Why doesn't Trump send troops to S.C. to turn on the spigot?

@MasterLee If you're talking about his claims of sending military to turn on the spigot in California, they are laughing too hard to talk.

1. The little amount of water released from the dams was normal given the level of water with an atmospheric river storm coming in;
2. The water was all from Northern California, not from the Northwest;
3. The water didn't flow to L.A. because the canal system doesn't reach there: it flowed into the Central Valley for farm usage or into the Delta for the fisheries;
4. No Federal troops were involved. No spigot, no Federal troops, and no connection to L.A. or its water issues during the fires. Perhaps he'll find the connection in South Carolina.

@Dino11 There is plenty of fault to go around. The interface of housing and forestland has been mismanaged for decades -- a product of many factors, but largely lax local zoning and building codes not requiring proper hardening of buildings and building sites to prevent the spread of forest fires, and that has mostly to do with counties and cities hungry for local tax bases. Forestlands in general have not been managed well, over 90% of which in California are Federal such as where the L.A. fires broke out. Trump and Musk's solution to that has been to gut the understaffed National Forests further.

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