Omg Breaking News!!!!!

[NancyDz]

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Been raining here since about 4am and the winds caused my power to go out @7:30 so I had to go to the doc without a shower ... luckily everyone looked like a wet rat so I fit right in.

I'm sure we have had 3" already.... my dogs will barely step out to pee.... might get a paw wet or something....

Remember Deb... you are in the desert

 

[debilorrah]

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Been raining here since about 4am and the winds caused my power to go out @7:30 so I had to go to the doc without a shower ... luckily everyone looked like a wet rat so I fit right in.

I'm sure we have had 3" already.... my dogs will barely step out to pee.... might get a paw wet or something....

Remember Deb... you are in the desert

Yes I am - in the SOUTHERN portion. One would think that storm would not skirt us. I am gasping here!!!!

 

[foweler]

At the risk of sounding selfish, I was hoping that more storage in Nor Cal would result in our reservoirs not being drawn down to extreme lows as we ship water south.

The energy problem for desalination could be addressed with a (here comes the n word) dedicated nuclear power plant feeding each one. Other countries have accepted modern nuclear power as a viable option, why shouldn't we?

I did hear the other day of new techniques in desalination using natural pressure and running it through twice that reduce the energy input necessary.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Our water table is at 10 ft under my house. Even with 2 months of no rain last year it never went lower than 20' in our well.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Nukes are a good option.

Conservation is a good one too and I'm not talking about letting the water run while brushing your teeth. I know of waste water plants out here that waste 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day just because they don't have the budget to stop leaks.

 

[foweler]

OK, start a pipeline from Purple's well to So Cal.

 

[NancyDz]

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That wildfire came pretty darned close to our house and displaced several friends.

As a footnote that wild fire is still just 90% contained.

My point is....it is always OMG something in CA..
Its almost like nothing ever happens in the rest of the US.
Over dramatisation

Well it is pretty serious when you have a wildfire that gets rid of all the foliage and then you have heavy rains as that bare burnt ground turns into MAJOR flooding as there is nothing to stop the water or absorb it. Last night on the news they were telling people to get sandbags ready especially in the areas of the burn. One issue creates another .


And besides.. that just keeps more people from moving to our beautiful state.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Thermal solar can't be a bad option either for evaporation type facilities in the desert.

 

[debilorrah]

Not selfish Foweler! We get our water from the Mammoth area and most of it goes down the aquaduct right to LA. Strange how that works.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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It ain't that good. My pump is only 3/4 HP and feeds 6 families.