Climate and Weather

I'm not the defender of the high speed rail project, but the EU and Japan seem to love theirs. Can't we do both desalination and rail, assuming the funding sources make sense?
If California needs a high speed rail, it sure as hell doesnt need it to go to bakersfield.
 
In my lifetime, I have noticed a pattern of three to five years of drought, followed by one to three years of above average rainfall.
This pattern is not set in stone, it is just an overall guideline of what I generally expect.
I expected the rain to come last year, but much like in 83, it came at the tail end of the El Nino this time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwiR4bvU1tPRAhWrrlQKHbPmBFEQFggbMAA&url=http://patrol.mammothmountain.com/RptPage.aspx?Rpt=1&Range=0&GrpBy=0&RptRender=False&Location=SS_MI&usg=AFQjCNGIjVKCvVyQhn79cY3CpeuJFI7xuA&bvm=bv.144224172,d.cGw
 
Its where the greatest country music on earth was born, but that "lonesome whistle blow'n" was old timey, slow speed rail.
I was stationed in Lemoore for a bit. Thereʻs a reason why the Navy placed their Hornetʻs nest out there. Itʻs not because of population density thatʻs for sure. My engineering background says that a 4k rider per sq. mile makes the rail successful. No go otherwise
 
We just finished a deal plant down here, expensive water . . . of course they are pushing toilet to tap, but only for the residents south of highway 94.

Most of Southern Cal already has toilet to tap, but people don't want recognize what has been flushed down the Colorado River.
 
In my lifetime, I have noticed a pattern of three to five years of drought, followed by one to three years of above average rainfall.
This pattern is not set in stone, it is just an overall guideline of what I generally expect.
I expected the rain to come last year, but much like in 83, it came at the tail end of the El Nino this time.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwiR4bvU1tPRAhWrrlQKHbPmBFEQFggbMAA&url=http://patrol.mammothmountain.com/RptPage.aspx?Rpt=1&Range=0&GrpBy=0&RptRender=False&Location=SS_MI&usg=AFQjCNGIjVKCvVyQhn79cY3CpeuJFI7xuA&bvm=bv.144224172,d.cGw

Last year was a little below average rain and snowpack. It would have been seen as a normal year if it were not at the end of a multi-year drought. This year is turning out to be way above average if the weather continues beyond this week. What we were missing during the drought winters were the Gulf of Alaska storms running northwest to southeast big enough to drench the whole state for a few days at a time and more than once a year. Instead we had a weather pattern that looked like a roadblock sitting off the coast steering all the good wet storms north and south of us. This winter we have had storms alternating from the northwest (as in typical winters) and southwest (as in El Nino winters). Right now the satellite pictures show all kinds of interesting stuff heading our way.

http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hurricane/PacificSatellite.aspx?animate=true
 
California, and specifically, southern california is made up of mostly arid and semi-arid regions.
The water has to be delivered, and has been, in the past, through monumental engineering, and visionary ways.
The population has doubled in the last forty years, yet we still rely largely, on a 70 year old aquaduct system.
Anyone who has lived here for any length of time and is somewhat educated (or just pays attention) on the climate patterns, understands that we have a pattern of "droughts", followed by short bursts of precipitation.
Desalination is the obvious answer.
Either that, or half of those people who moved out here need to go back to where they came from.
Instead of building oil pipelines why not water pipelines?
 
Because you need oil to make, transport, install, power pumps to move water through water pipes and maintain those pipes. Did I miss anything?
Yes, that some regions have more water than they need and out here we have less. So pipeline it out here . . . oh wait, you didn't want an answer, you were just trying to be a wise-cracker like usual, never mind, as you were.
 
Instead of building oil pipelines why not water pipelines?
Because you need oil to make, transport, install, power pumps to move water through water pipes and maintain those pipes. Did I miss anything?
Yes, that some regions have more water than they need and out here we have less. So pipeline it out here . . . oh wait, you didn't want an answer, you were just trying to be a wise-cracker like usual, never mind, as you were.
Were your water pipelines going to magically appear?
 
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