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California's "Unprecedented" Drought In Pictures
California's drought has reached epic proportions, prompting Governor Jerry Brown and state water regulators to adopt "unprecedented" (and some say draconian) measures to counter what is perhaps the only example of a liquidity crisis more acute than that which investors face in secondary bond markets.
Cities will be forced to cut consumption by as much as 36%, a mandate that is expected to cost utilities upwards of $1 billion, lost revenue which, as we noted earlier this week, will promptly be recouped in the form of higher prices for any consumer who isn’t a MotherFracker.
So with the state preparing to crack down on “wasters” in the form of $10,000 fines, and with more than 12 million dead trees greatly increasing the chances that wildfires could spread out of control, we bring you the drought in pictures:
We'll leave you with the following rather somber assessment from a professor of public policy at USC (via Politico):
“Politicians are paying attention, because some people — mainly the media and interest groups — are paying attention,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor of public policy at the University of Southern California. “But I’m not at all sure it’s really hitting home yet with the average voter. When they start to see rate increases, and fines for overuse, and brown lawns, then they will be paying a lot of attention. I think the politicians are smart to be trying to get ahead of it, because this is the new normal. We are a desert, and we should have remained a desert.”
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Yet how much water is being consumed by the NSA data center? Not to mention fracking operations using millions of gallons while polluting the aquifers.
Good luck Commiefornia!
No sweat, the TPP will solve all these problems.
Not!
Yellen will just print up some paper water.
Keep on Fracking!
'Global warming will cause more hurricanes, typhoons, thunderstorms, heavy downpours and erosion'.....
But really who gives a shit about kolifornia? I'd rather talk about labor stats. BORING! And we ain't got room for boring!
Stop spraying shit outta planes/geoengineering, and let it rain
"We are a desert, and we should have remained a desert.”
Truer words were never spoken.
First off,I don't know what the point of this is.
Second, anyone who thinks that politicians and fines are part of the solution is so fucked up they should immediately be ignored.
Yes, please, let's solve a politically created situation with moar politics.
Third, if you don't live in CA, thanks for your opinion, we'll file it in the proper location for future consideration.
Would like to know what the difference in the legend between "exceptional drought" and "extreme drought" is. Seems things are getting so back they're running out of words.
Next up is "super duper extreme drought"?
The sheeple are being worked by the PTB ... again. It's obvious GeoEngineering to anyone not afraid to look. First question needs to be - What's that shit they're spraying in the formerly clear blue sky? Or just go with it and read up on the Joads.
"Our society has been very well trained to turn two blind eyes to the big picture, and to simply spend their time and energies only on their own pursuit of personal pleasures. If this paradigm is not overturned, and people do not choose to stand and face the challenges closing in on us, we will have no chance."
You guys are being worked up by the anti-thesis,
cut off the water.
E'nuf said?
Americans have 'exceptional' droughts
ROW have 'extreme' droughts
KT22 chair in Squaw getting rusty after three years...that's the benchmark of drought.
drought explained:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXlMzg6D8rw
(hint: look up)
the map makes it look pretty bad, but just to keep things in perspective:
the drought is primarily limited to the central valley and nearby surroundings
Makes one wonder if this drought remains long enough,
the rich would move out of state first, middle class as they can.
That portion of CA would be distilled down to folks that don't have much mobility, welfare families, illegals and the civil workers that serve them, lastly the buzzards that like to pick the bones.
It would impact the rest of CA which will be bailing out the other.
Texas will PU a bunch of nasty rich families that put sour cream on Tex-Mex. It should be interesting.
The Columbia River is long and wide and dumps zillions of gallons of fresh water into the Pacific just past Portland.
You conspiracy theorists should be trying to figure out why WA/OR don't sell some south ?
Kind of the same reason it isn't raining in California: radiation.
The Columbia is insanely polluted with radioactive crap from the Hanford site. They have to cover up the amount of cancer and birth defects in Portland and Vancouver (Washington, not Canada). If the Hanford Nuclear Garbage Dump was vaporized tomorrow, it would take five hundred years for the radioactive muck to wash out of the Columbia. Instead, the radioactive poison just keeps leaching out of Hanford through the groundwater along miles of the Columbia's banks. It will never stop. Just like Fukushima, they CAN'T stop it. Radioactive crap will leach into the Columbia for generations. Once it hit the aquifer in Hanford, you were screwed. That happened over thirty years ago and has continued every day since then.
