Well not for all of us.
Posted on 05/13/2015 10:02:58 AM PDT by blam
Michael Snyder
May 12th, 2015
What are we going to do once all the water is gone? Thanks to the worst drought in more than 1,000 years, the western third of the country is facing the greatest water crisis that the United States has ever seen. Lake Mead is now the lowest that it has ever been since the Hoover Dam was finished in the 1930s, mandatory water restrictions have already been implemented in the state of California, and there are already widespread reports of people stealing water in some of the worst hit areas. But this is just the beginning. Right now, in a desperate attempt to maintain somewhat “normal” levels of activity, water is being pumped out of the ground in the western half of the nation at an absolutely staggering pace. Once that irreplaceable groundwater is gone, that is when the real crisis will begin. If this multi-year drought stretches on and becomes the “megadrought” that a lot of scientists are now warning about, life as we know it in much of the country is going to be fundamentally transformed and millions of Americans may be forced to find somewhere else to live.
Simply put, this is not a normal drought. What the western half of the nation is experiencing right now is highly unusual. In fact, scientists tell us that California has not seen anything quite like this in at least 1,200 years…
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That was probably still Jerry Brown.
Great post; you have capsulized the major issues in one neat post. The PC thought police will be right over, but the building crisis and solutions are easy to see if you take off the leftist Marxist blinders.
it would be best for the country if everything west of the rockies dried up and blew away or fell into the ocean.... good riddance and likewise for the libtard northeast....
That’s because there wasn’t 20,000,000 people living in the middle of the deserts near the San Gabriel Mountains.
You overbuild, and this is what happens. We had a pretty serious drought in CA in the 1970’s too. Seven years in NorCal of rain less than 10 inches or so.
This is going to happen in CA. But hey, go ahead and build that new Intel plant in San Jose. They’ll find the 4M gallons per day of water somewhere.
Yep.
You said it.
Winner winner chicken dinner
The orchardists in the Hood River Valley (Oregon) have been warned this is the worst drought “on record”.....Mt. Hood Snow water equivalent is 14 inches where normal is 48 inches. Hood River is running 40% below normal. Irrigation district is encouraging orchardists to reduce water use by 25%...so they won’t have to implement “extreme measures.” Will be an interesting year.
Oh a wise guy eh? Tryinda use common sense, eh? Shaddup n siddown!
Yup.
Me either. I get five feet of rain a year:
1000 years my a$$
LOL....I watched Intel open their first facility in Mt View while working at National Semiconductor.... just down the road.
They have serious case of cognitive dissonance...
Most deny he ever said it...
That’s funny. Last I heard, Lavon’s dams had to be opened up cause the lake level was getting too high after the past weekend of rain.
I recently worked at the Hilton in Rockwall, haven’t been there since my Cav Ball in December. Last time, all the docks were sitting in a bunch of mud and dirt. This time? Fully floating and as above, dam opened.
Maybe we should learn how to write our articles to be factual, instead of making stupid claims that can’t be backed up. (Directed at the author, of course!) If this is the greatest water crisis in our history, why are the only people noticing the ones living farther west? And how is this more of a crisis than the early 1900s? Last I checked, CA produces a bit of vegetation, and a bunch of specialty stuff like avocados and almonds. It’s the middle of the country that produces the staples that people actually need to survive.
MAD MAX! Cali. style!
Seriously though, people in the SW, are going to have to do some serious soul searching.
Since leftists insist that human behavior and economic policies impact climate change, I have postulated the following theory that has been empirically proven true and as such is settled science:
Whereas, the left coast region — especially Oregon and Kalifornia — is experiencing massive drought conditions despite having an abundance of water known as the Pacific Ocean to its immediate west;
Whereas, these states have been dominated by loony leftist econazis for decades and have therefore adopted policies that mismanage water and dump millions of gallons of fresh water into the Pacific Ocean each year;
Whereas, Oklahoma and Texas have experienced above normal rainfall this winter and spring such that all major lakes which had become dangerously low are now overfilled above normal levels;
Whereas, Oklahoma and Texas have conservative government that protects the environment from polluters but also protects the economic and private property environment from ecofascists;
It is hereby resolved and irrefutably proven that leftist political and environmental policies harm the environment.
The above analysis is at least as scientifically sound — if not more so — as the anthropogenic/CO2 based climate change hysteria propagated by the likes of algore and Obama.
“The vitriol one sees from red states regarding this on FR is amazing to me.”
I appreciate what you say. I was born in California in 1940, and save a couple of years where my mother and I moved to Utah to live with my fathers relatives while he was in Australia serving in the US Navy, I’ve been here all my life. And I can tell you that I consider it my life’s greatest positive experience to have been able to grow up here in the 1950’s and 60’s. California was ( and in many respects still is) an amazing place. Unfortunately WWII brought us the seeds of our current destruction, in the form of workers for the war materiel producers. When the war ended, they stayed and formed the nucleus of the welfare recipients since the jobs for which they came went away and there really wasn’t anything for them to do. But hey, California is such a nice place, why go back to the South where the weather is the $hits, right. We had a guest worker program for Mexican nationals to come here and work in agriculture, which was then our biggest business. But the Feds stopped that which started the illegal migration because the state’s needs and the Mexican workers needs were still there. So our demise has been at the collective hands of the Federal Government, a state government becoming the exclusive province of the RATS, and the steady influx of trash from south of the border.
To those “red state pontiffs,” I would say the following: If you don’t like what’s been happening here in California, I’d suggest you start looking around your own nest for the same seeds that were sowed here a generation or more ago. Further, you had better hope that somehow we recover from our current problems, because what has happened here is spreading and you can’t continue to move away from the problem. So rather than sitting there “clucking” about how California should drop into the Pacific, you had better hope we don’t, because Nevada will be next, and so on.
The supply of water never changes, it is constantly recycled and redistributed all by Mother Nature.
We, the human race, are not firing off millions of full water tankers into outer space, nor is Mother Nature.
Of all the so-called "greenhouse gases" the biggest player by far is water vapor.
The human body is made up of something like 97% water. When the body dies the water goes somewhere other than either heaven or hell. You know, "dust to dust."
About 75% of the earth's surface is covered by water. If AGW is causing a rise in the ocean levels, isn't that good? More ocean = more evaporation = more rain etc. etc. etc.
What frightens me most is when liberals finish redistributing our wealth and income they will have to satisfy their cravings by redistributing water.
When things get really bad people might come to the conclusion they should move to where the water is. Animals have done that naturally throughout recorded history.
End of vent
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