Gavin Newsom: “Those were the three years consecutive drought, the likes of…”

“In 2022, we realized that we were back in a Drought. Now we had this five year historic drought, 2020, 2021. We're like, can't be happening again. Following up even to 2022, you recall, Those were the three years consecutive drought, the likes of which we had never had consecutively in our state's history. Two times in 15 years, millennial droughts, a chance 1 in 1,000 that either of them would happen. They both happen in 15 years.” (10:23–10:33)

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