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[vehve]

Things suddenly got awfully poetic here. Are there any calculations on how much rain you would need to get back to a good water situation?

 

[perchie.girl]

Things suddenly got awfully poetic here. Are there any calculations on how much rain you would need to get back to a good water situation?

the whole west coast up through the grand canyon needs water.... to the toon of eleven trillion gallons Yep toon

because its out of a carTOON world that we will get it.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/21/3606056/california-11-trillion-gallons-water-drought/

its been ten years in the making... and some experts say we only have one year of water left


IN the desert where my house is. Blue dot... its only a moderate drought... We are used to low rainfall.

But the central part of the state is going to die in the next year or so... even if we get 22 inches of rain every year for the next five years.

Its innumerable incalculable discourage-able....

The central part of California produces what we consume ....

Tomatoes
cotton
almonds
artichokes
garlic
onions
strawberries... no wait... San Diego produces strawberries. So we may be ok. for them.

The cotton crop may be dead any way because its grown dry. meaning only what comes from the sky... Around Mariposa California... which is in the Mojave... They depend on x amount of rain for their crop to germinate and grow...



Notice the area that is green is overlayed with the EXTREME drought on the first website.

Rain here will make life easier... the rain that is needed Is going to take a very very long time to catch up.

I have already made preparations to move my horse to Montana if I cant feed her any more.

sob

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Vehve, the pictures of Lake Mead really put this in perspective:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/water-...-the-us-drops-150-feet-in-14-yeaars-slideshow

 

[vehve]

SCG, yeah, those pics are pretty powerful... But the water level dropping 150 feet doesn't mean you need 150 feet of water. I was wondering if there were any estimates on how high a water column is needed to raise the level back to the height that is considered good.

 

[perchie.girl]

the impact of those 150 feet

Vehve, the pictures of Lake Mead really put this in perspective:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/water-...-the-us-drops-150-feet-in-14-yeaars-slideshow

Here is another...

http://wolfstreet.com/2015/05/03/wa...ow-water-rationing-california-nevada-arizona/

Look up Lake Mead.

The Colorado River fills lake mead and many others along it course. WE suck it dry before it reaches the Sea of Cortez

and before that happened it took a hundred year to get it low enoug to keep stern wheelers from reaching Yuma

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

SCG, yeah, those pics are pretty powerful... But the water level dropping 150 feet doesn't mean you need 150 feet of water. I was wondering if there were any estimates on how high a water column is needed to raise the level back to the height that is considered good.

I am estimating at least 20 years of 15 inches of water per year...

The thing is .... The paradygm.. for pro9per level... Has to chnage....

The normal level of rain fall is to be Zero.

deb

 

[dsqard]

I heard we needed something like ten inches of rain to catch up to where we should be to make up for our lack of snow last winter. Not sure if that takes us back to "normal" though. It probably would since we had a very wet winter/spring a few years back so we are not in the same severe drought conditions that Deb is in. Utah has been getting a lot of water in the last few weeks. SCG and I experienced that a bit when we were in Zion and the week after and this week we have been getting even more. Not great for flying but we do need the water. Our backyard is looking like a jungle because it hasn't been dry long enough to mow. Sid is getting lost in the grass.
Ah last day of class and I get to go home tomorrow. e

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Safe travels and I strongly recommend a horror novel while flying through turbulence due to storms.

 

[dsqard]

I have a few management/leadership books to read on the plane.

 

[tnspursfan09]

I heard a rumor that that may be making a movie based on the Pern books, so now I want to read them all again.