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It's The End Of March And 99.85% Of California Is Abnormally Dry Already
With NASA scientists warning about California only having one year of water left, it appears The Kardashians and March Madness continue to distract Americans from the ugly looming reality of water shortages. With summer around the corner, the US Drought Minitoring service reports today that a stunning 99.85% of California is "abnormally dry," and 98.11% of the state is in drought conditions leaving over 37 million people in harm's way.
Right now the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing. California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain.
In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis.
Several steps need be taken right now.
First, immediate mandatory water rationing should be authorized across all of the state's water sectors, from domestic and municipal through agricultural and industrial. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is already considering water rationing by the summer unless conditions improve. There is no need for the rest of the state to hesitate. The public is ready. A recent Field Poll showed that 94% of Californians surveyed believe that the drought is serious, and that one-third support mandatory rationing.
Second, the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 should be accelerated. The law requires the formation of numerous, regional groundwater sustainability agencies by 2017. Then each agency must adopt a plan by 2022 and “achieve sustainability” 20 years after that. At that pace, it will be nearly 30 years before we even know what is working. By then, there may be no groundwater left to sustain.
Third, the state needs a task force of thought leaders that starts, right now, brainstorming to lay the groundwork for long-term water management strategies. Although several state task forces have been formed in response to the drought, none is focused on solving the long-term needs of a drought-prone, perennially water-stressed California.
Our state's water management is complex, but the technology and expertise exist to handle this harrowing future. It will require major changes in policy and infrastructure that could take decades to identify and act upon. Today, not tomorrow, is the time to begin.
Finally, the public must take ownership of this issue. This crisis belongs to all of us — not just to a handful of decision-makers. Water is our most important, commonly owned resource, but the public remains detached from discussions and decisions.
This process works just fine when water is in abundance. In times of crisis, however, we must demand that planning for California's water security be an honest, transparent and forward-looking process. Most important, we must make sure that there is in fact a plan.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd like to live in a state that has a paddle so that it might also still have a creek.
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CA is lop sided. It is a big state. But So Cal relies heavily on Northern CA for their taxes. That's why Northern CA doesn't wanna be associated with the South anymore and want their own state. Your benefits like most ALL federal tax benefits, go to corporations. But there are tons of ppl out of work and the cost of living is so high, you actually get all kinds of federal benefits. The farmers get benefits, the single moms get benefits, the kids born in CA get free college benefits, the Mexicans get benefits and attempt to dodge taxes. CA especially SOCAL is a sinking ship. Don't blame other states for that.
"Everyone who live just outside cali should dig foxholes and wait for them to start to leave."
That invasive species infected the pacific nw, long ago. We tried to prevent their spread but were overwhelmed by their noxious "holier than thou" narcissistic attitude.
I should just worry and wring my hands instead of watching some hoops, that will make things better...
Here in Nevada we too are in a water crisis. It is amazing to me how little is broadcast about this. Hardly any articles on MSM about our drought. We have been in Northern Nevada for over 40 years and have never witnessed a drier season then the current one. Our snowpack in Tahoe is at 9%. There will be almost no boating in Lake Tahoe this summer since the lake is too low to launch boats. Ski areas are already shutting down and the traffic for those that are open has been abysmal as is the man made snow. And how can you even make snow when the low is 39 degrees.
Las Vegas just conducts business as usual. Just check out the reservoirs, dams at Lake Powell and Lake Mead. Beyond words.
Tick Tock!
I believe Nevada has been a desert for about 100000 years...when those millions of people moved there...where did they think the water was going to come from?
Uncle Harry will provide.
Even Uncle Harry can't piss on his constiuents forever.
"Hey, get me out of here, I got a whiz to blow!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssM4KBRX_Qw
Regards,
Cooter
They drink gin and vodka not water
Same as Los Angeles-- Colorado.
My buddy lives on the Truckee River and he says its so dry it is scary.
dont know why the elites drained the water. of course nasa wont tell the truth about the powers of men.
Leave California.
Stay in California.
I can tell you they are still planting new almond orchards out there.
On farmers are turning into water brokers.
The state ground water grab is more about making it impossible for smaller farms to afford the permits for new deeper wells meanwhile the mega corporate farms are drinking everyone else's milkshakes.
