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Another Reason To Move Away From California: "Conditions Are Like A Third-World Country"
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
As if anyone actually needed another reason to move out of the crazy state of California, now it is being reported that conditions in some areas of the state “are like a third-world country” due to the multi-year megadrought that has hit the state. In one California county alone, more than 1,000 wells have gone dry as the groundwater has disappeared. The state is turning back into a desert, and an increasing number of homes no longer have any water coming out of their taps or showerheads.
So if you weren’t scared away by the wildfires, mudslides, high taxes, crime, gang violence, traffic, insane political correctness, the nightmarish business environment or the constant threat of “the big one” reducing your home to a pile of rubble, perhaps the fact that much of the state could soon be facing Dust Bowl conditions may finally convince you to pack up and leave. And if you do decide to go, you won’t be alone. Millions of Californians have fled the state in recent years, and this water crisis could soon spark the greatest migration out of the state that we have ever seen.
Back in 1972, Albert Hammond released a song entitled “It Never Rains In Southern California“, and back then that was considered to be a good thing.
But today, years of very little rain are really starting to take a toll. In fact, one government official says that conditions in Tulare Country “are like a third-world country”…
Near California’s Success Lake, more than 1,000 water wells have failed. Farmers are spending $750,000 to drill 1,800 feet down to keep fields from going fallow. Makeshift showers have sprouted near the church parking lot.
“The conditions are like a third-world country,” said Andrew Lockman, a manager at the Office of Emergency Services in Tulare County, in the heart of the state’s agricultural Central Valley about 175 miles (282 kilometers) north of Los Angeles.
As California enters the fourth year of a record drought, its residents and $43 billion agriculture industry have drawn groundwater so low that it’s beyond the reach of existing wells. That’s left thousands with dry taps and pushed farmers to dig deeper as Governor Jerry Brown, a 77-year-old Democrat, orders the first mandatory water rationing in state history.
The mandatory water restrictions that Governor Brown is imposing are going to be very painful for a lot of people. We have just learned that some California communities will be required to cut their water usage by up to 36 percent…
Californians are going to have to start preparing for a dry summer as the dehydrated state prepares for a water crackdown.
In a somewhat controversial move, California water officials drafted a set of mandatory conservation regulations outlining varying degrees to which communities will be required to cut back on water use, ranging from 8 to 36 percent, depending on their history of water consumption.
The regulations — slated for approval in early May — are part of California’s first-ever attempt at mandatory rationing. Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order requiring a 25 percent reduction in urban water use, a historic step in a series of measures aimed at conservation ahead of the state’s fourth consecutive year of drought.
And of course it isn’t just the state of California that is dealing with drought.
All over the southwest United States, we are seeing conditions that we have not witnessed since the days of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
In fact, the water level in Lake Mead is now the lowest that it has been since those days, and it is expected to drop even lower in the months ahead…
One of the most stunning places to see its impact is at the nation’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, near Las Vegas. At about 40 percent of capacity, it’s the lowest it’s been since it was built in the 1930s.
“Just to see the rings around it, it’s just … kind of scary, you know,” says Darlene Paige, a visitor from New York. She’s standing at a vista point above the Hoover Dam on the Arizona side of Lake Mead.
That “ring” is the infamous bathtub ring around the rim of the reservoir. The levels have dropped 140 feet over the past 15 years, exposing a white stain on the gravelly brown mountains above the water. The level is forecast to fall an additional 10 feet by this summer.
According to the Government Accountability Office, it is being projected that a total of 40 U.S. states will be dealing with a shortage of water by the end of the next decade.
It has been said that “water is the new oil”, and this is just the beginning. The truth is that as bad as things are here, we are actually in far better shape than almost everyone else in the world to deal with the emerging global water crisis. All over the planet supplies of fresh water are disappearing, and the availability of water is going to increasingly become a major geopolitical issue in the years to come.
And even now, the U.S. government is taking all of this very seriously. In fact, the EPA is already trying to train our kids to take showers instead of baths…
Parents across America who struggle to keep their young rambunctious kids clean now have a new obstacle: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
As part of its effort to help save the planet from the dangers of taking too many baths, the EPA’s WaterSense program is trying to convince kids they should avoid bathtubs in favor of showers, which it says is a far more efficient use of water.
