On 5/24/2015 4:23 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Cheri wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
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>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
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>>>> Ophelia wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Cabrito del Bosque" > wrote in message
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>>>>>> On 5/24/2015 4:32 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is anyone here affected? It sounds very frightening!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The worst thing imaginable is IF this becomes part of the
>> predicted >>>> megadrought in the Western US.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>> http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044538/w...s/5-things-cal
>>>>>> ifornia-can-do-to-survive-a-megadrought
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. SAY GOODBYE TO THE LAWN
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. REDESIGN CITIES AS SPONGES
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. RETHINK THE ALMOND
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 4. FIX THE PIPES
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 5. SMARTER DESALINATION
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They'll need to move quickly on all of the above.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And we'll all need to get used to buying more produce from
>> Mexico.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh dear
>>>>
>>>> Ophelia, relax. He's massively overestimated the food issues for
>>>> example. It could be people in California (southern part) might
>>>> get more food from south of them but the only real effect will be
>>>> the big wine industry, yet most grapes are pretty tolerant of
>>>> drought, producing simply less grapes.
>>>>
>>>> California does have the biggest ticket sales but that is
>>>> becsause they export most of it as in fancy stuff you might find
>>>> on your shelves. It's not an never has been a breadbasket of the
>>>> USA. Not a single product grown there in any quantity hits our
>>>> top 10 food exports for example.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not saying it isnt serious, but neither they nor we will go
>>>> hungry over California's drought.
>>>
>>> It sounds pretty serious to me
>>
>> It is, but not to people who don't live here. It all depends on whose
>> ox is getting gored in these cases.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> I didnt ay it isnt serious for you folks. I said it is bogus that it
> will cause wild famine in the USA.

OK, so who said "famine"?

Huh?

> The product from California are
> largly luxury items or produced in near the same amounts elsewhere in
> the USA.

Dead wrong, as posted and proved already.