The "one year left" deal is a scare tactic, but you can't water some crops with ground water for three years running due to high salinity. The salt leaches into the leaves themselves and permanent crops just die off.
All of this while the State refused to organize a coherent cloud seeding programs to fill the Sierra with snow and all those big brains in all their colleges can't/won't go public with methods to passively desalinate ocean water.
Its another disaster capitalism program.
I don't know about you, but the pictures of water reservoirs in California is pretty clear for anyone to see. https://www.google.com/search?q=california+drought&rlz=1C1WPZB_enUS621US...
Yeah Sacramento will fixit. Idjit
they wouldn't have to try to figure out how to get fresh water out of the ocean if they didn't dump it all in there from what used to be the largest freshwater reservoir in North America in the first place ("Colorado pulse flow")
Just build a massive tunnel from the Pacific to Death Valley, flood it, build a shit-ton of desal plants around the new lake . . .
it would be a lot easier to just stop dumping the water that's already there to appease the mexicans
I can already see what is going to happen to all the produce coming from that state. Might be full of idiots but the fact is a lot of the food we eat comes from Cali.
Not what I eat. Stop shopping at Walmart
Get out your divining rods you lib douches.
"With summer around the corner..."
Uh, spring commened 6 days ago. There's still a wee bit of time.
And thats just the women.
maybe TPTB could direct the "trickle down liquidity" hose to california?
What water crisis??? If they had a water crisis don't you think that they would spend billions on a pipeline and not a high speed rail system to multiple spots in an uninhabitable desert.
"California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one ..."
Well just keep on building your windmills, solar panels, bullet trains, yoga centers, progressive studies universities, overpaying your unionized workforce, giving 100% of salary pensions to your lifeguards ...
In other words just keep fu.king up everything that you Californians touch.
Instead of just building some Pacific Ocean sea water de-salination plants.
Fu.k you sh.t heads!
I've now bought the narrative here: Within twelve months this could be the leading story in the world.
Idiots.
Panicked by the drought Governor Brown is out there spending money on ... FLOOD CONTROL!
The state should be constructing desalination plants on an emergency basis, at least ten billion dollars worth, but no, we're spending money on FLOOD CONTROL! Governor Brown now officially takes his place next to Nero in the pantheon of historic idiots.
Desalination plants are entirely economic, there is no downside, and frankly everyone has known for a century they would be needed soon enough, and soon enough has arrived a bit early. This will not solve the problem of water for agriculture, but it will help about 10% within existing economics. If you want to spend a *second* ten billion on additional desalination plants to get more water for agriculture, THEN you take on some new economics and technology (greenhouses).
Obama and the Feds? Yeah sure, only after the state's golf courses are all forced to go feral.
gotta love how they have not built any water infrastructure in CA since the stupid 70s... all the while rapidly expanding and passing-the-buck to future generations.
PAYUP SUCKERS!!!
And it's true, there really is barely any snow in the Sierras right now... no snow = no water this summer.
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they have to save their money for those 6 figure pensions
Last year I left SoCal and headed east to hike the AT, I figured I was doing my part to conserve water. This year I'm staying put, spending my days bouncing around on the ocean. Interesting to see out of towners (or should I say out of staters) come in and throw down $900k cash for a small house near the ocean, little do they know what the future holds for them...
Desalizination?
Expensive as gasoline. Especially expensive if you involve the government. And the whole rest of the country and expats will be expected to pay for it via taxes, which we never run out of.
It's a fucking desert!
pipeline! Yeah I know it's not in the cards but laws can be changed.. Tap those Great Lakes.
Great lakes are already tapped by bottled water. I guess they can just continue to buy all water bottled and install supersucker shitters, like the ones on the airliner
Just scrape the water off those wetbacks, you will have plenty.
Well from what I hear the green lobby has a solution to the problem. Calf. has a few H2 refueling stations for fuel cell cars. They plan to make them manditory by 2019 and will make every driver put a plastic bucket on the end of the tail pipe to collect the water.
The Hell with numerous, regional groundwater sustainability agencies,
Just smack them on the ass point south, and say Ándale!.... adios amigo.
