Los Angeles is not having water shortages. This is a bullshit right-wing talking point. 95% of Angelenos have had uninterrupted water supply throughout these wildfires. The issues in the hills have to do with uphill pumping issues, and tank storage in the hills. - ThreadSky

brockm.bsky.social • 45 days ago

Los Angeles is not having water shortages. This is a bullshit right-wing talking point. 95% of Angelenos have had uninterrupted water supply throughout these wildfires. The issues in the hills have to do with uphill pumping issues, and tank storage in the hills.

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akranda.bsky.social•44 days ago

What else would you expect from a retrumplican politician

phasmatic.bsky.social•44 days ago

It’s not possible to meaningfully fight a Santa Ana firestorm with hoses anyway.

timothystamm101.bsky.social•44 days ago

Has to be with fire breaks, right?

phasmatic.bsky.social•44 days ago

In these types of winds, those may not help much either. You can have embers blown downwind for a mile or more.

timothystamm101.bsky.social•44 days ago

Meaning you would have to have a very large break or hope it runs into the place that has already burned recently. That last scenario seems to have happened today in the west.

msmaura.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yes NPR reported that. Of course I really didn't have to look it up bc I knew it was BS but I did.

lovedrugslaw.bsky.social•44 days ago

Also: it’s a desert

jude2025.bsky.social•44 days ago

They've been stealing water from other parts of the state for years, so of course they have enough water.

brockm.bsky.social•45 days ago

The fact that the post-truth right has tried to turn this into an issue of California's general water management, without any nuance of understanding about what might have been going on, shows these people to be fundamentally unserious people.

michexposures.bsky.social•44 days ago

You can just jump ahead to the fundamentally unserious part.

kmcn13.bsky.social•45 days ago

I wish that were the case.

dianeb1.bsky.social•45 days ago

Simply saying that they are fundamentally unserious is generous.

cowchaser24.bsky.social•44 days ago

I read they were running at 4x capacity for 12 hours straight

hmabe.bsky.social•44 days ago

If it comes out of 45’s mouth, we know it’s a lie

dirigoblue.bsky.social•44 days ago

Gravity is hard!

beetsrgood.bsky.social•44 days ago

Like rain, gravity also comes from heaven. Miraculous concept if you can grab it.

hozman911.bsky.social•44 days ago

Agreed but not only that. I challenge any community to have hundreds of fire engines pumping an average of 1,000 gallons per minute run into water supply issues. Do the math. Water distribution systems have a finite carrying capacity. I’m sick of everything being politicized.

dianeb1.bsky.social•45 days ago

And I assume that pumping stations don't work when there is no power.

johnpalkovic.bsky.social•44 days ago

Expecting all utilities to work under extreme load conditions during a firestorm is quite stupid.

spotts1701.bsky.social•44 days ago

And to work *continuously* under that load.
The engine in your car may be able to reach 100mph. But it can’t sustain that speed indefinitely without failing or blowing up.

athenagabriel.bsky.social•44 days ago

Thanks for sharing the truth 💙💙💙

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