Journalists are bad at math
Even while hearing Iranian drones fly by my apartment window, like most of the rest of the world, I have been drawn to the horrors of the fires that are consuming Los Angeles. The news media is falling short in similar ways in covering both Los Angeles and Ukraine.
The Santa Ynez reservoir served Pacific Palisades, a community of 24,000 now devastated by the wildfires. Despite 2023 being one of LA’s wettest years, the reservoir has been under repair and empty for at least a year.
NBC News interviewed Marty Adams, the recently retired General Manager and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who presumably had some say in whether to close the reservoir and how long to close it.