"99.85% of California is "abnormally dry," and 98.11% of the state is in drought conditions leaving over 37 million people in harm's way. "
Bullshit.
California is just as dry as it was a few hundred years ago before this long period of excessive moisture. People don't have long enough memories and think in terms of a few years or even decades. California is simply reverting back into historical range of moisture/rainfall.
37 million people aren't 'in harm's way' any more than anyone else is. Those people came when the weather was unusually favorable for an extended period.
These people enjoyed it thoroughly; and many will leave as the unusually favorable weather wanes.
I don't know exactly how long the higher moisture level has gone on. You're figures may be right or not. However, for sure the great settlement of California in the 20th century and particularly after WWII occurred during a wet cycle. This is true through most of the western US in fact. Las Vegas shouldn't exist. Phoenix shouldn't exist. Those places are even less sustainable than Cali. The cattle industry is unsustainable -- grazing allotments were handed out by the BLM when water, thus vegetation, was plentiful. They haven't reduced those allocations and the rangeland is being completely wrecked by over-grazing. Food and meat prices will only keep going up. Time to get back to bison.
Basically, the West was settled, urbanized and industrialized in a rich moisture environment. As you say, it was a nice wet cycle. That cycle might be ending.
Back east is looking better all the time as much as winter sucks.
Overgrazing is more than just too many cattle. It is also how ranchers manage the grazing. They just let them roam freely around, scattered. It works much better if they are bunched up tightly, heavily but briefly graze an area, then move on to the next area. Kind of like how wild animals graze when there are predators in the area. The land can support more cattle (or whatever) if they are managed this way than if they aren't managed this way.
Thanks for that EV. Practical know how is nice to pick up here and there.
Regards,
Cooter
NASA is no longer a credible source of information or data. Can we find anyone out there that really knows WTF they're talking about?
Let's send Ted Cruz and Sean Hannity there with a measuring cup and some floaties, and they can tell us how much water California has remaining.
glwt (good luck with that)
Take a few trillion the USA spends on wars of aggression and build massive solar farms in the desert and then more desalinizationi plants.
Finally, the public must take ownership of this issue. This crisis belongs to all of us
Oh Really All of us?
I am amazed that there are men like you who can be so shallow, thick and slow.
There are none who are more deserving
Of that you'll suffer and come to know.
You will see just how much of a predicament that you are in...when you are paying through the nose for fresh fruit, produce, and nuts.
Unless you like the paleolithic diet...and the prices for that will soar as well...the prices for food are set to soar as the Nation, as well as the world, has been reliant upon the abundance produced by California agribusinesses.
Bon appitite. Enjoy eating air.
Enjoy your FAMINE. In your arrogance and haughtiness you believed yourself to be immune to FAMINE? Now that is laughable.
Famine is coming to America. You will now understand, experientually, the lack which has been endured by the majority of the World's population as you somehow thought of yourself as SUPERIOR and not subjected to the forces of Nature because of your supposed exceptional brilliance.
Your God, Science, (Praises be to science...Praise science because if Science says it then it must be true as science is the one true God and the wicked unbelievers must be punished...lol), has absolutely no answer for this developing catastrophic event.
(But I know...Just like every other self important, self absorbed, and deluded 'Murican you just cannot think past yourself..or your nose..)
Californians are so stupid they think no one else can grow a tomato and we are all going to starve to death with out them. The only pleasant thought I get from that...We can last 1-2 months before we starve to death after cali runs out of water. But Californians will die in 5-8 days after the water runs out. We'll have nearly two months of blissful silence from the dipshits in cali.
Yes Kprime. I am a bit worn thin of this California BS myself. They are honestly so deluded that they think we can't survive without their shitty food? Yeah, right. When I eat asparagus, I expect nice tender shoots and my piss to smell funny. Not with with California asparagus. I might as well go chew on a tree branch. And sweet corn from CA. No, no and NO! That is barely hog food.LOL
I'm glad I'm far away. MANY parts of the country have generations of farming experience. We have good soil and good rain. Who needs em. They have big cities full of ppl who don't know how to use a shovel or maybe never even hammered a nail in board. The numbers of "great farming" statistics in CA are mostly huge mass production facilites, not local co ops and communities. They are producing GMO non organic, and not animal friendly environments with all tpyes of pesticides and chemicals (the same shit they preach against). Then they praise themselves as a state for production numbers-laughable.
