Oh brother.
President Biden’s visit to Santa Cruz County last week gave Newsom a chance to pose in front of the presidential seal. (I remember the days when the presidential seal wasn’t hung until the president approached the podium to speak.) Make no mistake, Newsom is licking his chops to take over, whether in 2025 or 2029. He wants to extend his failed leadership to the rest of the country as he’s done in California.
Boys and girls, the special word in the governor’s speech was “mega.” Newsom suggested that the recent storms were “mega” floods – the worst in 1,200 years, he said although not as bad as the flood of 1862. I’m pretty sure there were no weather stations in California in 823 AD so he can make that claim all he wants without any record to back up his ludicrous claim but if the governor repeats it enough, the gullible among us will parrot it back in circle of friends.
And someone might point out to the governor that the Central Valley would be a giant lake right now if it wasn’t for the vision of men who built the Don Pedro Dam in 1922 and later expanded it in 1971, as well as build the New Melones in 1979 to hold back those floodwaters. But if we had a Newsom type governor back in the 1920s instead of Republican Gov. William Stephens, we’d all be living in a flood plain.
Floods are common on the planet and always have been. But Americans are ignorant of their history.
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