“To save even more water, keep your shower under five minutes long—try timing yourself with a clock next time you hop in!” the “WaterSense for Kids” website says.
For most of our lives, most of us have been able to take water for granted.
But now things are changing, and we are going to have to adjust to these new realities.
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Everything is fine in Brentwood.
Draining precious Calfifornia waters to preserve the Delta Smelt fish:
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/leaked-environmentalists-caused-ca...
"the state 'are like a third-world country' due to the multi-year megadrought..."
Please... CA has been like a third world country ever since leftists got a stranglehold on the state. They have been driving producers out for a long time now in favor of thrid world welfare kings/queens. No water is just the topping. They'll drastically raise taxes and business/people strangling regulations becasue of this, going full third world in the near future.
For the children...
"Water is the new oil."
Probably because the aquifers are polluted with fracking wastewater.
< Hillary Clinton
< Moonbeam Brown
"The famous Sacred Cenote (a natural well) located at Chichen-Itza was found to contain numerous skeletons of men, women and children who were sacrificial victims. Bishop de Landa, in the sixteenth century reported: "Into this well they have the custom of throwing Men alive as a sacrifice to the gods in times of drought, and they believed they did not die though they never saw them."
What have we got to loose?...
It's called terraforming and it is having the desired effect on climate in the US... Next question...
True. Let's try this again, 'cause last time it got deleted/ censored. GeoEngineered Drought. Target California.
Something more recent.
Dying Trees
DoD Declassified, scrubbed Document. Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
They will not look for water sources from these acquifers as that would address the problem.
Can't let a good crisis go to waste.
http://www.primarywaterinstitute.org/evidence.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/huge-underground-reservoir-holds-three-times-much-water-earths-oceans/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131208085304.htm
Millions of Californians have fled the state in recent years ...
To be exact, millions of hard working middle class Californians have left the state ... to be replaced with welfare recipients.
"to be replaced with welfare recipients."
BRILLIANT!!!
Why kick the 99%, when they kick each other everytime the 1% creates another war/terror/weather/food/healthcare/water/energy FALSE FLAG ???
Did you know that the world uses:
Did you know that:
Let's all keep kicking the bloody bag of bones that was once a puppy...and each other...for the whole fucking, whopping 8 percent use of the 54% of "accessable" (not in ice or snow), out of the 35 million cubic kilometers of water being used...
Frack on, assholes!
"accessible" water is vastly understated.
Huge aquifers 'found' under Africa (they were there all along and all they did was put together various water resource studies):
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-17775211
And look at the massive food producing productivity with a fraction of the water:
http://craftsmanship.net/drought-fighters/
So the water needed for irrigation is greatly overstated.
Manufactured crisis...
Read my lips:
AGENDA 21...
UN crisis....
read my lips:
COP 21...
A lot of the ones who left CA are AH's too. They get to other states and say "well back in California we did it this way or we had this..." ***king people destroy states and mov elsewhere and want to make - souther states, mountain states or midwestern states just like the place they helped destroy.
They are like ***king locust. Keep watching TV and Hollywood because your viewership keeps these evil people in control.
I voted for Jerry (here, not at the booth). This won't be an issue after the Great Earthquake of '15 culls the herd a bit. There'll be plenty of water per capita then. Of course the delivery system will be shot to hell but why worry?
"throwing Men alive as a sacrifice to the gods in times of drought,"
History never exactly repeats, only rhymes.
OK, throw politicians and Banksters into the abyss.
I'll call that and raise you one global warming and Mooch Obama's duck
So how about instead of spending trillions on wars in the middle east it we spend some on aqueducts from the northwest to to the southwest. Jobs, water and food seems like a good investment..
Because this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/lockheed-ceo-hews...
Sorry, makes too much sense. There would probably be people complaining that the aqueduct would ruin the environment of some random endagered rat or insect. Also, given how inneficient our government is, it probably would cost like $2 trillion.
The same people that would complain have no problem promoting a "High Speed Railroad", with multiple stops in various shitholes, that will soon be trillions in cost over-runs.
The way to hedge as a Fracker, is to buy up water rights.
What you don't make on fracking, you make on water.
This seems like a very devious and ruthless form of enterprise, but I'd put nothing past some sociopaths.
" I drink your milkshake "
The problem with securing all of the low info voters is sooner or later you win every election but then they turn around and eat you when they figure out that you ran off all of the milk cows.