TT, I noticed in your vitriolic attack that you left yourself out of the equation by continually using the word "You" as though you "You and not me". I would like for you to know that the "the we" statement jumped off the page at me as well. Being from Minnesota I object to the underlying assertion that you are insinuating. We will survive without California and it California who not surivive without us. I have time think when rolling over frozen cornfields in one these badboys. Have you ever spent a spent a day in one of those machines or any machine and rode the fields? I perceive that you have not done so. I just got home from doing so all day long as did a lot of other guys who were with me all day.
What you are failing to understand is that we really don't need you as much as you need us. You want our water and I say no. I am not paying for that shit and California has no money to pay anyway because is it is broke ass state that is already in debt up to ears. Plenty of stupid shit goes on here too don't get me wrong. Ethanol for one. Talk about wasting water? Ethanol is fucking full retard stupid. A thought popped in to my head today while on a large field and it was this: "Who did all of this work to make this what is now?" Agriculture is no fun now but what the hell was it like 100 years ago? Even I can't fathom the amount of work that went into making agriculture into what it is now and I have been in it for twenty years. Hell, I even went to school for it and ran up some debt to learn from so-called experts what I already knew to begin with. Paid that.
The fact is this; we here in the Midwest produce FAR more agricultural products than California could ever dream of producing even in the best of cases. I do not need to run the terragator up and down the fields all day long to feed us. Are you kidding me? So let's be logical here for a change. CA doesn't have enough water; you are fucked. CA doesn't have much legal labor for the fields; you are fucked. California is in debt, up to it's ears; you are fucked. My suggestion is CA shut the operation down to do what you can handle and quit trying to pretend to be an agricultural state. Grow some almonds OK? CA seems to be good at that. Forget the cool season vegetables because CA sucks at that. To be honest, most that crap is thrown away or processed into some dehydrated boxed dinners. Keep it.
Does that help at least a little? Famine is coming to you and not me. I know what I am doing with plants and I think you don't. I am not a feedlot animal husbandry guy but neither are you. I am not mad at you as much as I am dissapointed in how your handled you response to a simple question. You assumed a great deal. Stop assuming.
According to scientists, an area the size of France in the Sahara Desert can power the entire world , if solar farms put up. The sahara is the size of the entire USA lower 48 states.
So doesn't california have a desert to put up solar farms?
Yes it does and has and they suck.
Flocks of those whirly-birds can make you dizzy, and physically ill, as you drive along. Hundreds of fans spinning at various rates...it's hypnotizing, too.
"Renewable" energy is only as renewable as the equipment that is used to harvest it.
So, why don't you post how many square miles/kilometers that is and note your assumption is that EVERY square inch has solar panels.
Then, you need to inform us of the life span of a typical solar panel, as it has a "productivity curve" particularly as it ages and its materials break down/change, requiring replacement at some point.
Then, you need to advise us how we don't get sand on our solar panels (which probably have to have power to rotate/swivel and track the sun - all of them).
Then you need to invent a gadget/material/whatever that actually transports that energy all the way around the world (across oceans and mountain ranges) to the customers who are happy to have power 16 hours a day (if there isn't a sand storm) ... assuming 100% efficiency of the gadget/material/whatever you invented that is next in line behind perpetual motion.
Idiot.
Oh, wait, I got an idea! Why don't you move to the desert and post on ZH with your solar power laptop from your solar powered hut with your solar powered water faucet.
Regards,
Cooter
Pretty bad, last good wet season we had in SoCal was 4 years ago. This one started okay and just stopped. Pretty much by now it's over for another 5 months. What I mean is ZERO rain happens over the summer, that's typical. But January was almost zero, Feb a little, March basically nothing. You can poke fun at "liberal douches" all you want but this is serious. Just in case youi don't quite get it, almost all of your fruits and vegetables come from California and Arizona in the winter save what is imported from Latin America. Not to mention a huge diary industry. So when you pay more for your food, or can't get it, or the quality sucks and you're in New York State and it's January, remember us "liberal douches" out here.