California is being kept dry on purpose. All the radioactivity STILL spewing out of Fukushima (you didn't think it stopped, did you?) get's pulled straight over to the West Coast, where it's re-depositied by rain. That's why they stopped reporting radioactive levels of rain - it's huge on the West Coast. If they do any cloud seeding, it's way out over the ocean so the radioactivity is washed out before it hits land. The unusual high pressure keeping the jet stream and precipitation out of central California is engineered for that purpose. They are in panic mode as people figure this out. They can't keep it up forever, but they can't let the central valley get huge accumulations of cesium and uranium either. I would argue they can't keep washing it out in the West Coast's ocean because it will eventually kill everything there, but I see they've already made that call.
They will NEVER be able to keep hiding the effects of Fukushima from the public. When everyone stops eating fish from the West Coast and won't touch fruit, nuts or produce from the Imperial Valley, then they'll just try to counter it with more PR. At some point, they will simply make it illegal to measure or publicly report radiation levels in food grown there.
Welcome to the USSA - one banana-dose max, we promise.
I'm not sure about the 'why', but I 'm glad we agree about the 'what', the GeoEngineered stationary high pressure ridge off the California coast. Can't fool Paveway.
I'm sure the Torrey Pines and Pebble beach have no shortage of water.
And that is worth noting. Between Agenda 21 and Georgia Guidestones madness and chem-trailing....it's how they are distributing what isthere that is the tell.
There is a HUGE water dependent immigrant farming community in the central valley. Many of these land owners were literally imported from India (Sikhs) in the 60s to come and farm the belt.
What are they going to do? So it all looks liek to be setting up for a lot of displacement. Displaced people are so easy to control.
Meanwhile, CLeanse your Mind..Sequence 17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrvoWEw2J8
The great famine which I sense approaching
Will often turn [up in various areas] then become worldwide.
It will be so vast and long-lasting that [people] will grab
Roots from the trees and children from the breast.
I've never seen a worser drought ... at least, not since Lehman....
There is water in the Columbia coming in from Canada that is far upstream to Hanford. Canada has more water than they know what to do with. Consider the Columbia River Treaty is beginning to be re-negotiated at this very moment with the exception of the Obumbles administration dropping the ball in behalf of the US. If it were not for Canada and their part of the treaty in managing flood control Portland and other river cities would be washed out to sea.
The only way to get radioactive rain is for upper-atmospheric particles to end up condensing in clouds and precipitating. The only way to get sufficient particles into the atmosphere is through explosions not by evaporation from seawater.
"...The only way to get radioactive rain is for upper-atmospheric particles to end up condensing in clouds and precipitating..."
Or for rain to entrain gasses and adsorb suspended particles in the raindrop as they fall, which supposes the radionuclides are mixed into lower levels of atmosphere in storms. The model of upper-atmosphere particulates remaining 'above' storms or only surving as raindrop nuclii has failed over and over again. A child with a Geiger counter can measure radioactive rain today that should not have the levels of natural or man-made radiation that it apparently has.
"...The only way to get sufficient particles into the atmosphere is through explosions not by evaporation from seawater..."
That's what CNN keeps telling me. Yet I know that there's still 24x7 outgassing of the 'cooling water' flowing through the buildings, contstant remobilization of the radioactive dust and pollen in the contaminated areas and periodic releases of plumes that can be inferred and measured as they rain out around the globe. There haven't been any explosions in a few years and I agree that seawater evaporation probably isn't a source. Contaminated cooling water open to the atmosphere flowing through the aisles of Turbine Hall #1 and #2 are the source. And they will have that fixed.... well, never.
@ 'SafelyGraze':
How much agricultural FRESH water was diverted into the ocean in order to save whatever the fuck the name of the 'protected' sea-smelt snail was called, again; in the San Joachin Valley and the Sacramento Delta areas?
I got your 'perspective', HANGING, RIGHT HERE, you sheep-fucker.
Are you E.P.A., or simply ANOTHER commiesymplant?
Double Dog Drought?
After "Exceptional Drought" is "Ludicrous Drought."
It's a paradise drought. Everything is awesome in the recovery.
