OT California
On 5/24/2015 10:14 AM, taxed and spent wrote:
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>>>>>>> I have noticed several people here mention California. We have had a
>>>>>>> lot of stuff on tv about the lack of water there. We were shown the
>>>>>>> huge reservoirs with very little water in them. They were showing how
>>>>>>> people with lush grass and full swimming pools were being demonised.
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>>>>>>> Is anyone here affected? It sounds very frightening!
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>>>>>> Everyone in CA is affected. And since CA grows half the country's
>>>>>> food, half the country is affected as well. My town is ordering a 35%
>>>>>> cutback on water use with fines for offenders. NASA says this is the
>>>>>> last year we will have water in the reservoirs. So next year we
>>>>>> should
>>>>>> be in full anarchy mode I expect. Fox News blames it on illegal
>>>>>> immigrants.
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>>>>> But I still have not heard any talk about adding storage capacity or
>>>>> groundwater replenishment basins, for the times we do have rain.
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>>>> So the prediction of anarchy might not be too far away from the truth??
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>>> I don't see anarchy arising from our current totalitarian state.
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>> Where will your water come from? Are you in California?
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> We will have rain next winter, and then all will be forgotten. And then
> everyone will be surprised when we have insufficient water during the next
> totally predictable drought.
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There's an el Nino already formed, but it hasn't helped Cali much...yet...
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