Good News. South Carolina is out of the drought.
I got over 9 inches in my yard since last night and one tree down.
I'm glad. I was getting tired of hearing about the drought. I just hope the Greenville Spartanburg airport got the 3.7 inches of rain they needed to end their drought.
How about you? Is it dry?
I'm glad. I was getting tired of hearing about the drought. I just hope the Greenville Spartanburg airport got the 3.7 inches of rain they needed to end their drought.
How about you? Is it dry?
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Hopefully I can borrow a neighbors chain saw. I just did him a favor last week. Hopefully he still has it.
I guess most would have preferred to have the drought go away slowly.
California is in the middle of an extreme drought, or this is what they call it. Rain has been very low for two years. But the real problem is just that the land cannot support this many people, even with above average rainfall.
No water has reached the Colorado River's Delta in decades. We have turned it into an inland sea. The water goes to the greater Los Angeles sprawl and the greater Phoenix sprawl. I imagine that in not too much more time they will be shutting down the lower reservoirs. No reason to send water there or try to run the hydro-electric dams. It just means more lost in evaporation. Tap water for Mexico will just come off of the same Phoenix and Tucson water systems which it must now come off of.
Agriculture uses lots of water. Some say the kinds we have would be better suited to other places, like Alabama.
People say the country is running out of residential land. This is very misleading. There is lots of land in the South West. It is just that the population carrying capacity is not determined by land, it is determined by water.
Real Estate has always been the biggest racket in California, going back to at least 1849. This how we have gotten into this situation. Some years of above average rainfall will not fix it.
SJG
Rolling Stones, 1981
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The Colorado river us not being solely sucked up by the sprawls of LA and Phoenix, when in reality it is part of a 7 state consortium including Wyoming for the appropriations if that water. Claims and settlements for BIA (native Americans) have increased lately due to finalized litigation. Most of California's water source comes from the Sierra Nevadas, not the Colorado river. You see you just threw a red herring out there that sniffs the reader off the correct source of issues. In regards to the Colorado river, it has several times flown into the delta in Mexico, most recently one and two years ago due to heavy desert storms creating run off that could not be captured by Hoover Dam or Lake Powell positioned higher up river. There has not been a steady flow into the delta in decades, but there have been several years when the flow helps fill it up from flooding south of Powell and Lake Mead. Also, Mexico retains rights to a portion of Colirado river water and they can choose to let it run to the ocean if they so choose to let it, however Mexico prefers to sell it or maintain it for their own use.
SJG, please place a disclaimer after your posts that state you vaguely know something about topics and try to yarn a whimsical take off the voices you talk to in your head. Or maybe I should just place you on ignore like that faggot Rickyboy you like so much.
California may indeed get most of it's water from the Sierras. I don't know the percentage and I didn't claim to. But SoCal is where the larger part of the population is, and they have gotten their water always from elsewhere.
But even here in Santa Clara County we have a serious shortage.
But the problem is still that the population level and the scale and type of agriculture being practiced are beyond the water we get in an average or above average year. We are in a drought, but that is not really the source of the problem.
SJG
once again you prove to the world you don’t ever have a fucking clue about anything.
while you are sitting in your mother’s basement slurping down gravy why don’t you look up the California Aqueduct.
Southern California, you know where most of the people live, gets its fucking water from the Sierra Nevada same as the people in Northern California you fucking IMBECILE.
There are several trees down in the local counties. Someone told me there was a tornado in the area. I know some people claim a tornado when it was just high winds.
I bet the people in Columbia SC aren't happy with a 6 pm curfew.
I want to have a TUSCL meet up in San Jose area to discuss these issues. Will you join us?
Temps were also way down, high yesterday 71 and only 69 the day before. What a difference a few miles can make!
SJG
I told a dancer Saturday night it would be nice if it just poured down and got it over with rather than drizzle for days and days. Then the deluge came. it was already pouring down at the coast apparently. I talked to someone where I live and he said a tornado did a bunch of damage. I was wondering why I had so much rain in my yard and a tree down. It may not have touched down in my area but I could tell it was a lot windier closer to home.