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The horrendous Jan 2025 California fires and Roanoke’s ongoing floods intersect via the endangered species act and the refusal of government leaders to take required actions to safeguard persons and property in preference to 4-inch long minnows.
In Roanoke Va. the snail darters prevented a Roanoke River renovation from solving a major ongoing flooding problem resulting in a 73-million dollar Roaoke River Bank Beatification instead of flood control.
In California the little Delta-Smelt fish resulted in major river waters being sent out to the Pacific instead of being impounded and used for green-irrigation and fire suppression along with failure to remove dead and down vegetation with controlled burns.
The so-called-environmentalist won; sanity and responsibility and people lost big in ongoing wild-fire events.
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Thousands of homes burned in Palisades, Eaton fires; more days of fire weather ahead, Jan 9, 2025.
Five people have died, more than 2,000 structures have burned and at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders because of the wildfires burning across Los Angeles County.
Southern California wildfires burn thousands of homes; fire weather ongoing - Los Angeles Times
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Reflections:
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Brown And Obama: Water For The Delta Smelt – People And Food Not So Much, 2015.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/05/brown-and-obama-water-for-delta-smelt.html
the current California Drought in which supposedly intelligent leaders have released massive amounts of reservoir water into the ocean to satisfy a totally inconsequential fish (to whit the Delta Smelt).
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Cal D Gov Brown Placing Delta-Smelt Above Fire Fighters Aug 2018
“The Trump administration believes the state’s stringent environmental protection policies are hampering efforts by firefighters to fight the largest fire in state history.
In a tweet sent Monday, President Trump said water that can be used for fires in California is “foolishly” being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.” 2018
The directive asks the federal agency to “make clear” that water can be used as necessary to fight the fires, even if they impact endangered species.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/08/cal-d-gov-brown-placing-delta-smelt.html
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California Wildfire Malfeasance 2018.
Roanoke Times, 11-15-2018, Pg 1, 6: Search on for victims of wildfires, in ‘Paradise’ death toll stands at 56, many missing
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/11/california-wildfire-malfeasance.html
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WildFire Reality: No Preemptive California Fire Containment Aug 2018
Let’s just keep listening to those know-it-all know-nothings who claim to be environmentalists but who really are just charlatans selling their own brand of false reality with no responsibility, accountability or liability!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/08/wildfire-reality-no-preemptive.html
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Brown And Obama: Water For The Delta Smelt – People And Food Not So Much
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/05/brown-and-obama-water-for-delta-smelt.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/02/lizzie-and-obama-rainman.html
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Trump Supports People 2020 – Obama, Brown and Newsom Chose Smelt
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/02/trump-supports-food-obama-brown-and.html
misuse of junk-science was also used here in Virginia, to deny Roanoke from achieving real flood-control, in favor of the snail-darters and log-perch in the Roanoke River.
In addition to chronic flooding, the latest adverse consequences of this so called ‘flood control’ boondoggle are the costs and pain of removing homeowners from their homes and demolishing their dwellings.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/03/roanoke-flooding-disaster-and-media.html
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Cal rain vs CO2
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/californias-gerry-brown-carrying-agw.html
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Santa Ana Winds Driving California Wild-Fires For 5,000-Years
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/10/santa-ana-winds-driving-wild-fires-for.html
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California Still Burning 2020
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/california-still-burning.html
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Canada Forest Fire Smoke Reaches NYC June 2023
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/06/canada-forest-fire-smoke-reaches-nyc.html
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Sunday, September 13, 2020
Munch’s Scream Relived In Oregon, California, Washington States
More than 85 major fires are burning up and down the West Coast, from Oregon, Washington to Southern California.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/09/munchs-scream-relived-in-oregon.html
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Roanoke’s Snail Darter
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/11/roanoke-flooded-again-thank-snail.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/roanokes-absurd-endangered-species-act.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/03/endangered-species-acts-personification.html
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