Speaking of milk cows, I see all these adds about dairy from Cali in various forms of cheese, milk, etc.
At the rate the big dairies are leaving it won't be long until there are few if any left there. They are relocating to areas like the tri state area of IA,SD and MN where I live. Having made a small fortune selling out to developers, they relocate to the midwest, or other states like ID that are much more ag friendly. It's been a huge boon to the local contractors, and the many other smaller ancillary owners.
I'm not saying it's all a good thing, but when you see these guys with four or more dairies out in Cali, relocating from a warm state to IA where it gets hotter and colder than hell at times, and listen to the stories they tell you about all the bullshit regs they have to put up with, who can blame them?
California's civilizational apogee was in the early seventies, and things have been going pretty steadily downhill ever since they cancelled CHiPs.
Blame it on Ponch! lol
That was when the Vietnam war ended and the DoD money flowing to CA started to decline. By that time there was enough to fuel their first real estate bubble....
They are already a third word country they just have not come to face that reality just yet
L.A. has more Spanish speakers than every other city in our hemisphere except Mexico City.
L.A metro area is a 3rd world country unless you live within a few blocks of the beach or in the hills.
SH
Nah, it happened when they canceled the original Star Trek series. ;-)
I left because of the "left"... never looked back.
Or could the 'third world' conditions be due in part to the massive numbers of third worlders who now reside there?
No, can't be that. That would be racist and xenophobic. The drought is solely responsible for everything that is wrong with Cali (where I matriculated in HS).
Couldn't be immigrants, public unions, insane progressives, control freak statists, and general overpopulation in SoCal, could it?
Nah. We need to vote out drought. HILLARY 2016 WILL FIX EVERYTHING when she allies with MOONBEAM!
FUCK YEAH!
No depression is complete without a good Dust Bowl incident. So, we're just about right on schedule.
No tienen agua pero muchos cervezas.
Or world war. We're just about right on schedule.
Indeed.
Wait...it gets even better. The idiocy of our government knows no bounds...
"According the Dennis Wyatt at the Manteca Bulletin, the Bureau of Reclamation has ordered South San Joaquin Irrigation District and Oakdale Irrigation District to release 15,000 acre-feet of water (4.8 billion gallons) this week, enough water to supply the needs of 174,301 Californians for an entire year, in order to help 6 fish swim to the Delta."
These are Steel Head trout.
http://www.westsideconnect.com/opinion/guest_columns/water-alliance-government-ordering-billion-gallons-of-water-for-six/article_35c2d376-df16-11e4-a347-3326ba293ded.html
I think the 'dfg' in the link below stands for "Dumb Fuckin' Government".
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fish/Resources/SteelHead/
Brawndo pipeline for the motherucking win.
Moonbeam craves high speed trains. Its got pork and federal subsidies Sacremento needs.
Who is to say the smelt fish dont make better use of it? Honestly, I am on the side of the smelt fish rather than Justin Bielblers swimming pool.
Importing another 2 million illegals will fix the problem for sure. Any red state should bar their doors for anyone from California lest they allow their states to be infected with the Cali liberal cancer that has so completely and effectively devastated that state.
Other states should just tax em for the benefits they supported.
"oh, you wanted basic income for everyone, 100k police/teacher pensions, gas cars to be illegal, life long unemployment, disability for anxiety, etc. sounds good. Thatll be 150% income tax if you want to move here."
jeb bush wiil fix things.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Tylers, would you PLEASE get rid of this fucking spammer???????
Thank you.
Please include all of his/her/its' aliases that appear dailey throughout ZH. I always downvote their posts. So, do us
newcomerss and veterans a favor and purge this scourge.
Then you must be paying about $3k a month to the IRS. For that I'm sure some overweight useless government worker thanks you.
why is it always $7K ?
$250 per night X 30 nights/month = $7k+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEQC-jYMjf8
mmmm yea, the dust bowl happened before electromatic beams, crazy weather is not a new feature of planet Retard
LOL no, Tesla
I was going to blame Tesla in my post but my wife hid my tinfoil beanie.
..you ain't got no wife booboo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOrPnVcIHx0
You have to admit the timing is very suspect. On the verge of flicking the on switch to the new world order, the number 1 food producing state collapses?