That's not to say this state isn't overrun with lefties, but it's also home to great farmers.
Don't try to reason with these people. They know what they know, and that's all. And nothing, at the same time.
I do not reason with these people. I use damning judgment and ridicule.
They are too slow to get it. They may be able to deny the dismal reality. But when the consequences of the reality hits then their children's stomachs will go empty and will bloat as a result of malnourishment.
The hatred which they have been spewing upon the farmers of California is going to rise up and bite them on their balls.
They deserve it.
The Eastern Canucks farm greenhouses year-round - easy to guess why.
Greenhouses around Lake Ontario are multiplying at a vast clip.
Here in western New York we can feed ourselves, even with 'winter'.
We even have butternut trees and the like; almond trees though, not so much . . .
yah, until they discovered california, no one in the whole world ever had fruits or vegetables, not to mention a glass. of milk.
"... almost all of your fruits and vegetables come from California and Arizona in the winter ..."
Us Floridians can grow all of the winter vegetables that we won't get from California and Arizona. Fruits can come from Latin America.
Nobody will starve.
Step out and take a big breath of dry California air and relax.
I live in South Carolina, and I can assure you, most of fruits and veggies I see in local stores are NOT from California. Most of our stores get supplied from Mexico.
It is not "abnormally dry" here. It *is* normally dry here. It's a fucking desert.
California is NOT, repeat, NOT a desert. It has parts of the Mojave and Colorado desert in its southeastern zones. The Sierras are wet montane pine and conifer forests, which are abnormally dry. It has temperate rain forests in the northwest coastal areas by Oregon with redwoods and other lumber trees. The entire coastal zone from San Diego to San Francisco is called a "mediterranean" climate which consists of warm/hot dry summers and cool wet winters. That is an extremely productive climate for vegetables, fruits, nuts, dairy and WINE. It is similar to southern France, much of Italy, parts of Spain, a sliver in South Africa, a sliver in Australia and a section of Chile. That's it. That climate produces most of the world's wine. The coastal area is also much drier than average.
I think that's too optimistic. South of Santa Barbara, or at least south of Ventura, the coastal zone only has enough water for scrub brush. Even north to Marin county agriculture only works with dams and wells. And that's in the last wet century. This may also be true of wide stretches of Mediterranean areas, but it just means they are marginal in good times and impossible as California regresses to the millennial mean.
The temperatures are Mediterranean and reasonable. And local microclimates around small streams might do better with irrigation. But go just twenty miles inland and it's way hot and dry. And certainly not sufficient to support 20,000,000+ without importing water from hundreds of miles away, or getting into massive desalination.
Your are right about the water but that's the point of this story after all. Of course you can dry farm grapes, olives and certain other crops. You can winter raise others if the rains are average. It is NOT desert.
The Finger Lakes take offense at your wine regions . . .
No, you really can't.
I mean, even a desert has an occassional oasis but that does not make it farmland, until and unless you add water from outside. Grapes, not even close. A few canyons have streams that reduce to a trickle or less by mid-summer and support some natural trees with deep roots, but that's maybe one percent of the southern coastal region. With dams and irrigation you could expand it to five percent for drought-resistant crops or two percent for common garden vegetables.
Before civilization 95% of the water falling on the mountains and plains just ran off without growing anything, now we probably capture about half, the easy half, plus or minus a delta smelt and a couple of marginal salmon runs. We spend 90% of that on crops, and it has been good. But it's been all geo-engineering, 19th and 20th century style.
With nothing but natural rainfall and local wells, and a few local dams (too small to mean much), we couldn't have had half the agriculture or a quarter of the human population.
It is fucking hot. Right now it is 91o F in wonderful, fucking, hellhole Lakeside. (I am 20 miles from the Beach.)
Technically the windward side of the Laguna Mountain Range, the coastal foothills of San Diego County, is Chaparral Country....the same terrain and plant life that you find in high deserts of the Colorado Plateau.
Technically we are a desert because of lack of rain...historically, even in the "wet years".
There are other DESERT Beaches in the World. This certainly is not any Tropical Paradise.
It is fucking hot.
We had many 90oF days in the DEAD OF WINTER this year. Now we now have another God damned heat wave to contend with.