"They've gone plaid!!!"
Double Secret Drought.
Can't speak for all of us but I am not here to help. I am here to tweak and belittle you kooks. Your states trends have caused America a lot of heartache. Payback is a bitch.
God is letting Kalifornians know that he's f'ing done with you people.
Things like water don't matter if you're a member of "the club"
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Frankie, when your food bill skyrockets because California produce yields are down, don't whine. After all, according to you, it's God's will that you pay more.
I live in Florida. We can handle that food thingy for you guys.
Americas wang vs. Americas bunghole. We kid, because we are Americas large intestine.
Florida used to be celery capital thanks to the Dudas, now they harvest citrus & cattle.
Feeding cattle from powerlines & palmfronds.
Got a sister in Florida. The Pensacola area. Love the seafood there (at least prevDeepwater Horizon). Got it at Joe Patty's (think that was the spelling). To be honest, didn't think much of the veggies there. Good fruit.
Pensacola seafood is in danger too. Atlanta now has so many people that they are sucking dry the river which feeds the Pensacola estuary, aka the Pensacola fisheries and oyster bars. And at the same time, the Gulf of Mexico water has that poison "dispersant" in it, because, when the BP oil well blew up, the EPA had planes spread the dispersant on the Gulf of Mexico to sink the oil so that the spill wouldn't look too scary on television. Now nobody knows where the poison is or what it's killing.
Wherever you go on planet Earth, every enjoyable natural resource is under attack by overpopulation.
Overpopulation isn't the problem.
Greed is the problem.
Upvoted anyway.
Overpopulation is one form of greed, and it is a very real problem.
There is more than enough to go around.
How much food gets thrown away at the wholesaler?
How much food gets thrown away at the Grocery Store?
How much food gets thrown away at the Consumer level?
At best, under the consumerist model- only 25% of what is caught is consumed by the intended market.
The rest is consumed by scavengers.
Greed is the problem.
There is more than enough to go around.
Capitalism is th emost wasteful and inefficient monetary system inherently.
The global food waste is staggering.
ORI, where do you see Capitalism? Capitalism is like another endangered species. You have to look long and hard to find it now-a-days. What we have instead is crony fascism. Lots of malinvestment. I agree that is wasteful.
I see a bunch of spineless, ineffective, neutered whiner babies discussing the results of the Hegelian Dialectic in terms of trying to thread the 'Eye Of The Needle'. You are looking and agruing about the minutae of the after-effects of the pre-planned and pre-detemined results of the artificial creation of the problems that are now becoming apparent; but NOT calling upon your so-called 'strength' and 'power' in order to ERADICATE these malevolent destructive motherfuckers in order that your children might live.
LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S A BIRD! ITS A PLANE!
No, IT'S 'chemtrail-man! A wild 'conspiracy-theory' from another planet...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2NK_xeYsUI
Fucking bunch of 'magic bullet theory' pontificators, I think. They argue about what THEY think is 'free-market capitalism', while the world is failing in all ways.
Corporatism is not the same thing as Capitalism. Do not confuse the two.
How many My Forests have you burned? How many of My Estuaries have you silted-up? How many of My Oceans have you poisoned and warmed? How many of My Rivers have you dammed and ruined? AFTER you humans give all those back to My Planet, THEN I shall reconsider My coming Apocalypse. You humans always try to DENY, by directing attention AWAY from the parts of the equation that include your personal actions, and TOWARD the parts of the equation that include other people's actions. I gave you the ability to look at the entire equation, and soon I shall REQUIRE you to look at the entire equation, including your own personal actions. Delay not, for there shall there be much weeping and gnashing of teeth. REPENT! THE END IS NEAR!
Something like that. You can fool people, but you can't fool Math.
Duplicate
Good Luck Frankie, I've been to your swamp before. At least here it's a dry heat... ;P
We can just import food from Mexico and China, like everything else.
I once lived in Flawed-Duh, Winter Garden, Port St. Joe, and Panama City.
Went back for a visit in Port St Joe/Overstreet and toured Appalchicola. Wow, essentially no more oysters in Appalachicola Bay. And shrimp from the gulf is suspect. Seafood Festival must suck ass these days.
