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To: blam

My brother lives in the southwest and he said normally it is very dry from a historical perspective. The last few hundred years he says have been unusually wet.

He studied atmospheric chemistry, so he’s probably a reliable source.


2 posted on 06/21/2022 3:08:47 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Feds better keep their hands off the Great Lakes.

Ca also shooting itself in the foot by not putting in desalination plants on coast


6 posted on 06/21/2022 3:11:18 PM PDT by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will not purchase Coke Products- Get woke go broke-)
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To: packagingguy

How m,uch of our water is Mexico getting? They used to open the spillways from Lake Mead and send it south.


44 posted on 06/21/2022 4:00:39 PM PDT by neverbluffer
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I had an anecdotal description to me of a condition about a region of New Mexico that was a similar story to the remarks of your brother.

In 1971, I was riding shotgun on a ferry run with a friend of my father to deliver an old Jeep to our deer hunting camp in the Gila Mountains. Using an International 4x4 pickup for the job.

Paul was born in the 1900teens I would guess. The highway north out of Las Cruces is in desolate, dry lands except for irrigated strips along the Rio Grande river. Mountain ranges are east and west of the river. Paul told me that when he was a boy, these lands were covered with grass but the rains stopped and it turned to desert.

To give a sense of how rugged these lands are now, NASA had a facility in them where the Apollo moon astronauts trained on driving the moon buggy. The sand and rocks stood in for the surface of the moon.

52 posted on 06/21/2022 4:22:53 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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