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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
San Antonio and this part of the country is in the worst drought in 50 years. The temperature seesaws from day to day -- it goes up and down more than a two-dollar hooker. I'm not even sure how much of my backyard is dormant and what is dead. What's the point of spreading seeds -- we're in stage one water restrictions, and have been for almost a year.
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Sounds like you'd love it here in southern Arizona, Paul!
Here's an idea for our new president. It's got a definite New Deal flavor. It would be expensive in the near term but it would create lots and lots of jobs for the next decade or so and, over the long run, it would save billions in federal disaster relief spending.
Build a system of resevoirs and pipelines to siphon floodwaters from states getting battered with above average rains and overspilling rivers to the states that are suffering from droughts. In other words, take surplus fresh water from one area and pump it to areas with water shortages.
It just blows me away how some regions (like the Dakotas, ATM) are being drowned while other regions (like many parts of the south) are suffering through their umpteenth year of drought conditions. Maybe it's so simple, no one has thought of it.
And, Paul, you'll have to explain that hooker analogy 'cause I just don't get it.