However, I do agree that Florida could replace California for food production if the State would eliminate the planted pines for the papermills. North Florida could churn out more food than the central valley WITHOUT the need for extensive canals and ground water. The rain is pretty much every other day.
Now I live in the real, actual desert of California where I grew up. I much prefer the dryness, lack of cockroaches (including those ten inch flying, mutant cockroaches aka Palmetto Bugs), and complete lack of mosquitos.
Cali is getting 'Monkeyhammered' by the drought...that bad?!
OldPhart:
When the SHTF, we'll be eating those Palmetto Bugs properly fried Southern style for our protein supply. I'll gladly ship as many as you'll need. They're free as in Obamacare and infinite in supply.
Growing our iceberg lettuce in the desert was never really a good idea anyway.
And there ya go, plus one.
Hey Bay: In a very friendly way I'd like to point out the your Californian centric view of the unverse is why so many Americans are commenting and cheering on your demise. Your premise that you feed everyone is patently wrong. Here in the Midwest we are more than comfortable raising our own fresh vegetables for the summer and winter consumption. We even can our over production and have classic things called root cellars for extending freshness. We live within our means which includes the land and water limitations. The population of iowa has remained constant for 175 for a reason.
I strongly encourage everyone in california to humble themselves before God and fix your crisis. I can't speak for the universe, but I can say that not many people in southern iowa will be selling land to anyone trying to migrate from california. Although I will be glad to pay you a fair wage to work my land for a dry bed and a couple meals in the future if you don't figure this out on your own.
Peace
You are so right.
The fact that it was cheaper to pump water onto arid land under blue skies made it easy to farm, not that most of what they were doing was farming really just living in a huge temporary green house is all they were really doing. All of the production California claims that feeds the world was all done somewhere else for real before and will be done there again long after their green house desert dries up. Sure it costs a little more to farm actual farmland but we in the Midwest and Plains states will be just fine. In fact since the 08 dive followed by the rise in oil prices before this latest slide there have been many new smaller farms growing out here raising produce that was done in California before using cheap water and cheap fuel. Time to level the agricultural playing field once again.
He said he wouldn't ever flood it again, he never said anything about taking the water away..lol
Actually, the perfectly merciful One is letting Kalifornians know he's still there and is getting impatient with "modern" morality. There's still time to admit there's some accountability and their part and pray for a little rain (and stop blaming global warming).
When he is "f'ing done with you people", we will all know it and we won't enjoy it.
Are you the Frankie Carbone from Hartford?
I upvoted you even though I'm pretty sure you do not actually speak for God. Nature does.
As long as you promise not leave California. (Otherwise, we might have to find a different "solution" for you...)
Consider Austin closed!
Nah Tek,
They should fit right in. You guys could quadruple deck highway I-35, just sayin'.
When Californians turn on their taps and nothing comes out, then perhaps they will chant "moar", and Someone will hear their chant and will make water out of wine for them.
During their entire lifetime, turning on the tap has resulted in water pouring out.
They can't see what their future holds.
They can talk to their neighbors through their empty water pipes and save money on their phone bills.
California is the world's largest exporter of water .... in the form of produce and wine.
Be careful for what you laugh about, because when it gets really bad, the Federalies will step in to tax the rest of America because of National (food) Security Issues to do something or other with Water, some more and worse, to boot.
But the rest of America will be footing the bill
Most of that shitty wine is full of arsenic and the produce is all full of radiation. Let it shrivel and die. I'll be just fine.
Knukles, Don't forget the POT we export alot of POT...That takes ALOT of H2O to grow. :p
I recommend California politicians make a brownie campaign on Congress. Good brownies make good neighbors. The time is NOW! :0)
Carl Spackler: This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff.
HA HA HA :-) :-) :-) Now THAT's is going to revive the golf industy. :-)
Weed grows in drier conditions, just sayin'
Oh shit, I've forgotten about the OG.... Quick divert the Colorado into California!!!!
Yep. Add California to the Too Big and Greedy to Fail list.
We make wine and produce on the east coast from Maine to Flordia. Not too worried. Growing produce and making wine in the desert was never really a good idea.
Here in Nevada the greatest threat to our water is ...California...so pardon us for caring.
If you dont mind, please post a link to the letter sent to the FEDGOV which California declines any Federal funds to deal with the drought. thanks,
We will take our fair share of Federal Funds thank you. Actually we are getting tired of subsidizing Red State Federal Teat Sucking Hypocrits.
