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DOGE's chaotic effort to release billions of gallons of California's water
- duxup 2y agoThis whole story is like a Hollywood style comedy script of bumbling officials more concerned with themselves and a photo op than anything else. > But DOGE’s representatives were repeatedly rebuffed by officials; the Jones pumps were temporarily offline and couldn’t pump water at the facility because of a planned PG&E power outage for line maintenance. >After the fruitless back-and-forth, Reclamation officials were informed representatives of DOGE wanted to “turn on the pumps” themselves, a person familiar with the matter said. Followed by: >But the men’s request to have a photo taken of them turning on the Jones pumps didn’t happen; Shang wasn’t an official government employee, he wasn’t allowed inside the pump facility’s control room, which is under strict cybersecurity protocols. Hassen had to travel back before the electricity was scheduled to be restored. They flew all the way out there, likely on the taxpayer's dime, to do a thing they could have called ahead and found out they couldn't do... Later: >Ultimately, 2.2 billion gallons flowed out of the two dams into a dry California lakebed before panicked local water managers and Republican and Democratic California lawmakers beseeched the Army Corps to shut it down. It was enough water to irrigate 6,000 acres of thirsty almond trees for a year. Government inefficiency and morons right there ... brought to you by the Trump Administration.
- dekhn 2y agoThe mental image I have is of barbarians, haven taken over Rome, wondering whether these acqueducts can be turned back on, flooding the city, and causing everybody to get malaria.
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- java-man 2y agoThis is a coordinated attack on the United States.