Gavin Newsom: “Five years of historic drought [occurred in California from…”

“It seems like forever ago I was lieutenant governor watching then Governor Jerry Brown struggling with managing Mother Nature who bats last and bats a thousand. She's chemistry, biology and Physics. 2012, that was pretty evident in 13, 14, 2015 and 16, Five years of historic drought [occurred in California from 2012 to 2016]. I remember in 2015 that historic and iconic photo of Jerry Brown as we were up there doing our annual snow survey, the lowest snowpack in recorded history in the state of California.” (10:13–10:18)

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