This is the Friends of History, Debating Society. I'm John Boucher with the CEO and guru of

Truth Social, former member of Congress, Evan Nunes. We begin with the valley, the storms

that have swept over California these last weeks, especially the atmospheric rivers, seven

or eight of them that pummeled the coastline, also brought great relief after three years

of drought, nearly three years of drought, into the Central Valley, the San Joaquin Valley,

the bread basket of the solar system. Now, big storm systems coming in with snow and

lots more rain and flooding. The question is, is this enough for the Central Valley? Is

the Central Valley now replenished, especially the aquifer? What have you learned, Evan?

Well, John, when we last discussed the California water crisis, I kind of gave you a warning

that yes, these were, it was a phenomenal December, the atmospheric rivers, that we tend to

get in California about every decade to 15 years and it just drops a tremendous amount of rain,

and I think it was almost close to a record month in December as I recall. But then I warned you, John,

that we were only halfway through and that essentially for California now to have water,

because we don't use the infrastructure that's been built and we just let the water go out to the

ocean, we don't save the water and move the water around the way the systems were designed to be

built to withstand a five years of drought. That only works if you move the water around, if you

store water and move it. Well, we haven't been doing that for the last 25 years, so what happens is

the only time we have water is we need catastrophic flooding. So five years ago, we had a really wet

winter, so for that one year, we had water. Now, this sad part is, is that one wet year should have

been enough water and would, it would have been enough to last all the way through this three year

drought, but because they let all the water go, it didn't work. So now we need a drain and I warned

you and I said, John, just because we've had this rain, it doesn't mean anything right now, it means

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