[TheRhinelander]

Yep. I solved the problem by living somewhere that doesn’t have these drought issues.

My friend and I joke around that California is Indian for “Don’t live here”. Deserts also apply.

[familyop]

"Yep. I solved the problem by living somewhere that doesn’t have these drought issues.

My friend and I joke around that California is Indian for “Don’t live here”. Deserts also apply."

Good move, IMO. It's bad here in Calirado now, too (dryness, socialism, animal worship, environmentalism, NIMBY-ism...all of that).

Never seen it this dry. The grass on my place (short, thin mixture of high altitude perennials) crackles underfoot. It's weird. Fires have been popping up all around us for quite a few days. Smoke everywhere, 24/7.

Anything would set the trees or grass off here now. I've seen fires on 300-meter berms on Midwestern Army posts in the past (5.56mm hardball), and the conditions in those places and times were nothing like this. Seems like there's no humidity at all, and I've been up here more than a decade. We're prepared to scrape dead grass and pour water to the ground from the cistern. Already scraped around the generator for pumping water for quite a distance, just in case. Winds here can easily gust over 80 mph in summer and often do. There are also the frequent dust devils, sometimes nearly like dust tornadoes.