring to some small fish blah blah blah Delta smell. N there's no Sacramento project.

38:36 I don't know what he's talking about. They've been talking about this Delta smelt as far as back as two thousand and seven, two thousand and seven. It's been holding up water systems, it's been holding up water projects. Cavin takes some fucking responsibility. So if we're gonna start pointing fingers, Gavin wants to point fingers that Trump Trump point fingers at Gavin. Gavin wants to blame Mayor Karen Bass and the local you know, bureaucracies and government agencies down there in southern California. But hey, man, Ultimately, you are responsible. You're very aware of all these projects because all of this needs your final approval. Don't tell me you don't know what's going on. So yeah, our water systems in California, water stores have been mishandled at least back as far as two thousand and seven. They've been proposing this project in Sacramento to help feed the needs of southern California as far back as two thousand and seven, if not even earlier. I'm just going back as far as I found it to be recorded. I mean, I could dive deeper in this, but I think everybody is starting to see the picture here. Get the whole picture. Get the point.

39:54 Gavin Newsom is an incompetent liar who's just trying to save his ass. That's what's going on here. That is the reality. That's what's happening. But hey, to put further insult to injury here Beyond the water, let's talk about the LA Fire Department. Let's talk about something that happens very often. And I can tell you this from personal experience, because I've sat in many board meetings for cities and counties, and I'm going to tell you right now that when it comes to funding, fire departments always get the bad end of the stick. Fire departments are always on the chopping block, specifically their employees. The labor side is always deemed to be expensive, and many times, you know, there are small cities that decide, hey, we don't need a fire department. We're going to make the county take take control of everything and provide, and the county is now on the hook for it. I have no idea why this is a thing in California. Why nobody thinks that funding and supplying the needs of your fire department is important.

41:02 But the fire department outside to put on fires are always usually your first responders. They're there before the ambulances get there. Now, I talked about some of this with my brother on our show Random Thoughts with Manuel and George. Check that out. I think you're going to find it insightful and also hilarious as we you know, we tend to let loose on that particular podcast. But I want to point something out when it comes to the funding and what has been going on. Remember the rumor, Remember the story about the seventeen and a half million dollars that the LA Fire chief was saying Hey, you know La County LA wanted to take that and strip that from us, and Eryody was saying, oh, you're lying, that was never the case, that wasn't true. Well, you're right, it's not true. It's actually projected to be much higher.

41:50 I'm going to go over some numbers with you now. I'm going to give a shout out, little hat tip over to an x account here for this information. It's Teats Sanchez tee t Z Sanchez handle is at Bengal for Everson all one word as Bengal b E n g A L number four. Ever since he provided some information when he was responding to someone who was claiming actually responded to Gavin Newson himself. This is funny. I want to read this post. So Gavin says, I am calling for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ennez Reservoir. Well, I just went over a lot of reasons as why that you didn't have enough water, Gavin. But teets here responds, and I love it. He's got he's got pictures and clippings from you know here. Let me just blow this up and read this year. So here's here's the department update from January twenty sixth of this year, twenty twenty five. Now, everyone said the seventeen and a half million dollars that everyone was talking about of being cut from the fire department was was an absolute lyne and you're right, may maybe it was a flabba lie. I don't know, because according to this Operations Valley Bureau, which includes the La Fire Department, Okay, and the Fire Chief Board of Fire Commission, the CoA, and the UFLAC or La County, they're proposing

43:24 a budgetary cut for your twenty twenty four twenty twenty five of forty eight point eight million dollars. They want to reduce the budget to fire protection, fire response the fire Department in La County by forty eight point eight million, and it says that the only way to provide a cost savings would be to close as many as sixteen fire stations. Huh. It says that the LA Fire Department Superintendent will be added to all LA Fire Department brush assigned meants to coordinate La County hand crews. So they're going to take all these resources and then add more onto the superintendents or the LA fire departments superintendents shoulders huh.

44:15 Now they're claiming that resources while those stations would be closed, will be reallocated, but it does not ever say that they will continue to bolster or replenish those resources at the same levels after they've gone through what was given to the sixteen fire stations that they're proposing to close. Now, let's keep going over this situation and this proposal, because here's where that seventeen and a half million dollars came from. And outside of closing fire stations, it was specifically aimed at cutting staff, as it always is, as it always Believe me, I've sat in so many meetings, so many city county meetings that I have I have first hand knowledge that this fuckery goes on. They're always trying to cut the budget of the fire department. They're always trying to justify why they even need to pay for one.

45:09 It's ridiculous, this ludicrous, It makes no sense. So the's seventeen and a half million dollars that was going on or what was that was floating around the internet and on social media that everybody says was a hoax, No, it was not. It was seventeen and a half million dollars that was part of this forty eight million dollar reduction. The reason the seventeen point five million dollars was narrowed or focused in on was because it really attacked the amount of staff. Okay, let me go over some of these numbers. The adopted budget of twenty three twenty four budget changes and the budget for twenty five twenty four to twenty five. They're trying to propose so salaries, general salaries.

