• Nougat
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    75 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.

  • @grue
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    307 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
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    8 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.

  • Majorllama
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    389 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.

  • @Lon3star
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    5810 hours ago

    What could possibly go wrong…

        • @[email protected]OP
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          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
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            76 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        198 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.

  • mesamune
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    239 hours ago

    This is very bad…summer this year is going to be very expensive for water.

    • @thesohoriots
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      58 hours ago

      A drought? Put some white spray paint over it.