Will trump Provide Emergency Relief For California?

...or will he withhold those funds to punish California for it's decision to become a sanctuary state?

Evacuations ordered below Oroville Dam after a hole is found in its emergency spillway

By Anna M. Phillips, Matt Hamilton, Paige St. John and Chris Megerian

February 13, 2017

Workers are expected on Monday to begin repairing erosion at the emergency spillway at Lake Oroville that threatened to flood downstream towns and forced more than 100,000 people from their homes Sunday.

Gov. Jerry Brown late Sunday issued an emergency order aimed at speeding up state aid for the Oroville efforts.

“I’ve been in close contact with emergency personnel managing the situation in Oroville throughout the weekend and it’s clear the circumstances are complex and rapidly changing,” Brown said in a statement. “I want to thank local and state law enforcement for leading evacuation efforts and doing their part to keep residents safe. The state is directing all necessary personnel and resources to deal with this very serious situation.”


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Jerry Brown requests presidential disaster declaration for January storms

February 10, 2017
Jim Miller
The Sacramento Bee

Gov. Jerry Brown has asked President Donald Trump to declare a major disaster for the state because of damage caused by powerful storms last month, with Friday’s request an initial step in seeking federal aid.

Brown’s letter to Trump cites an “atmospheric river storm system” that unleashed days of “relentless heavy precipitation” and high winds beginning Jan. 3, causing flash floods, power outages and damage to public works.

“The impacts associated with this series of storms were substantial and widespread, devastating much of California,” the letter reads. The storms, it said, contributed to eight deaths in seven counties.

The storms prompted Brown to declare a state of emergency in 49 counties Jan. 23. Friday, the governor added three counties to last month’s declaration: Amador, Mono and Riverside.

In Friday’s letter, Brown said years of years of drought had left the ground unable to absorb “massive amounts of rainfall in such a short period of time.” The letter estimates that public assistance expenditures will exceed $162.3 million.

Some of the specific damages listed in the request letter:

▪ “Placer County Water Agency’s American River potable water intake facility suffered damage to four intake plates and siphoning screens, causing the headwall to be undermined and scouring to occur.”

▪ “Browns Valley Irrigation District’s Yuba River Diversion Channel reached capacity, requiring emergency excavation and dredging.”

▪ “Storm debris filled Lake Francis in Dobbins.”

▪ “Residents of Alta were isolated when a 110-foot long section of the only access road collapsed, causing serious risk to public health and safety.”

 

In the letter, trump is referred to as "honorable", which is of course a lie. There is nothing honorable about trump, he's a despot, a dictator, a despicable pile of orange dung. Will he refuse to provide emergency funds for California to spite them for declaring themselves a sanctuary state? Is he going to "make a deal" with them, that if they give up that status and allow deportations to occur they can have funding?

My guess is that he's going to make the attempt.

 

You're a freedom-hating racist who obviously hates Scottish-Americans. Racist!!

 

Of course Trump will try something that stupid. He is an idiot like his supporters.

 

You mean like this?:

I see your point, Joe.

 

Still no response from the trump administration.

 

trump is still silent, FEMA on site.

 

California ought to take Holder's salary and use it to fix the dam.

 

This is what nearly 8 years of Republican obstructionism has done to our infrastructure. Roads, bridges, dams, all crumbling so that Obama couldn't use infrastructure jobs to decrease unemployment. Party over country.

 

Five days later and not a word from trump about the emergency declaration in California. Ignoring your own country out of spite isn't Presidential, asshole.

 

Fake comment, fake news, even the sniveler knows it. What was Obama's Trillion $ Stimulus for? Roads, bridges, infastructure? Shovel ready jobs?
California blew it's emergency fund on welfare to illegals. Envirokooks stopped the repair more than a decade ago. CA Gov Brown has declared war on the system and American citizens, yet, comes back sniveling for money and aid.
Nothing new here, just liberal desperate ly praying for another tax payer bailout.
Yes, America will step up and help those affected, but it won't be because any liberal policy's or backup plans.

 

Your post is full of questionable bald assertions, but this in particular stood out for me. Do you have anything that supports this claim? I ask because the facts directly contradict what you wrote.

"Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago" | The Mercury News

 

Alternative facts. You forgot about alternative facts.

 

A week later and still nothing from trump.

 

What about local government, or state government? Look at the ignorance of this fool Clueless. You expect the feds to wipe your lazy ass too? How about being self sufficient? Nope. Depend on the feds for every fucking thing. Pitiful example of a citizen you are clueless!!!!!

 

BTW;
A government stimulus funded under the Obama Administration paid for safety improvements to a California dam that was “in good shape,” but allocated zero dollars to Oroville, perFree Beacon.

While officials have warned of Oroville erosion for nearly a decade, the dam received none of the $34 billion in funding that California received for infrastructure projects.
http://www.sarahpalin.com/bad-news-report-says-california-saved-oroville-dam-heres/

 

That appears to be a characteristic of people who hate liberals. They view events through their biased beliefs, and in no time at all it's the liberal's fault for everything.

We can remind them of the truth, and show proof that they are wrong, but their hatred for liberals is stronger than any actual desire for truth. They hate liberals to such a degree that they literally cannot accept reality.

I have to ask myself if it's the same the other way around, that liberals hate conservatives to such a degree. In my opinion, no....but then again, I'm a liberal.

However, I've seen how liberals accept reality, accept blame for when they are wrong, where conservatives do not. I also say that liberals are no where near as hateful of conservatives as conservatives are of liberals, and that allows liberals to be more honest with themselves and others, to not allow personal bias to get to the point where we deny reality itself.