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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Thankfully,Lake Erie is more than 2000 miles from California.Too far for California to try to steal it’s water.
Deport all the illegals and the water crisis is solved.
The system so screwy. Farmers have to use their full allotment or lose it, so they grow crops that are already in surplus, like alfalfa. That drops prices, so they get federal subsidies. And then the alfalfa gets exported to China. If you add up the water locked up in the exported alfalfa, it's a hundred billion gallons a year. That's the equivalent of six months of what the DWP delivers to 4 million residents in Los Angeles. Alfalfa and almonds alone account for more than half the water use in the state every year.
Good thing we reversed all those water projects and stopped the new ones.
All those critters we were protecting can now deal with no water naturally.
Brown also gave away our river water.
Me memory goes back to 68.
The Delta Smelt is all anyone needs to know about the California drought.
Dumbasses.
Well said. Many of them think they are immune, and keep telling them that a state border isn’t going to keep them out.
Even if they put up a fence, how are they going to keep liberals out? Give them a litmus test of some kind?
This is a flat out lie. Actually, up until about 300 years ago, drought was the norm for California, including one drought that lasted more than 50 years and another that lasted 140 years (although those droughts WERE about 1000 years ago). But it has only been the past few hundred years that the amount of precipitation we grew up expecting became a routine pattern. So it appears that we are just going back to what had been the normal climate for this region.
I'm sure it was nice in the 60s. My folks grew up in Oregon in the late 50s and early 60s and they say similar things. HOWEVER, their parents were from Oklahoma. They moved west because they wanted to WORK. The overwhelming majority went west to WORK. When they got to the Garden of Eden, California had illegally and unconstitutionally set up road blocks not allowing my family in, abusing and collecting legal US citizens.
So my grandfather, a Field Artillery vet, went to Oregon and worked as a logger until he was 65. Well, except for the time he fought in Europe. Yes, he rejoined the day after Pearl Harbor. My parents, sick of the left coast, moved us back to Oklahoma when I was 10.
California has been setting ITSELF up to fail. Don't blame "Southerners" for YOUR problems (unless you mean the "Southerners" y'all let in that *aren't* citizens - make that make sense). Have you seen Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas lately? Sure, the Oklahoma economy isn't as big is yours, but ours isn't broke. So don't blame us and our culture for California's historic and continuous anti-Constitutional stupidity.
BTW, our weather is just fine. The greatest outbreak of tornados couldn't do the damage to the economy of Oklahoma what your politicians have done to yours. Oh yeah, and we have WATER here. California has and always has had a Californian problem, not a "too many Southerners" problem.
California produce sucks; rock hard machine picked peaches, tomatoes etc. Maybe we will see other parts of the country start to grow produce again, at a higher quality.
***Thanks to the worst drought in more than 1,000 years,***
worse than the twenty five year drought that drove the Anazazi from their areas in the 11 and 1200s?
http://www.learner.org/interactives/collapse/chacocanyon.html
“Why would the Anasazi leave — potentially for good — pueblos it had taken them decades to construct? Scientists have found one possible answer by looking at tree rings (a study called dendrochronology) in the Sand Canyon area.
In the period between A.D. 1125 and 1180, very little rain fell in the region. After 1180, rainfall briefly returned to normal. From 1270 to 1274 there was another long drought, followed by another period of normal rainfall. In 1275, yet another drought began. This one lasted 14 years.”
“BTW, our weather is just fine. The greatest outbreak of tornados couldn’t do the damage to the economy of Oklahoma what your politicians have done to yours. Oh yeah, and we have WATER here. California has and always has had a Californian problem, not a “too many Southerners” problem.”
Well, it’s true, when you’re over the target you start taking flak! You are exactly the kind of person to whom my comments were directed! More than any state in the union, California has been a “melting pot” much to it’s ultimate misfortune. And I guess you want to “forget” that we essentially feed the rest of you, so when you start missing fresh produce on your grocery store shelves, you will “remember” how we are all tied together, but in your case that’s a maybe.
California’s water problem is not surprising at all. The agriculture in the central valley used a steady amount of water. That has been known since the Central Valley Irrigation was completed in the 30s.
Once the moonbeams took over no new sources of storage were completely ignored while the population exploded in, what has always been, a desert. Aside from 2 dams in the past 20 years there’s been no development. The rivers were already dammed. And there are no salmon. OH WELL! So some fisherman can’t go fishing for salmon in Kerman. They have capacity but wasted it on good intentions. Hopefully this is a learning experience and California gets some conservative leaders (HAHAHA, I know I know, I’m a comedian.)
Once the rains come back, and they will, the mudslides will be spectacular. When the dams are filled they will drain them again, for the fish. And all the while we’re going to hear how the rains and high snow are all caused by global warming, I mean climate change.
This is how the Incas and Aztecs fell.
Stupid politicians were in charge at the wrong time.
I am sure they heard from people telling them to build more reservoirs.
Roll Tide
millions of Americans may be forced to find somewhere else to live.
Where is the Prophet Elijah when you need him?
You don’t feed us, but y’all sure love our oil and gas and electricity. Not that you don’t have any. Your idiot politicians just won’t let you develop it.
When we were down, y’all posted guards at the border to keep your fellow citizens out. Then you let Mexicans enter illegally, giving them free checks and free rides, and in your first post you had the audacity to blame Southerners for YOUR crap! Now that you can’t pay for it, “we’re all tied together.” We’ll always be able to get your fruits and nuts. We have the energy you need. We actually grow a great deal of wheat, corn, beef and chicken (and ship it to your hole). We can get fruits and nuts from Texas and South America.
So as long as you need us to bail you out, it’s kumbaya, mah Lord, we’re in it together. When we need help, it’s Okie and Arkie jokes, work camps and beatings. How about you sit in the nest you messed in and we’ll keep what we’ve WORKED for.
You want to blame Southerners for California’s problems? Then why, pray tell, are we banking while you go bankrupt? You’ll probably be crying like a baby for income “redistribution” among the states next.
Is the sarcophagus still there? It was so weird driving by that place.
I have cousins who spent their childhood in California and then moved to Arkansas. They’ve come out quite a bit for visits so they’ve seen slowly what has happened to California. They are now looking at the areas they live in and are seeing the same thing slowly happen there.
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