Thanks for playing Red vs Blue! Yipeee!
OH, HE SAID FAIR!!!!
That's why they grow rice in the San Joaquin Valley. Makes perfect sense now, doesn't it? And cotton.
The only reason crops like that are grown is that the Goobermeint (in so many words) got involved in the water allocations business in the first place that some forks got that much water.
One of the Biggest Fastest Growing Mega Billion Doaalr Business this year is selling (annual deal) your water rights to somebody else.
Now, that don't happen unless somebody's allocating water when it should be a price based syatem.
Y'all just wait when all we'll fucking ship you is frozen lettuce.
Tell 'em to "go jump in a lake", OH WAIT!
I think I saw a science-fiction movie about that: "Tank Girl".
great movie
reminds me of wife #2
Hang on, that means price discovery got busted way, way back when. Gol darn.
by the way, for those who may not know better...
1. 1/2 of these pictures look like California pictures in the middle of any Summer regardless of wet/dry
2. Did the photographer expect a cattle stockyard to be green? Seriously?
3. Showing a nice green golf course surrounded by dryness is also typical California desert golf course
note: I realize the situation in my home state is terrible....but these pictures are a terrible representation of the situation.
I picked up on the very same.... especially the feed lots and regular wet or dry summer.
The thing ought to be looked at is the water levels of the reservoirs and canals.
There's the tells!
And as of yet, best I can tell, the folks from the LA basin, etc (Large voter pockets who get shipped their water, STOLEN from the rest of the state) still don't think there's a problem.
To wit: Some of the Big Money LA type neighborhoods so far cut water usage by what was it announced the other day... 3%
Amazing how the nit-wits seem to think that this is relegated and contained within CA's borders outside of which there will be zero impact and consequences
Y'all from outside CA. Just wait until Congress and DC decides that this has to be taken care of by Federal Programs that will take over the state infrastructure, create a bazillion dollar Federal Water program for the whole fucking country, and raise taxes on you for CA's sake ......
It's already happening.
One of my buds in Phoenix area (And they's got LOTS of water, pals) says that local agriculture interests have been visited by the FEDS and asked what "Other' crops they could grow, which and how much on the very same lands, if they had water cutbacks.
Yes. The telling photos are the ones which show bare lake banks far below the grass lines. All that used to be lake. And the photo of the marina is good, too.
the reservoirs were just as low during the 70s drought. bone dry, but we weren't flushing what was left down the river courses to benefit the smelt.
question 1: california has always been a land of extremes, and has historically had long dry spells. what did the smelt do when gerry brown wasn't there to "save' them?
question 2: everybody is so worked up about 5-7 year droughts (which historically happen in california every 40-50 years). this ain't nothing.....there have been several droughts lasting 50+ years in the last few thousand years...... they waste water like nobody's business, and all this will be forgotten in a snap as soon as we get a wet season. why don't they conserve water all the time instead of going into a panic when the lakes have drawn down most of the way?
I have heard of the hydro-logical cycle, which I think is a science term. And I have heard of the HYDRO-ILLOGICAL CYCLE, which I think is a political term The latter refers to public awareness driving legislation. The public runs out of a resource (water), and screams, and legislators scramble to write new laws. Then the public finds new ways to run out of the resource again. And, usually, it gets worse every time, which is part of the reason that taxes keep getting higher.
I think I have found that taxes are proportional to population. A sparsely-populated area tends to not need to IMPORT resources, and therefore can have low taxes. An overpopulated area needs to IMPORT resources, and that gets expensive, and the overpopulate area therefore WILL have high taxes. Simple math.
I cross a the concrete California Canal about once a week or so. Have never seen a change in water level. Lake Silverwood is still brimming with water and occasionally is drained via an outlet that allows water out when it reaches a certain level. There's no control on it, it's basically like the hole in the rim of a bathroom sink. Goes down a spillway, meanders through a cattle ranch and out to the Mojave River. Once in the Mojave River it usually peters out and goes on as underground flow, popping up briefly at Mojave Narrows, rocky area between Apple Valley and Victorville. It sometimes makes it to Oro Grande before going underground heading North to Barstow and beyond. Oh, yeah, one of the few North flowing rivers in America.
