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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
This draught is worse than you think
2022-06-17
[Peak Prosperity] We were foolish enough to believe we could water the entire southwestern U.S. with the Colorado River. Nothing could go wrong. Now it has, and tens of millions of people are staring down the barrel of real trouble.

As much as 75% of the water from Lake Mead (fed by the Colorado River) goes to agriculture...so now we have a potential food production problem. Major cities like Las Vegas depend on that water for its citizens...now we have a potential personal survival problem for local residents.

More than 40 million people in seven states need to decide how they go on living if the rains do not return. Is anyone worried? Is there an emergency management team in place? Doesn’t seem that way if you review the local news there.

Are they prepared? No. Maybe 3% of the population has anything in place for survival. What do they do? Where do they go?

Is Kansas ready for an influx of evacuees from California? Can the East Coast handle another few million people?

Watch this important video.
Posted by:Besoeker

#22  tank Abrams is fiction. I have to listen to this goddamn bitch daily on her ads with her resume. Can't stand the sound of he voice and hopes she drops dead of whatever hurts the most. I'll let y'all know how this Georgian feels later about that fat whore.
Posted by: Chris   2022-06-17 15:58  

#21  remember the Great California Drought emergency orders

"If it's yellow, let it mellow.
If it's brown, flush it down."
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-06-17 14:36  

#20  A drought, or just CA weather? Meanwhile, CA continues to dismantle reservoirs and even denies permits for desalinization facilities. It's not the rainfall.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-06-17 14:12  

#19  That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-06-17 12:52  

#18  ^ Tank Abrams said last week the Bible is a fiction thriller.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-17 12:33  

#17  "The Bible is myth and fantasy! Throw it away and experience the visceral life in Sodom-on-California."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-06-17 12:32  

#16  "Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance. 35 Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and let them guard it. 36 Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.”

We're a bit short of three wise men or a virgin in the Beltway.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-06-17 11:54  

#15  And this will add to the "demand inflation" if crops fail or are hard to come by. It's not the Fed, and it sure as hell isn't Putin (a pathetic and absurd concept). People discount the vicissitudes of Mother Nature.
Maybe the Harris-Biden Administration will begin to blame the climate for these problems. Oh, wait....
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-06-17 10:52  

#14  *slightly off topic, saw estimates that possibly up to 10,000 head died from that heat shock. Officials say the cause of death is Big Meat making Record Profits™. Everyone is flailing a bit, so salt to taste.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-06-17 10:43  

#13  "Climate change" is religion for people who don't believe in God. And for some people who think they believe in God, but swallow whatever their clerisy tells them.

Reality is the thing that does not go away just because you don't believe in it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-17 10:37  

#12  Anybody think of Climate Change"?

Can "Climate Change" override human stupidity?
Posted by: Bobby   2022-06-17 10:31  

#11  Nah, Lawrence Kansas, they love them some refugee shit. Even have an official homeless camp just north of town, follow the train tracks east. Downtown panhandling program, hots and a cot, Berkely-on-Kaw so they say.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-06-17 10:25  

#10  Is Kansas ready for an influx of evacuees from California?

Something, something, garden hoses with gasoline.

We don't have the water either, unless you can convince the Denver area to give up green lawns and golf. I'd suggest the Panuco Basin, or Seattle/Vancouver area...I understand they have something called a CHAD district, very youthful, very urbane. Ashland Oregon is supposed to be very progressive, I'm sure they would welcome all the Joad family with open arms. Otherwise, keep'em moving until at least Kansas City.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-06-17 10:24  

#9  The libs still living in Cali are only there because of things they disagree with and could not duplicate for themselves, ever. Reality will take hold of the land if not the people.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-17 10:14  

#8  Sad about the Anasazi, not so much for most of the populace there now imo.
Posted by: Chris   2022-06-17 10:11  

#7  The southwest was a lot wetter 750 years ago, then got hit with a huge drought some 500 years ago that lasted 75-100 years. Completely destroyed the Anasazi civilization as they couldn't grow enough food. It has happened in the past and will happen in the future if it isn't happening right now.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-06-17 09:35  

#6  ^ not enough water in the US to clean those sidewalks...
Posted by: Warthog   2022-06-17 09:01  

#5  Is there still enough water to hose off the sidewalks in SF?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-17 08:57  

#4  Oh well, you live in a desert deal with it.
Posted by: Chris   2022-06-17 08:55  

#3  
Those of us old enough remember the Great California Drought emergency orders issued between 1988 and 1990.

The incoming water was diverted to from the food growing Valley, to many LA and its many swimming pools.

California in the last 100 years has experienced many droughts: 1924, 1928–1935, 1947–1950, 1959–1960, 1976–1977, 1986–1992, 2006–2010, 2011–2017, 2018 and 2020-2021. So it's not like California only occasionally has a Drought.

Hell, just 40+/- days ago (May 12, 2022) despite being in a declared drought already. The California Coastal Commission rejected a proposal to build a $1.4 billion seawater desalination plant to turn ocean water into drinking water.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-06-17 05:11  

#2  "...now we have a potential personal survival problem for local residents."

Not to mention a really bad base of thee 'BO'...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2022-06-17 04:27  

#1  Oh? I thought this was about really bad beer...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2022-06-17 04:23  

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