What I found suprising was we didn't hear anything this summer about water restrictions or water conservation like we have in hot summers past. Interesting.
I was pouring myself a glass of tap water the other day and thinking exactly what you wrote.
When the local "news" (lol) programs were threatening us with a severe water shortage a couple or three years ago, taking film crews out to the reservoirs and lakes and showing the *frightening* water levels, predicting death and mayhem, so to speak, I asked the Lord if I needed to pray about this -- was it really that bad? I had the feeling they were beating drums for a manufactured disaster. After praying over time, I just had the strongest sense that they were in an old playbook and were not basing their projections on anything but fear not founded in fact, on the assumption they needed to tell us to ration our toilet flushes or something.
It rained good and plenty when we needed it.
Wash, rinse, repeat. I think they finally realized how silly they were being and knocked it off.
LOL...
I've been here 18 years and I agree the last few summers have been sunnier than the first few years.
I was just thinking of the fact that even talking about the weather isn't safe with the lefties. when we get around to talking about how relatively warm and dry the summer has been...that's right, you guessed it.... it's the start to a "global warming" is Bush's fault rant:)