Professional advice to get you through drought conditions
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Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
And apparently that day is tomorrow, when SF is expecting up to half an inch of precipitation.
The ouroboros: our energy use creates drought, so we'll eventually have to turn to desalination, which will use a monumentally greater amount of energy, which . . .
We had one day that looked like this in San Francisco last year. With our first Red Flag Warning arriving in May, wondering how many days this year.
Would it kill you to say "half-full," look on the bright side!
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“We’re looking, today, at the lowest level our reservoirs have ever been since they were built,” said the Sonoma Water pessimist. Look at it this way: it's the highest they're gonna be for a long time!
California reservoirs are at 50%. Brush plants statewide are parched to tinder. One of the driest periods in California history.
Californians: *hosing down the sidewalk*
In the second-driest two-year period in California history, I wonder what all the pandemic handwashing has done to reservoir levels.
Not funny thread:
I think it's important to think beyond the corrupting influence of industry on GOP climate response.
If we accept the grand, terrible scope, we must accept that it is not solvable at the level of personal virtue and choices, but must be addressed in a large-scale, governmentally-directed way. It requires a complex and invasive regulatory scheme.