We can modify the weather with electromagnetic beams, but humans can't be responsible for global warming. This is silly.
I can see minor changes in precipitaction may be possible through cloud seeding, or increasing dust in the upper atmosphere, but any device like you are talking about would have energy requirements that make nukes look like firecrackers. Consider that 1200W falls on every meter subtropic and tropic area on Earth, to apply 1% more energy would require 12W per Sq Meter or 12,000,000W per Sq Kilometer. Just to apply 1% more energy to Califonia would require 5,500,000,000,000W. To have any affect it would need to be applied for extended periods of time. I just don't see it.
Also, for the record, I don't know one person who has left CA because of the drought, I know 100 people who have left because of the cost of living.
#41
Please remain seated.
The building is on fire but you will reamain safe.
So true Row,
Actually this is just Another Reason not to read this sensationlist bullshit blog. But then, they got me with the lead in. Zero Hedge would be a lot better off with a lot more "less is more" . Try quality vs quanity. And speaking of, the National Lampoon issue of a millon years ago with Linda Ronstad getting into bed with Jerry, and as she lifts the covers says "Sometimes Jerry less is not more" , as opposed to what the gov had proclaimed only a few months prior.
The state could do way worse than Brown. Not giving a fuck about Dem/Rep. , you have to believe after all these decades of effort the guy actually cares about doing a good job. Of course he might be a bit corrupt, and who knows what else, but who isn't, and all in all he's as good as anyone else you're going to find. Would you want to be Gov. inheriting not only a state in deep in monetary red, but water red?
You're talking out of your ass Row. It doesn't take that much energy to bend the ionosphere, which was the original intention of HAARP. Lift the ionosphere over a large continental space to foil a ICBM attack by causing the incomming to go astray, or ideally burn up due to unexpected, early contact with dense atmosphere on reentry.
Tesla pioneered free energy, but burned his notes, saying man was not ready for it when he saw the potential and all the implications.
HAARP propigates energy in waves that bounce off the ionosphere and the earth's surface, a well known phenomena of radio waves that has been used to broadcast over the horizon for decades. Think of a ball bouncing off of the top and bottom as it travels down a tunnel. Waves of different frequencies can be used so that they will collide at the chosen geographic location, causing an effect similar to what goes on in your microwave. Add metalic nano-partcles like aluminum via arial spraying and the effect is amplified, like adding a beer can amplifies the effect inside your microwave.
Finally, it is not Science Fiction. It is easy to find a DoD study that contradicts what you are saying. Are you going to make me find another one?
Final finally, they don't need to heat the massive area shown in the drought map. They only need to create a stationary, artificial high pressure ridge over the Eastern Pacific to block, more like divert the cooling, moisture laden Jet Stream from making landfall. Voila, endless drought and high temperatures until the GeoEngineers decide otherwise. The diverted Jet Stream warms Alaska and as it tries to revert to mean, it drags Artic air south, producing what we now call "The Polar Vortex", which puts the MidWest and East into deep freeze. All the pieces fit. Open your eyes. GeoEngineering is real.
Hello downvoting person. Care to share your counter argument or objection? Or is this just another one of those cases where your paycheck is involved?
fantastic statements with no backup and links to vague websites = downvote.
I've posted dozens and dozens of links. Here's a link to my earlier comment to this article with 3 links, one to a DoD declassified, scrubbed paper that describes how its done, ie. directed electrical energy and sprayed chemicals. The othe two are Dane Wigington youtube talks. If you are in a hurry, go to the 2nd video and skip to 9:57 where he starts to present NOAA heat maps which are clearly not natural patterns, clear, stunning evidence of GeoEngineering.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-20/another-reason-move-away-califo...
I guess I thought you would have seen it already if you got to this point.
The true believers always use ad homs or anonymous downvotes.
I agree that the weather is being modified. I see evidence of it here daily that most people refuse to acknowledge because "they would never do that" or "it would cost too much" (as if our government doesn't print money with the aid of the Steingoldmanberg tribe) to do whatever it or its controllers want.
Until the planes start writing stuff in the sky like "YES WE ARE FUCKING YOU OVER" or "OWNING THE WEATHER BITCHEZ" the true believers will go on blundering about, glued to their phones and TVS and ignoring any bit of reality that conflicst with their programming, muttering things like "the government would never lie to us like that".