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/riversno.htm
wow, another geography trivia freak. rivers that flow north: this is why much of siberia is unusable....most of it drains north to the arctic. every spring, the source melts off long before the mouth does, so the blockage floods the hell out of much of the continent.
same thing, on a much smaller scale, happens on the Red River in the midwest here in the US. one of the more flood prone rivers in the US, for this very reason.
California is still a desert. A Disneyfied desert, but when you past the surface glitz, the desert has always been there.
Truer words were never spoken.
go tell it to mafia hotel & casino owners of nevada then...
Part of California is a desert.
The average rainfall in Los Angeles has been 15 inches a year. The water that runs through the Los Angeles river, empties into the Los Angeles harbor. The river never dries up, even with no rain for 6 months out of the year. None of it is reclaimed for use.
Apparently, most of the water usage in the state has been by agriculture, which uses up to 80%, not home owners in L.A., watering their lawns.
The government has mis managed water supplies. The population has grown to near 40 million, without addressing the need for proper management and planning.
This is an exceptional drought, but an El Nino is brewing in the Pacific and it is possible that above average rainfall will occur this winter.
A desert is defined as 10" of rain or less per year.
Is LA desert? No.
Is SF desert? No.
Is even San Diego desert? No.
Are the Sierra Nevada mountains, where the majority of California's water supply comes from, desert? No.
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Something is definitely happening...
http://www.westernjournalism.com/return-high-pressure-ridge/
It's not normal to have a High Pressure Ridge sit in one spot for weeks at a time.
Would that idea make more sense to you if you knew the jet stream was manipulated?
Something is definitely happening...
http://www.westernjournalism.com/return-high-pressure-ridge/
It's not normal to have a High Pressure Ridge sit in one spot for weeks at a time.
who care... they will pay painters to make it green just like the 5 last years...
"It's not normal to have a High Pressure Ridge sit in one spot for weeks at a time."
It doesn't rain in southern California for 6 months out of the year. That is normal.
2015 Summer Blockbuster: We Be Stealin' Yo Water 'Cause We Prettier Than You starring Clooney and the rest of 'em. Coming straight to DVD near you.
Let us handle labor and immigration by hiring the hordes of criminal aliens to build a wall between California and Mexico and the US. Just make sure when they are done they are on the OTHER side.
usc professor sherry jeffe is fostered on the people of calif every election and during times like this. this old sow is so liberal that she makes commies look good. politco and el Jeffe teaming up......surprise surprise.
p.s. what's with the pictures of the feed lots......could have been taken anywhere. never have seen a feed lot green....hense the term "FEED" lot......
California is what happens when you piss off GOD. The Book of Amos warns that punishments will get worse until people repent.
Do tell...no, on the other hand I am in no mood for fairy tales.
Agree JLee. Everyone keep thinking this is short term "cyclical", while death creeps in on a nation under judgement. Water is a vital human requirement. The fact that it is either being removed, or weather patterns changing drastically, is more than just coincidental.
Truth
Bett a c note that when it comes to the natural sciences I would spank you. So spare me the "science can explain things horseshit"
The Book of Andy does so too.
WHOA! I used to laugh until it hurt listening to Amos and Andy. :-)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=amos+and+andy
double post :-(
geoengineering had nothing to do with it right?
or was God the co-pilot?
The Book of Anus? "Thou shall spread thine young virginal bottom cheeks and accept the Lord into thine stinky holy hole."
That is the books of the FED and politicians everywhere.
If you think your invisible friend can control the weather, you're delusional.
Who parted the Red Sea? Flooded the entire World? And then there was this:
Matthew Chapter 8
23 He (Jesus) got into a boat and his disciples followed him.
24 Suddenly a violent storm 18 came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep.
25 They came and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! 19 We are perishing!"
26 He said to them, "Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?" 20 Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm.
27 The men were amazed and said, "What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?"
1. And then he woke up.
2. He realized he wasnt Jesus Jesus, but a mexican named Jesus.
3. He also saw that he wasn't in a boat, but in desert.
4. He was very thirsty.
2. He realized he wasnt Jesus Jesus, but a mexican named Hay-soos.
There, fixed it for ya
Question: "Who parted the Red Sea? Flooded the entire World?"
Answer: Nobody.
