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LEVI: “It is catastrophic. Looking at the news, I’m in Austin, Texas, and I'm watching the news, it looks like I’m watching a post-apocalyptic war film, it's so sad. And ultimately, why we have ended up in this place? I mean I have been hearing you on your show leading into the segment, I mean, I think you are hitting a lot of it on the head. This is just incredible mismanagement, incredibly poor leadership. I would go so far as to say that it's criminally negligent, because, I mean, Gavin Newsom has been either the governor for five years or lieutenant governor prior to that for eight or nine years. Some of the worst fire as we have ever had in California under that watch. He clearly knows that the biggest problem that we suffer in California are these fires and, by the way, the mudslides that follow. And for them to do, essentially, not just nothing, but worse than nothing, when firefighter budgets are being cut, when they are specifically, intentionally not doing the work that could be done to avoid these problems or to be able to effectively serve them when they are happening, we are losing — I mean, I think it’s something like millions of acres of feet of water runoff from rain and snow every year in California. As you pointed out. I think the smelt have something to do with that. That's — an acre foot of water, by the way, is about 330,000 gallons of water. And there is millions of those that are just rolling off into the ocean when they could be captured in cisterns. We could have an ecosystem of hoses and safety measures that can keep all of these homes and people in these homes safe, and for some reason they choose to do none of that. And at some point it goes beyond just whoopsie. At some point it goes beyond negligence. There is something that's almost criminally intentional about this. What are they doing? I don’t know."