Posted on 02/11/2017 9:21:52 AM PST by Mariner
Hope you have a life vest
I’ve long loved California, and have hated what has become of it. I think we should fight to win it back, myself. I wish I had been around to experience it, before the moonbats gained control. Some areas are still rational, even on the Pacific coast, but they’re under siege.
Floods are not possible, because I have read (literally) hundreds of times that the droughts were permanent and solely caused by global warming
“With the snow melting off the mountains you guys should be good to go, no?”
You’ve hit on our problem. We have not build a major water storage facility since 1979. Then there were 20 million here, now it’s nearly double that number. Plus, Los Angeles has had two of it’s traditional sources of water cut substantially (Colorado and Owens Rivers) and our agriculture has been allowed to expand in a major fashion. Right now, we can’t store all the early runoff from rain, because we have to make room for the snow melt. The majority of those releases just go out to sea through San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately, the tree huggers keep the building of new reservoirs tied up in court, so the problem gets worse. Desalinization would have been a good idea if we had kept our nuclear power plants, but they are on their way out, so the only way to get electricity to run a desal plant would have to come from fossil fuels which are also no no’s. So like our financial situation, our water situation is in the same place, and the idiot voters won’t see it coming until it’s really here. I just want it to crash here, the sooner the better.
I was born in this valley in 1956.
I can testify about the paradise years. “The Crown Jewel of the US” IS NOT AN OVERSTATEMENT.
What’s even more surprising there wasn’t a single mention of global warming or climate change in the San Fran Chronicle article! It’s a miracle!
floods, droughts, wars, and rumors of wars
These concepts are missing in the halls of the California legislature.
Drought over....
now the cost of water will revert to prior prices....WRONG
If California had the good sense to upgrade and expand their reservoir systems, even in water lean times, they’d be sitting pretty right now, but no, bloated retirement pensions and BART janitors that make bank and sleep all day are more important.
Too bad the government ignored and banned the bible. The solution to the years of plenty vs years of drought and famine was written thousands of years ago.
I’d like to retire to Carmel, if Clint Eastwood would just mount a coup, lol.
geez that’s a ton of bad news about not doing the right thing for the past twenty years or so. No nuclear power for desalinization plants, no newly built reservoirs, environmentalists don’t want this built or that built or oil used. The Day of Reckoning will come but I know that people from Free Republic live there so I do not cherish it. throw what I heard is several hundred billion in unfunded pension liabilities and geez
I was born and raised in California, and back then it was paradise. Then the libs began to destroy it, and I got the hell out of there in 1979. Today it isn’t even part of the U.S.
Drought over....
now the cost of water will revert to prior prices....WRONG!
That reality, increased property taxes for schools, that are ganglands and other liberal hidden tax insults are making one of our Female half liberal in laws into a going Galt Conservative.
That’s because this earth is their heaven, in their hearts they know hell awaits.
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die...
If your home is downstream, you might consider having a get out hell bag ready to go and any important paperwork in a water tight container ready to go.
We have had the above reading due to fire danger, floods and past earthquakes.
No, the Water Resources Control Board just ruled California is still in a drought. So we don't really need to worry about any Biblical flooding.
It started in the 60’s when the flower children moved to San Francisco. If the good people of CA could have looked into a crystal ball they could have stopped this destruction. As bad as it seems, it’s mainly the large cities where the infection is gangrenous.
I have been over there many times and as soon as you leave the cities radio stations are either conservative talk or church music. Great and warm patriotic Americans.
While I have no problem with San Francisco and LA leaving the union, I think the rest of CA should be granted statehood.
I don’t see how California could be overdue for ‘biblical’ anything, as most of them seem to deny the existence or relevance of the Bible. They’d sooner blame W Bush or Trump.
I’m good with it. Flush all the illegals and libs out.
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