[moovova]

Seriously, we’ve had rain for 8 days, with the prediction of 4 more days of rain. Every. Single. Day. I don’t remember getting this much rain for this long. I’d almost think there was something to this Global Precipitation crisis.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Where are you getting all this rain?

It’s quite cold and dry here in the Inland Northwest. It is finally forecasted to warm up in the next week to ten days. Evenings and night times are still sweatshirt, sweater, and jacket weather.

[Myrddin]

We've had very few "nice" days in SE Idaho this Spring. It never really warmed up. Lots of rain and t-storms every day. The whole period of days getting longer has been lost to rain/t-storms. We even had frost on the first day of Summer. I've been trying to get my ham HF antennas up and tuned. My workday is nominally 8 AM to 5 PM. By the time the workday is over, the t-storms are in full bloom. You don't do antenna work with lightning strikes 2 to 10 miles away. It's Friday. I worked excessive hours this week and really could have taken the day off. 1 PM and the first lightning strikes are 3 miles away.

I waited all Winter for temperatures to get above 50F so that I could swap out the stock dual sport wheels/tires on my Suzuki DR650 for a set of 17 inch supermoto tires with proper street tires. That work is complete, but the rain/t-storms have also stolen opportunity to enjoy the fruits of that labor.

[Eva]

I read the other day that CA’s largest reservoir is at 99%, now. I was wondering how Lake Mead was doing and other lakes in the southwest.

The Agenda 21 proposes that he who controls the water, controls everything. The Pacific Northwest took this to heart in the early nineties, when the signed on to the original Agenda 21, by taking the issue to court (all the way to the Supreme Court) with the Lummi Tribe. They claimed that an old treaty which gave the as much salmon and as much water as they needed meant that they could have all the water. The Supreme Court turned it down.

They took it back to the SupremeCourt, while there was a vacancy after Scalia’s death and got a 4-4 ruling which sent it back to the state, where the same attorney, who originally lost the case to the Supreme Court, was now on the WA State Supreme Court, gave the water rights to the tribes, nullifying the water rights on all private property in unincorporated areas of the state. So far, they have only enforced that in Whatcom County.

This relates to the Navaho case because it rains in WA. It rains a lot. It doesn’t rain in the deserts of the Southwest, so need is at question. In WA, they want to tear down the dams, which supply the cheapest, most reliable form of power there is. Those dams were not originally built for electricity, that was a bonus. Those dams were built for flood control. WA gets too much rain and has melting glaciers, which add to the water rushing through the state, supplying all the water the tribes need. Yet, they have taken away our water rights.