Re: Weather
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 5:59 pm
I dont pray....but I am doing Raindances up here to the NE of you. Its been a long time (like maybe once in last 90 days) since we got some recordable precip.
That is serious bullshit. Few things make me madderousdahl wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 4:39 pm The radio said driest soil here since 1893.
Driving up a forest road scouting some fishing spots, I came across an open flame campfire still burning. Stopped and doused it out walking back and forth from the stream with a Gatorade bottle.
There’s a special place in hell...
Off the top of my head, I think Vegas at least has it a little more figured out than most southwestern cities, as far as water conservation goes.shindig wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 2:28 pm https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html
Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.
I've mentioned this in other threads - it's intensely depressing to fly into Vegas/Phoenix/Palm Springs/etc. and see clusters of 18-36 emerald green patches in a sea of browns and yellows.ousdahl wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:35 amOff the top of my head, I think Vegas at least has it a little more figured out than most southwestern cities, as far as water conservation goes.shindig wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 2:28 pm https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html
Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.
Denver and the front range are the ones right now who are pumping Colorado River water from the western slope, over/through an entire mountain range, across the continental divide to the eastern slope, so that residents can have their suburban lawns and play golf, and so rural eastern CO farmers can grow beets.
It’s impractical and unsustainable to be growing beets in an otherwise arid high prairie/desert landscape, but New Deal era handouts provide the subsidies, and the water rights, to keep doing it. And those farmers will be damned before they give up their way of life about it now.
Cuz that’s suuuch a fulfilling an exciting way of life, too. Growing beets. In the bumfuck eastern CO desert. Woo. Calm down you guys.
makes me think about almonds in caliousdahl wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:35 amOff the top of my head, I think Vegas at least has it a little more figured out than most southwestern cities, as far as water conservation goes.shindig wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 2:28 pm https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html
Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.
Denver and the front range are the ones right now who are pumping Colorado River water from the western slope, over/through an entire mountain range, across the continental divide to the eastern slope, so that residents can have their suburban lawns and play golf, and so rural eastern CO farmers can grow beets.
It’s impractical and unsustainable to be growing beets in an otherwise arid high prairie/desert landscape, but New Deal era handouts provide the subsidies, and the water rights, to keep doing it. And those farmers will be damned before they give up their way of life about it now.
Cuz that’s suuuch a fulfilling an exciting way of life, too. Growing beets. In the bumfuck eastern CO desert. Woo. Calm down you guys.
^^^^^^jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:01 amI've mentioned this in other threads - it's intensely depressing to fly into Vegas/Phoenix/Palm Springs/etc. and see clusters of 18-36 emerald green patches in a sea of browns and yellows.ousdahl wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:35 amOff the top of my head, I think Vegas at least has it a little more figured out than most southwestern cities, as far as water conservation goes.shindig wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 2:28 pm https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html
Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.
Denver and the front range are the ones right now who are pumping Colorado River water from the western slope, over/through an entire mountain range, across the continental divide to the eastern slope, so that residents can have their suburban lawns and play golf, and so rural eastern CO farmers can grow beets.
It’s impractical and unsustainable to be growing beets in an otherwise arid high prairie/desert landscape, but New Deal era handouts provide the subsidies, and the water rights, to keep doing it. And those farmers will be damned before they give up their way of life about it now.
Cuz that’s suuuch a fulfilling an exciting way of life, too. Growing beets. In the bumfuck eastern CO desert. Woo. Calm down you guys.