How long will it take before people are safe from an earthquake or a natural disaster?
GOVERNOR: Well, I don’t think — the most important thing is that the faster we come to a conclusion, and the faster we agree that we need to build more water storage and more conveyance, and the faster we agree on fixing the Delta once and for all, the faster we can go and build. Then it will take a few years, but in the meantime, we are now on the road to really protecting our population in the future so we don’t have those kinds of problems. California is extremely vulnerable right now because we had one dry winter — one dry winter, and everyone is already panicked, because we are running out of water. That’s a terrible situation to be in, and it’s all because we haven’t taken care of our infrastructure for that growing population over the last three decades, if it is transportation, if it is our schools, if it is our universities, if it is our levees, wherever you look we have fallen behind because a lot of those projects are politically risky things to do. People have been told,
