We will rebuild.
The giant rain storm socking Southern California all day today is filling up swimming pools, open dumpsters, and the mudpits where our burned-down homes used to stand. What it’s not filling up are enough RESERVOIRS.
LA County loses millions of gallons of stormwater to the ocean every year because the region’s infrastructure was built 70–100 years ago for flood control, not rain capture. Capacity could double if the area infrastructure was modernized, but we all know that the money for that has already been wasted on fraud and corruption.
L.A. County will continue to import two-thirds of its water from far-away snowmelt, and continue to charge residents exorbitant rates for imported water, forever–no matter how much rain falls.