45:50 They want to reduce it by about four million dollars. They also want to reduce over time by two million, over time by variables staff. You know, I don't know if that's like overflow people you need to fight fires in addition to or night crews. But anyway, they were reduced at by almost six million. And they want to reduce expenses. We're talking about contractual services. They want to reduce by four million. They want to reduce uniform uniforms guys uniforms by almost one point five million. They want to get rid of administrative costs by only two hundred thousand oz. Hey hey, fuck the firemen, fuck the firefighters.

46:30 Let's let's let's let's gouge them the most, but office staff and we only need to do a slight reduction operating supplies. They want to reduce operating supplies by almost thirteen million dollars, okay, thirteen million. Those operating supplies are things that the firefighters need, things they need to fight the fires. So when you add all this up, now there's an offset and sworn bonuses, so they do want to increase bonuses by a little, and they want to increase some overtime here as well. It looks like some other staffing, so they want to increase that by looks like twenty five million, twenty six minutes. So some things are kind of offset here. But overall they want to cut over seventeen million, five hundred thousand dollars from the fire department for the twenty four to twenty five budget year.

47:36 So more is being revealed. Who's responsible In the end, is it Trump's fault? Gavin? Because he called you out because he said you're more concerned with a small fish. You denied it, but I just proved you're wrong. You said you didn't know anything about that northern water that Trump was referring to, But then I proved you're wrong again. Come Gavin, you can't do this, Kevin had As I said, this is public information. I found it, and if I found it, I'm gonna tell you right now, there are way more capable journalists that can dig even deeper and make you look like an even I don't know how, but an even more incompetent idiot. This, this, in the end, falls on your shoulders, Gavin.

48:21 The mismanagement of our forests, the mismanagement of our water supplies and water stores, the constant delay of products being completed due to environmental factors, all adds up to failure, and Gavin, you are ultimately the one to blame. Just admit you're wrong. Just admit that you're wrong. You're going to I mean, you have no other play at this point. So and conclusion, because I've been going a while and I know this is pretty data packed and it's just a lot of numbers and whatnot. I want everybody to understand, Yes, California has one water. Does it have water in every single little area? No, But overall we have enough water to spread around and share the wealth with others. California can't take care of its own. And I didn't even talk about the two billion gallons of water that are pumped out of reservoirs almost every day because of overflow.

49:20 I didn't even tell you about that, but that's that's another ridiculous amount of water that's being pumped out. So again, if we didn't have enough water, then why are we pumping water out of our reservoirs in the ocean to make way for snow mountain overflow? Why are we trying to expand our reservoir stores to hold more of this water so we don't have to pump it up? And more importantly, while I've already proven that we do have enough water stores and that there's money put aside to increase those capacities and build new ones, ultimately, the failure that happened in the water supply to the hydrants came down to the fact that these projects, all this money's two point seven billion dollars that was allotted for these projects to happen, haven't happened yet. Most of them we're not even going to be completed. As I said, until twenty thirty twenty fifty, there was not enough tanks. There's only three million gallons worth of storage capacity that did not keep up with the demand to put the palistape fires out period. They need to double that capacity at least, and they need to improve on the pump systems to get up the hill. This comes down to a mismanagement problem, and I don't know who's exactly the blame. Gavin, you're in charge of California. You can talk about investigations all

50:51 you want, but man, you know what, you got to get off your ass, get in there and hold people accountable. I don't care if they're your buddies. I don't care if they're Democrats or Republicans, doesn't fucking matter. Man, At this point, you got to hold people accountable. If you got people making seven hundred and fifty thousand a year, that CEO, for example, for the LA Department of Water and Power, if she's making seven hundred thousand dollars a year. If you've got Karen Bass out there, the mayor of LA, making over three hundred thousand. If these people are very highly paid, you have every right to hold them accountable, and you need to hold them accountable. You want to show everybody you're a good governor. Stop being a pussy, take care of everybody. Get down to the bottom of the situation and make sure that you hold them accountable.

51:39 And you have to ask the question, what is holding up these projects? Because everything that has been holding these projects up has contributed to the detriment of everybody's safety in that area of southern California. It's a it's a direct threat. The water needs to flow. Happen, listen, California needs to cut the bullshit, stop worrying about little things that in the long run don't really matter because when it came to that delta's mouth, they're primarily found up in the San Francisco area. So what do we are. It's like we're shooting ourselves in the foot out here in California. And yes, ultimately, Gavin, it does fall on your shoulders no matter what you say in the end, this is your fault. Well, thanks for listening. Remember to like, subscribe and share the show. That's all I ask, and have a great day.

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