Question: Who's made-up diety offers 72 virgins???
Better marketing, perhaps?
Calfornia never has any water , the day i see a Nestle water truck been carjacked by the bloods and gallons sold on the street corner then i will pay attention untill then fuck um.
I find this rather emblematic, both a testament and tibute to human resilience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMgAGGC5OY
They started working on a solution in th 50s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power_Alliance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERq86OlS-_k
I for one, hope it never comes to pass...
Awesome soundtrack on that link. Thanks.
"Lake" Deloris...past Barstow on the way to Lost Wages.
Didn't exist when I was a kid, didn't exist when I came back from Flawed-duh.
As a kid I go swim in the muddy puddles of the quarry over the hill from the house.
Now I'm the Corporate Controller for that quarry, and forty nine other entities.
3D printers to the rescue. A toast to the CA urine drinkers.
Anyone want to invest in my startup? I'm planning to release an app that allows you to download dehydrated water at a dollar a gallon.
Just add water.
All of the problems will be resolved with higher prices that every person living in the US will have to pay. CA will be just fine - the rest of the USSA could be fracked. At least it might cure the fat problem.
There's plenty of water - just too many people.
Not to worry! CA's fearless Gov. Brown is on the job fighting the drought by trying to convince any and all illegals to come to the state:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/08/26/jerry-brown-to-mexica...
Hey CA, we really fucked up by not planning for what we warned you about for decades, so now pay us more and give us more power and we'll solve the problem we created by mismanaging our state resources in the first place. And people vote for these dolts.
And, don't forget the high speed rail. That will make it all better.
Why does California always have a drought when Jerry Brown is governor? Maybe he could try changing his name to Green.
He must now choose, between millions of aging hippies' many contradictory sensibilities, including the plight of an unremarkable baitfish.
The water crisis is a way to take all the illegals and spread them across the country to voting precincts where they are needed. CA is screwed already they will help the rest of the country become irrevocably dependent on .gov.
There's always going to be a halfwit in the crowd. Note the thumbs down, bless his dumbass little heart. See that same dumbass has the power of voting. The southern 1/3rd of AZ is a desert and yet it is home to more and more people all the time, except its still just a fraction of CA.
You don't try to see how many people you can cram in a desert and then when the acquifers dry up or the snowshed on mountains a 1000 miles away have a bad year, wonder why there isn't enough water for the hordes.
7 billion and counting on this planet - Only the total braindead will believe that their isn't going to be a few hiccoughs along the way to 10 billion.
To the southwest of my childhood home are two gold mine attempts. One is a dry hole going into solid rock for about forty feet. Across the gully is another mine that I don't know how far it goes because it's completely flooded. Water table on that hill is about six feet. Along the hill is a florishing Pecan Orchard that has no watering system.
A friends dad (nearest neighbor), three miles up the road and on the south side, griped about digging postholes for a fence and constantly hitting water.
The Dude Ranch I worked at age eleven filled it's pool from a pipe hammered into the side of the hill. The only control was on on/off valve.
Our side of the road and we had/have a well that was 1,100 feet deep.
Further up, on the south side, at you begin the ascent up Cushenberry Grade to Big Bear Lake, just before Mitsubishi (formerly Kaiser Cement) there is flowing water, reeds, and massive oaks. I did my first pig castration there at age ten.
In Palm Springs, you can barely dig a hole without getting water.
On the surface, everything around the area is desert. Palm Springs surrounding area looks like the Sahara. But there's massive quantities of water if you know where the springs are.
Oh, and for the record...it snowed in Big Bear today.
The NSA data center (the new one) is located in Utah, not Commiefornia.
But hey, fuck the truth.
"The NSA data center (the new one) is located in Utah, not Commiefornia"
The Drought extends into Utah too. Utah, Nevada, Commiefornia, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are all in severe drought.
A large sinkhole, due to agricultural ground water use, is threatening I-15 near Enoch Utah.
The entire central valley is a sinkhole. Evil step-sister lives in Merced, her homes elevation has dropped ten feet in the last ten years,
I haven't seen this much rain in Austin in 20 years.
Texas is not so bad. The desert areas are still the desert areas. The illegals crossing publish good weather reports.
I'm in San Antonio right now floating in the pool, sipping a cool one while it gently rains.... very nice this drought.