The climate is changing. Denial of that is ludicrous.
(That is not due to any man made causes. I do not give a fuck what God Science, and his High Priest Algore, says.)
It is fucking HOT.
Shit 90 degrees anin't nothing you would hate TX.....90 is a cool spring day
The secret to happiness in Texas (and I drove a VW bug in DFW for years when I worked my way through school - I know about hot) is a PORCH and SHADE TREES. Screened in porches and live oaks are the best.
If you buy a house/property without BOTH you will suffer. Buy one with both, and life is good. Most housing developments in the last few decades bulldoze the trees, reshape the land, and plunk down junk houses one after the other. THESE SUCK.
Get the older properties that are well maintained.
Regards,
Cooter
It all depends on your time frame. Walk back a few hundred/thousand years and see what happens.
Yeah it is a desert, always has been, always will be.
There is nothing "abnormal", there is only natural variation.
Everyone is so caught up in the NOW, they can't see the reality.
The weather is awesome. Ocean, mountains, farmland, California is blessed. Just too many fucking people. Not just in California but all over the world. We don't know how to control our species either in numbers or in an effective society. We are occupying a mere speck in time. It will all balance out, one way or another.
Droll, almost bilge quality, I mean would Californian and US Gov't be building the bullet train to nowhere if they was such a dire circumstance? They do love their illegals ;0)
I heard that the Zionists have a really long straw and are siphoning the water, eh Goebbels-Mohammedans of ZH.
You are boring.
Why don't you take your rusty saw and go play outside along the train tracks?
If the water bills reflected the actual cost of providing the water people would use less and there would be no problem. When a socialist state provides water to everyone at low or no cost then overuse and waste is rampant. Solution: Hand out a bottle of water and tell everyone that will be the last of it and let them find elsewhere to live. Just don't let them come to Texas please. Darn, too late they already are.
"If the water bills reflected the actual cost of providing the water people would use less and there would be no problem. When a socialist state provides water to everyone at low or no cost then overuse and waste is rampant. "
Substitute any .GOV provided service ( health care, education, security, etc.. ) and see if the validity of the statement changes in any significant way...
Tap water is free in Detroit. Some enterprising folks should be filling up tankers in the hood from garden hoses and then truck it out for a profit.
An interesting unintended consequence of expensive tiered tap water: having a large family suddenly becomes disproportionately expensive
Who gives a fuck, it's a fucking desert and no way is the left winged ass banging group gonna tell you that truth. Quit tryng to grow shit in the desert then when the rains end it won't parch your puss. Jeez what idiots.
Why not bring troops home and use those billions or trillions to build huge desalination and actually do something productive with all that printed debt.
Don't worry the private sector provides the solution to all problems.
Invest in water trucks now.
Weather patterns change there is not doubt, but that is no reason to tax everyone on the fucking planet for "carbon credits" just to create another mega slush fund for teh uber rich. If it's too dry, fucking move somewhere else. Doesn'e mean the earth is fallling into the sun slimy little lefty chicken little bastards. Fuck 'em
The astronauts don't mind drinking their recycled urine.
Thay had Tang, silly!
Tang is recycled urine? I'm not suprised.
The astronauts learned the hard way to leave the asparagus on Earth...
It could be worse. They could have been made to drink Starbucks.
Lets see, here in Europe they built the Chunnel., a masterpiece of engineering,. WE have hi speed rail everywhere and out autobahns are much better than crappy USA interstates. Germany is getting 30 percent of their power from renewables. and growing.
Here in NL we have the Delta project and update our infrastructure constantly
Going back to the USA is like leaving the Jetsons and returning to the Flintstones.
If you were one of the sociopaths running what is left of the USA, why would you invest a dime fixing a single internal problem in America when you and your pals have safe stocked undergound bunkers and WWIII is your plan to distract from economic collapse AND to destroy the evidence of your crimes?
Right, and your fucking power costs 4 times more per kwh than here.
Atl least they will have it when the plug gets pulled out.
I'm sitting here watching the sun set in Flintstone country. It's 37 miles to the nearest manifestation of the Jetsons-- a traffic light. I see a police car in my neighborhood about once every three or four months. Can't say when the last time was that I saw a Muslim immigrant around here. Two kestrels (small falcons) live in the soffit outside my kitchen window.
