[muawiyah]

Or, you could have started building a large Grand Canal running North and South between the major river systems in the Plains.

Since the cycle of Great Droughts in North America follows a pattern similar to that of China, it only makes sense to build a canal to connect the rivers of the Northern Plains with the rivers of the Southern Plains.

NOTE: You usually don't have a Great Drought in the East, West, South and North simultaneously. They move around from area to area.

Instead somebody wasted all the money on windmills.

[GeronL]

Billions on windmills and power lines that guarantee us blackouts next summer.