Word to your mutha: YES THEY CAN. YES THEY HAVE. AND YES THEY WILL.
Thanks R&R. If you take a look at the DoD paper that I posted a link to up thread, the one about Owning the Weather, you will see that one of the Pro points the authors make in favor of pursuing GeoEngineering is that it is not expensive. Of course I take your point, that once you own the printing press, nothing is expensive.
Operation Popeye, cloud seeding with iodine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xJNWSjS_q4
Pelosi's vineyard is looking fine...
http://toprightnewscom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pelosi-...
Is the photo recent?
Do not harm the oil and wine. An age old principle.
Yes it is. Book of Revelation (The Apocolyspe of John)
Rev.6 - 6[6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
So yeah, do screw with thatl.
Stay put, this is just alarmism and click porn.
Those of us who wish to stay hope it works. Is there a Spanish language editions by chance?
Those who are alarmed enough should consider moving to Detroit for safety.
Robocop abides:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/congo-robot-traffic-cops/
I'm moving to Oklahoma and going to write my first Novel "The Wrath of Grapes" !!!
And us Okies will give you the same warm welcome we received from you guys 60 years ago. Bring yer tent and don't be pickin any pea pods less than eight inches. :7)
I am waiting for the signs at the border states that say "Thar aint no jobs here, keep goin"
When do they start puttin up those signs along the Mexican border.
Those signs must be already in place, right next to 'Free food, housing, disability, phone, and healthcare.' Hence the brown wave.
That was so fucking hilarious I had to log in just to up vote you.
Dude, you stole that from my post last week!
Most of my good stuff is stolen !!!
Old WWII ditty my daddie taught me:
"Let' go, Oakies and Arkies,
We can take Japan,
We took California,
And never lost a man."
So all you fucks that want to leave, leave.
Bye bye.
Back in the mid-1970's, when the 'oil crisis' was all the rage, I was running a watershed renewal project, sort of state of the art at the time, and wrote a working paper that posited that the real California crisis was water, not oil. So I was ahead of my time, but that paper, and a bunch of other stuff I was doing, got me an evening with the Governor, the first time around. I could drop more names of people at that dinner (4 of us) but I won't. I was amazed at the awareness of the state of California water at that time - forty fucking years ago - the drawdown of Central Valley aquifers, the amount of acerage already given up to too salty land, etc.
This is not a new problem. I disagree with Brown giving the 'farmers' a pass on the first cut of water rationing - he is in his second term and need not fear agri-biziness, and they need to change some irrigation practices too (and actually are), but a lot more can be done. Cal ag biz uses 80% of CA water - please remember that. The cities are actually pretty good about pitching in (Palm Springs and environs and exception - Obummer goes to golf there, gotta keep them greens green in the fucking middle of the desert...); but the city folks can get that the farmers got to do a little bit more also.
But we will survive just fine; earthquakes, drought, taxes, whatever the fuck. Don't like it, leave motherfuckers. Forty years on this homestead, got it whipped into shape pretty well. Ain't going any fucking where. I'm home.
"Cal ag biz uses 80% of CA water"
Agriculture consumes about 40 percent of the state's water, or 80 percent of water available for human use.
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201504151000
During the drought, farms have not been getting the allocations they've requested. The federal project is making no deliveries to farmers with water rights established after 1914, a move they also took last year. And the state is only planning to deliver 20 percent of requested water. Overall water deliveries last year were down 32.5 percent, according to the Farm Bureau.
Billions of gallons of water have been diverted from farmlands, according to a report by the Washington D.C.-based Heritage Foundation, with the American Farm Bureau estimating that between 400,000 acres and 500,000 acres of crops will be lost.
Meanwhile roughly 21 million-acre feet of water is flushed into the ocean annually.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/16/man-made-disaster-critics-say-calif...
Cal is always running out of water , the day no water comes out of the pipes in Santa Monica or Beverly Hills then I will belive it , untill then WHATEVER
The access to and use of water is moving from public hands into private hands.
A must-see documentary ("FLOW: For the Love of Water") deals with the dwindling global supply of drinking water, and its transfer from the public ownership to private ownership.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/flow-for-love-of-water/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow:_For_Love_of_Water
water rustling dead ahead....
im over california and the bay area in general...
very sad to say that.