I raise my glass to you, Mr. Dutch Jetson, and wish you, and everyone else who covets such a lifestyle, well. The world is big enough for both of us. I'm glad you're there. You're glad I'm here. Works for everyone.
Normally, you are an asshole, but that was priceless!
I to this day have not figured out why euro-douchbags import a muslim welfare state. Really? France is up to their eyeballs in out of work, angry muslims due to immigration policy. It is crazy.
Regards,
Cooter
Hey! Why not import a few million Mexicans? That'll fix these water woes!!!
Harvest the water off their backs?
More like when they piss in your bushes
That's a hot looking map but if you drive through California now it is very green from all the rain and snow this year.
Water is for toilets. Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes
Salt water purification plants anyone?
"If they can't find any water, why don't they just drink coffee?"
-Hilary Antoinette.
The map is quite striking - and sobering, when you realize that California is over 800 miles in length, and this drought extends well into Oregon too. Didn't turn on the heater once this entire 'winter'. That has ~never~ happened in my lifetime. It is near 90 degrees today and was over 90 degrees in certian parts a week ago (S.F. Bay Area)
I believe it's all related to HAARP...
.Gov has been preventing rain and snow in Cali...
Probably to prevent Fukushima radiation from showing its full effects on the population...
I wonder if .Gov isn't looking to force migration out of Cali in order to hide how deadly the radiation actually is...
Just sayin'...
So who was running HAARP in the 1930s?
Getting anything "honest" or responsible out of the government here in California is unrealistic. They will continue to pass ineffective and harmful legislation. We can only hope that nature is more powerful than the legislators and governor. And that the bureaucrats don't make us intolerably miserable in the process.
Getting anything "honest" or responsible out of the government here in California is unrealistic. They will continue to pass ineffective and harmful legislation. We can only hope that nature is more powerful than the legislators and governor. And that the bureaucrats don't make us intolerably miserable in the process.
What the hell do you think is going to happen to your water supply when you let another 5 million people into your state to use your water and resources.
Not to mention the insane idea of selling your water away while shutting off water to save some stupid smelt while depriving farmers of water.
Great fucking job you commies!!!
Fuck California!!!
It's a dry heat and we've got a bumper crop of delta smelt.
This paragraph alone tells you these people are incompetent and don't care about anything but their power.
Fucking assholes!!!
Third, the state needs a task force of thought leaders that starts, right now, brainstorming to lay the groundwork for long-term water management strategies. Although several state task forces have been formed in response to the drought, none is focused on solving the long-term needs of a drought-prone, perennially water-stressed California.
Los Angeles needs to turn into the desert it was meant to be. Cut those fucks off and let them find a .realistic habitat for living.
Sam kinison had the best stand up about Ethiopians back in the day. I'd link to YouTube but they don't have it so here it goes.
"Don't send these people money or food. Send them U-hauls. Send them someone like me to go there and say, "you know it occured to us that there wouldn't be world hunger if you people would live WHERE THE FOOD IS!
YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT. GET YOUR KIDS, GET YOUR SHIT, WE'LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD IS.
WE HAVE DESERTS IN AMERICA WE JUST DONT LIVE IN THEM ASSHOOOOOOOLES!! (In the screaming kinison voice)
Sad thing is we do have peoe living Deserts and they are taking our water.
i wonder how the Cali Real estate market is doing.
A relative of mine is living the high life in Laguna Niguel. I send him every water related article I read. I've been gently suggesting to him maybe he should move closer to the grandkids in CO while he can still get something for his house. He's also 100% invested in the stock market. Scary.
Move the grand kids to California. Nobody needs even one more Californian, especially a particularly stupid one, moving to their state.
I think it's about to be left high and dry. There's going to be a drought of buyers. Agents will be thirsting for commissions. Think it safe to cancel my flood insurance?
4th: Deport the illegals that are drinking our water. I sure's the fuck don't want them moving by me.
Whtf cares if it's 99.999% or 98%. Does this add any useful information?
It seems to me the issue is water usage by Agriculture. If you have a system where all your veggies are coming from a single state, and all of it is using irrigation..
