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This is revealing, but won’t come as a surprise:

The Army Corps of Engineers knew that Trump’s order to release water in California wildfires was actually the very height of stupidity.


The Army Corps of Engineers colonel responsible for releasing water from two California reservoirs at President Donald Trump’s direction in January knew that it was unlikely to reach the southern part of the state as Trump had promised, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

The agency carried out Trump’s directive, which came in the wake of catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles County, on short notice on Jan. 30, though it would normally require days to coordinate. A memo written four days after the release, obtained by The Post through a public records request, shows how federal officials rushed ahead with the plan to release irrigation water despite objections from the state’s elected officials and some local farmers.

Col. Chad W. Caldwell, commander of the Army Corps’ Sacramento district, wrote that the water that poured out of Lake Kaweah and Success Lake “could not be delivered to Southern California directly.” To do so would have required several steps of coordination with state and federal agencies to transport the water to a rarely used connection point, and it quickly became clear that was impossible in such little time, according to the memo.

The first that Department of Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth heard about the planned release came in a phone call from an Army Corps colonel around noon that day, according to a state water official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private communications.

Other water entities, such as local irrigation districts and the State Water Resources Control Board, also received notice from the Army Corps on the same day as the water release began.

Many were alarmed when they found out.

For the farmers in the Central Valley, it was not irrigation season, and this was their precious summer supply. It had been an abnormally dry January, snowpack was low, and an atmospheric river headed toward California was not forecast to significantly affect the two reservoirs in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada.


And, of course, Trump was proud to broadcast his innate stupidity to the world:


View: https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1885473025476145386


View: https://x.com/RepMikeLevin/status/1898051677934039235
 
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Red said:
This is revealing, but won’t come as a surprise:

The Army Corps of Engineers knew that Trump’s order to release water in California wildfires was actually the very height of stupidity.


The Army Corps of Engineers colonel responsible for releasing water from two California reservoirs at President Donald Trump’s direction in January knew that it was unlikely to reach the southern part of the state as Trump had promised, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

The agency carried out Trump’s directive, which came in the wake of catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles County, on short notice on Jan. 30, though it would normally require days to coordinate. A memo written four days after the release, obtained by The Post through a public records request, shows how federal officials rushed ahead with the plan to release irrigation water despite objections from the state’s elected officials and some local farmers.

Col. Chad W. Caldwell, commander of the Army Corps’ Sacramento district, wrote that the water that poured out of Lake Kaweah and Success Lake “could not be delivered to Southern California directly.” To do so would have required several steps of coordination with state and federal agencies to transport the water to a rarely used connection point, and it quickly became clear that was impossible in such little time, according to the memo.

The first that Department of Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth heard about the planned release came in a phone call from an Army Corps colonel around noon that day, according to a state water official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private communications.

Other water entities, such as local irrigation districts and the State Water Resources Control Board, also received notice from the Army Corps on the same day as the water release began.

Many were alarmed when they found out.

For the farmers in the Central Valley, it was not irrigation season, and this was their precious summer supply. It had been an abnormally dry January, snowpack was low, and an atmospheric river headed toward California was not forecast to significantly affect the two reservoirs in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada.


And, of course, Trump was proud to broadcast his innate stupidity to the world:


View: https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1885473025476145386


View: https://x.com/RepMikeLevin/status/1898051677934039235
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Well ya it was obvious to me that trumps plan all along was to sabotage the state of California for the coming year of crops which also hurts the United States as a whole which would make Putin happy.
So for trump, wasting that water was a tremendous success.

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fishonjazz said:
Well ya it was obvious to me that trumps plan all along was to sabotage the state of California for the coming year of crops which also hurts the United States as a whole which would make Putin happy.
So for trump, wasting that water was a tremendous success.

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Yes, Trump’s task is to weaken the United States from within, while joining a new Axis of Evil on the international stage.
 
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