Sure, Cali is fucked and its the progressive bullshit policy that caused it, but now theyre flooding to the pacific northwest, Colorado, even Texas, bringing their agenda along with them. The Northeast and mid atlantic are full of bankers, lawyers, and govt leaches. Atlanta is just a terrible place.
Not sure where the author thinks people should go. Most of us cant run to a farm in the middle of nowhere and risk our family/destroy our career.
Charlotte? Salt Lake City? Im seriously considering cities in the midwest - thats how far we've fallen.
"...but now theyre flooding to the pacific northwest, Colorado, even Texas, bringing their agenda along with them."
I just don't buy this argument that it's the progressives flocking to other parts of the country for a better way of life. They fucking love California, can't you tell? It's been made in their own likeness. Why would they leave?
It's freedom loving American conservatives that are getting out.
In addition, one doesn't up and move to an entirely new city/state and be instantly connected and involved in politics. It takes years to become established in a new community to the point where one can influence others and actually affect the outcome of an election/vote.
'One' doesnt do anything. The problem is that a systemic weakening of the state they developed in their own likeness creates a lot more than one person leaving. The last census found a net emmigration of a quarter million workers from Cali, and I only see it getting worse.
Honestly though, they arent alone. People support the same things across the nation, theyve just been able to push it through faster in California. Frankly I dont care if the progressives in any state grew up there or immigrated, I just dont want to deal with any more of their bullshit than I have to.
Lots of moderates too.
" Most of us cant run to a farm in the middle of nowhere and risk our family/destroy our career."
Yes we can. Nowadays what's the point of a career? To maximize earnings? So you can maximize your'voluntary contributions' to the machine that is enslaving us all?
Don't worry about stuff not broadcast on TV because it simply isn't true. The only truth emanates from televisions all else is loonytune conspiracy theory and must be ridiculed and denied. /s
Besides, no matter what job you do if it's not government work, they're coming for your career, just like they came for my last 3 (manufacturing, high end retail, and IT).
My fourth career is subsistence. and fuck the govenrment theives and their voluntary contributions. I volunteer to make the bare minimum needed to subsist and I reject consumerism, media, and basically everything that is AMERICA FUCK YEAH! And people who still buy into that paradigm
I upvoted you because 10 years ago I was where you are at least in terms of that line I quoteed from your post.
The only thing I completely disagree with is that "some communities will need to cut their water usage 36%"
At some point very soon...."some communities" will need to cut their water usage by 90%.....and then, the worst case scenario is that if this drought extends into next year....some communities might have to reduce their usage by 100% because they will cease to exist.
oh well, don't worry, the aqueduct will keep pumping water into LA at the expense of everything in the San Joaquin Valley.
This is where the analogous zombie horde will come from.
Reminds me of the Book: Grapes of Wrath?
Ended with the guy slitting his wrists to keep the moss in his oasis wet and live - if I remember back 60 years well.
Lessons.
Ho hum
I thought everyone earnt millions in some sort of retard valley
Silicone Valley. I think because there are a lot of store bought titties.
I would feel badly for the folks going through this, but they are Commiefornians. So I'll bid them eat Fukushima sushi with a bowl of Chinese coal dust instead.
after 6 years I just got my condo under contract in Denver...now its probably going to double in price with all the Californians moving here....
Water, weed, snow skiing. Liberal Paradise. Does Denver have its version of Muscle Beach?
Yes..Cherry Creek and Chatfiel resevoirs......and we have a bunch of Buddist temples too....Hari Krishnas...all the good New Age crap
Spent the late summer through mid-fall 'camping' at Cherry Creek in 1967. No housing available, particularly for what an AF Tech Sargeant made back then...dad would go off to work and we'd kind of hang out with mom. Wasn't too bad until winter started up for real. Paper sleeping bags didn't cut it, but at seven it was a big adventure. Mostly remember younger sisters with ice in their hair as we sat around a kerosene heater in the morning. Eventually got a place but we, as siblings, have definite memories of that time.
Colorado determined that I don't like snow. A little is ok, but none of that serious four to six feet shit. I like where I am, we get enough snow to take a picture and it sensibly goes away.
Unfortunately for you guys, it all sensibly went away and hasn't come back.
lol....yep...Californian's who can't sell their home, will move to Denver, where they don't have a job....and they'll double the price of Colorado. Wait, that doesn't make any sense.
Sure it does. All the assholes from the Northeast and the Caribbean moved to Florida and turned it into a 3rd world hell hole.
Florida isn't really a hellhole. It's just a giant swamp with a few cities with nice beaches in between. Nice place to visit. Only a hellhole if you have to live there.
you've got a point there....but most of them didn't have to sell their original home in a fire sale (no pun intended).
It may actually be an opportunity to pick up some CA real estate if you're a betting contrarian...of course, people will knife catching all the way down. Particularly the Chinese who seem to have an insatiable appetite for California real estate.
Can't wait to see the faces of them Texans when Moonbeam and Starlight move on in. It should be a regular ole hoot-nanny
Here's to hoping for a former-CA-resident-but-still-very-much-PETA protest of chicken fried steak restaurants across Tejas.
That migration is already under way... witness Austin...
Party on Wayne......
Like an angry pus filled boil....
Beat me to it.
No kidding. Used to be a frequent visitor. Austin was a cool town in the 90s. Barton Creek greenbelt, 6th street, Chuy's, Salt Lick and many other fine establishments -- and you could actually drive around easily back then.
With each visit (last being in 2012) the Californication becomes more obvious and I know what that looks like having lived in the land of fruits and nuts for a number of years.
The took the fun right out of Austin with all their new laws, regulations, and development. The traffic there is Cali-like and makes getting around a real chore. They closed the greenbelt to mountain bikes (or so I was told) because of some animal habitat bullshit -- again, think Californian progressivism.
No thanks. I like liberty and out in the sticks, there can be more liberty than in the blue hives. No one can deny that. My shooting range is my back yard. My dirt bike/mountainbike track is my back yard. I mow when I feel like it and there's no HOA to tell me I can't grow vegetables, keep chickens, or use a woodstove.
Liberty Uber Alles!
Why do you think they are about to pass CHL open carry in Texas?
We're expecting the influx of scumbags ...
Border wall, around California from stem to stern, would help alleviate the problem. man the wall with .50 caliber machine guns and 20 MM miniguns at key road crossings, barb wire, drones, and land mines.
Keep the crazy in California because we don't want it.
It's The American Curse >>> http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-3z
What's that fly doing in my water glasss?
The backstroke!
Maybe California resembles a third world country because more than a quarter of its residents are foreign-born? Add children of foreign-born parents and you are well over a third of residents.
Somehow I doubt that a mere drought is going to make any dent in the flood of incoming residents. It might mean that southern California residents might not be able to fill their swimming pools. And lots of pool cleaners might be unemployed. Boo hoo hoo!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/upshot/mapping-migration-in-the-united...
Aaah, if only there were more white superior humans similar to the crooks, convicts, losers and genetically disadvantaged that were shipped from Europe to America 200 years ago, the world would be so much of a better place, right?
Wow! 1/3 world! Makes sense to me!
Oh they will come to Colorado...pot is legal now....
Fortunately, Seattle is closer, already Communist, deep in the grip of the 4/20 crowd and has a shoreline. At least I hope that's what they're thinking.
The problem with Socialist California is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples' water.
Hey Moon-beam. maybe .. just maybe ... you should have been thinking of desalinisation plants instead of high speed rail?
The libtards have declared desal to be BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. Too much electricity/fossil fuel use. Guess they need to build a bigger wind farm to power that plant. . .
Perhaps he was planning to ship the water by rail so it could get there real fast?
The 40% of Californians who didn't vote for Moonbeam heartily tell you to fuck off. And let it be known that the Mexican invasion happened while GWB refused to protect the border. The Regan '86 Amnesty didn't help either /FACTS
Meanwhile, our beloved Governor Jerry Brown allows the frackers to suck up our water and inject contaminated water into our aquifers
California without water is still better than 95% of the U.S.
If you're into dried fruits and salty nuts.
Yep, mothers don't just throw their kids off bridges, they throw the whole carraige.
Keep dreamin' there, shit-for-brains.
Love, a Texan.
NEWS FLASH PEOPLE:
Much of the US is ALREADY a Third-World Country!!!
Travel around the ghettos of DC, Baltimore, New Jersey, etc! Then go spend some time traveling throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Australia, Singapore, etc.
WE ARE ALREADY A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! We have Third-World PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Third-World HEALTHCARE, Third-World INFRASTRUCTURE, and a corrupt Third-World GOVERNMENT.
Nothing new here!
Have you been to Southern Florida around Miami?
It's a 3rd world paradise.
Dangling Chads
We've been a third world country for DECADES. I was raised in Eurpoe and coming back to the US was disappointing - with few exceptions: dirty, the food was horrible, school BORING, ugly clothes, shoddy construction and architecture. And it's been downhill since.
The really fucking crazy laughable part is that we spend more per capita on schools than any nation on earth as well as more per capita for health care than any nation on earth. So why do we get so little from it?
Complete corporate capture of the unchecked military-industrial-security-nanny state. We have a larger and more controlling government than the Soviet Union ever did. And the corporate masters who call the shots are happy this way. The bigger the US government the more power corporate interests have over the world.
No kidding man, check out south Dallas.... Looks just like Detroit
pretty sure by the comments that only 'blue' states are 3rd world countries, and maybe some 'red' states that the 'commies' infiltrated. This coming from 'awake' people.
California gave the US the 9th Circuit Court. Karma gave California a drought.
Number nein, number nein, number nein...
Maybe they should all walk in to the ocean for the planet (uselss eaters) and because they're idiots (no riots/protests to stop geo-engineering responsible for the broken record drought). Instead I'm sure it's just a matter of time until the rich ones are walking around in Dune suits and drinking their clean piss while everyone else drinks their significant others piss piss.
Watch the one size fits all solutions.
Federal guidelines on usage... Even if you happen to live where you get a lot of rain per year and you have no problem... The new Fed mandates will give you one.
I see propaganda works even on ZH crowd. It is true that California has been taken over by Wall Street hacks already at least two decades ago including current governor and his wife but true issue here is another attempt to fleecing people by Hedge Funds creating hysteria of water crisis as something new or particularly acute. It is not. It is the same story, water politics in California as usual.
The dramatic announcement of mandatory 25% cut in residential usage, which is 12% of total usage, is not mandatory but rather green light to utility to raise (again) basic water rates. Rich from Palo Alto or Bell Air will be able to afford it. Again it is another political stunt (25% cut) by governor in his all familiar clown routine which would reduce total usage only 4-5% while water deficit officially is as high as 40% while frackers, bottled water, wine industry as well as water parks etc., using quarter of total water available remains untouched. Ratepayers are being robed, small business and small farms are being destroyed and this is what it’s all about.
Much more honest and balanced take on current situation in California, that distinguishes between draught and water crisis I found at.
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/california-waterworld-of...
Anyone on planet Earth living outside of Cali has NO interest in Cali water politics. The reason the world is paying attention is because of this:
California just had its worst drought in over 1200 years - The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/.../2014/.../california-just-had-its-worst-drought-in- over-1200-years 8 Dec 2014 ... In terms of cumulative severity, it is the worst drought on record (-14.55 ... the2013/2014 California drought and human-caused climate change. -----------------------------
it IS different this time, esp @ 40,000,000 people in Cali and 400ppm CO2 globally. It's headed for a MAJOR MALFUNCTION. It is new, it is getting accute-erer. Note the above was written before the data on the 2014-15 snowpack arrived. I haven't read it but at the beginning of '14 the talk was "worst since mid-19th century". Then the above and now? No biggie according to you and the other "it's cyclical" yellins. Why are you taking this approach? It has a "nothing to see here, BUSINESS AS USUAL appearance, you knOw what I mean? Is that smart? Me? I hope the place burns to a crisp this summer and the Arctic ice has another flash crash this summer. BTW, the odds on both of those happening are suddenly UP.
It's a Malfunction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dfr8YcAnCU
just left SoCal myself.
SoCal is the LAST PLACE you want to be when/if SHTF
seriously..the LAST FUCKING PLACE
1 guy likes the idea of fighting 30 million people for a drink of water.
He's a real man but he couldn't comment on the downvote so we're left to speculate on what kind of badass motherfucker would want to be there when the SHTF.
Great short article on some of the big things that this will mean to the rest of us.
10 Disastrous Effects of the California Drought
http://www.prep-blog.com/2015/04/20/10-disastrous-effects-of-the-california-drought/