This primarily means higher vegetable prices once more wells run dry. Aka inflation.
"Food grows where water flows" The bromide that has driven CA into an unsustainable level of ag development
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It's like even the weather knows we're currently reliving the 1930s.
The article states, "In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis." The problem can never be solved with that type of thinking! It's a drought! What possible use could you have for a paddle during a drought?
hey it's California, brain cells are not part of the flora and fauna.
My Gawd, Dry already?
I need to get a Truck of Ripple out there, stat!!
One can draw a lot of parallels here...
The government got CA into the mess, so I'm confident they can fix it too.
Much of California's problems comes from Sacramento. Government meddling (often to "protect" one species or some other pie-in=the-sky rationale) have led them to this mess.
Tool said it best: "Learn to swim"
Immediately if not sooner, water needs to be shut off to non-essential uses like watering golf courses and lawns. Water-intensive industry like car washes need to be limited to using their own recycled water. Other businesses that use lots of water should be restricted. And for God's sake stop building houses! Another idea is to get residents to fill a used 1/2 gallon milk jug with water, then put it in the toilet tank. Saves a 1/2 gallon every flush!
Write Obama a letter. He will get right on that golf course thing.
Regards,
Cooter
Westcoastliberal, restricting the water supply to the toilet needs a specially designed high pressure water supply toilet. If you cut half a gallon from every flush, that usually means as many as three flushes are then needed to do the job that one flush used to do. It's actually chronically wasteful of water.
Then if the drainage system (sewer system) is designed for lots of low pressure water going through it, there isn't enough water flow to keep them running properly and they block up causing a huge amount of problems.
There are always lots of unintended consequences for poorly thought through actions. The expression "The cure is worse than the disease" didn't just appear out of the blue.
Unsurprisingly, such realities are always lost on 'liberals'.
Go long Detroit real estate or what??
No wonder they keep spraying for cockroaches! They gonna be hungry!
Interesting how it's centered in LA and San Fran.
Manufactured Malthusian Check's / Crisis's via man made Anthropomorphic Weather Modification has been active & progressing since the early 60's. Whenever the massive public awakening happens would be good so that people could figure how how they are being controlled by Weather patterns. The sooner the better.
The STOOPID it burns still...
Time will fix this, severe drought in TX just a few years ago
yah and the Sahara use to be wet, had multiple lakes and everything. I'm sure time will change that but, geological time and human time is incompatible.
TX still has a serve drought....stop lying to these people in cali giving them false hope. A "hot" 90 day in cali a a cool spring day here. Trust me Texas is hot as shit and still in a major drought
accidental double post, how to delete??
no way to actually delete them, just do what you did. erase it and type "double". we all know how it happens and what it means.
There was almost no snow this year in Tahoe. Usually this time of year the houses still have snow up to their roofs. This year several ski resorts closed early or did not open. I skied Utah, Park City , Brighton ,etc. I lucked out with 12 inches of snow but they were hurting. CA people were very depressed. More wildfires comeing soon. More acres of crops not planted. Meanwhile the high pressure system that hurt them must have sent it to us on the East Coast. I did like my snowshoeing in the Catskills which was excellent but hated all that shoveling at multiple houses I have to do. If it does not fall somewhere, it will fall somewhere else. Meanwhile get ready for pricer vegetables as CA get hammered. Lake Meade? :-(
This will hit well before California runs out of water --- so why fret about California's tempest in a tea pot
THE PERFECT STORM (see p. 59 onwards)
The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
Why not sending out airplanes drop dry ice from sky to make rain? I don't understand.
Look at the bright side.
Etching California, Fukushima radiation far from the rest of the country.
Nature is being good for the US.
hehe.
At least I can distill water from my local golf course, or neighbors jacuzzi.
Don't give me a fucking break! Bitchez/
Bullish for the cannabis market!
california, you are fucked blue, when have you ever seen .gov, any politician, or any .gov worker employee these principals?
"be an honest, transparent and forward-looking process"
ain't happnin, yall are so stupid out there you deserve to die of thirst.
When CA had water (a surplus), their government agencies just let their reservoir water drain out to the ocean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRATiiriPW4