California Drought

[California]

huge part of the problem... many in flooded areas are new to the area... interviewed some who said they lived their 9 years an never had anything like this... then they interviewed a local who said... 1955... 1961, 1985, etc...

Clearest example proving your point: Several of my co-workers bought new homes in the same outlying new subdivision, and one rainy day at work they were talking anxiously about the water rising in the streets there. One said a few more inches and water would be inside his garage. This group of friends/neighbors were all young college-graduate Hispanics. I asked them "didn't any of you ask for a translation of 'Laguna', the traditional name of that area and the name of that new subdivision, before you bought there?"

Later it was found that this was the first time the stormwater pumps had been turned on. The developer had screwed up their installation and the emergency pumps had flooded and burned out before they removed any water from the catch basin. Property damage was minimal, thankfully.

 

[California]

Video this morning showing a big rig, a FedEx truck, tobogganing down a gentle grade sideways at 3mph.

Location near the California/Nevada state line, not even up on the summit.

Watch big rig slide to safety down I-80 east of Truckee, with CHP escort | The Sacramento Bee

 

[California]

Too much snow at Kirkwood, ski lifts buried.

Actually that is a poor location for a ski resort in my opinion. The taxpayers subsidize it by keeping open miles of roads to that remote location. The taxpayers subsidize the unemployment benefits of employees there who work one or two quarters and coast the rest of the year. The taxpayers subsidized the SBA loans that got the place going before a bankruptcy, then subsidized the new owners, I don't know how many times this cycle has been repeated. Essentially it exists to move money from taxpayer funds into the owner's pockets, the actual skiers there are heavily subsidized a half dozen ways. Its on Federal land, it would be cheaper and far more efficient for the Federal government to just grant an entitlement direct to the resort operators than subsidize so many aspects.

I once submitted an employee suggestion that switching over from plowing miles of roads to Kirkwood for free, to paying for free helicopter shuttle to take the skiiers in instead, could save the State a ton of money. Never got an answer ...

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Actually that is a poor location for a ski resort in my opinion. The taxpayers subsidize it by keeping open miles of roads to that remote location. The taxpayers subsidize the unemployment benefits of employees there who work one or two quarters and coast the rest of the year. The taxpayers subsidized the SBA loans that got the place going before a bankruptcy, then subsidized the new owners, I don't know how many times this cycle has been repeated. Essentially it exists to move money from taxpayer funds into the owner's pockets, the actual skiers there are heavily subsidized a half dozen ways. Its on Federal land, it would be cheaper and far more efficient for the Federal government to just grant an entitlement direct to the resort operators than subsidize so many aspects.

You are absolutely correct. Crony capitalism is bad for America, and both sides of the aisle are guilty, guilty, guilty.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Video this morning showing a big rig, a FedEx truck, tobogganing down a gentle grade sideways at 3mph.

Location near the California/Nevada state line, not even up on the summit.

Watch big rig slide to safety down I-80 east of Truckee, with CHP escort | The Sacramento Bee

That trucker deserves a medal! Two trailers flat trackin' nearly berm-to-berm under what looked like perfect control. I wonder how the conversation between the CHP and the trucker went before he started down?

 

[jerrybob]

Well jb may be stretching it a bit but they do grow very, very fast in wet rich soil.

We got a bunch.....like I said....they grow like weeds. Great for the shop wood stove..........top of the trees are thin but the bottom 15 to 20 ft. make great firewood. We have lots of doug fur....cedar and spruce as well.......now we're talkin trees!!!!

 

[jerrybob]

I'm pretty much convinced that all cities are run by complete morons.

Change that to all levels of government and you are absolutely correct........complete morons.

 

[dragoneggs]

We got a bunch.....like I said....they grow like weeds. Great for the shop wood stove..........top of the trees are thin but the bottom 15 to 20 ft. make great firewood. We have lots of doug fur....cedar and spruce as well.......now we're talkin trees!!!!

I've dropped, cut, split, and burned a lot of Alder. Like to drop in the winter when leaves aren't present. Easy splitting and decent burning when dry although it is light and burns fast. I agree, mix it with fir and you got something.

 

[ultrarunner]

Just about everything I mention such as tree removal permits, rent control, water restrictions, ban on new lawns, design review have all come since I was a child... I am old enough to remember a different California... one where a 1/4 of my public school class each year were newcomers and I was able to collect all 50 state license plates from people transferred to California by the time I was 10 years old...

 

[houstonscott]

Just about everything I mention such as tree removal permits, rent control, water restrictions, ban on new lawns, design review have all come since I was a child... I am old enough to remember a different California... one where a 1/4 of my public school class each year were newcomers and I was able to collect all 50 state license plates from people transferred to California by the time I was 10 years old...

Absolutely stunning what progressive liberals have done to destroy California. Very very sad... HS