Is there anybody who’s done the analysis on his bad it will be? California’s online tracker shows right now that nearly every major reservoir in the state is above the historical average level for March 15th. The system as a whole is at over 78% of capacity. The news stories that I found put the releases at of 2.2 billion gallons, which is not much. (The lake near me contains about 133 billion gallons.) They were from Lake Kaweah and Lake Success, both reservoirs which primarily serve flood-control functions.

I’ll continue to explain this as long as it’s still relevant: People hear words differently based on their beliefs. We hear “law” as rules that everybody must follow. They hear “law” as state power, or agents of the state who wield that power, like in “the law is at the door.”

That means we hear “rule of law” to mean that even the powerful have to obey the rules like the rest of us. They hear “rule of law” as the exercise of state power by its agents (police, ICE, ATF, et al.), and they prefer it to be exercised vigorously against outgroups.