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(47,497 posts)
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:57 PM Oct 2019

To our friends in California

Hope all of you are safe and sound.

The fires are hard to watch. Even harder is all the rain in the South and the Midwest.

Some day, maybe, we will build an infrastructure of trenches, pipes and aqueducts to be able to move water from one part of the country to another.

Thinking of you.


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To our friends in California (Original Post) question everything Oct 2019 OP
I would support water pipelines from the Great Lakes.... ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2019 #1
The Great Lakes are always in danger of lower water level question everything Oct 2019 #3
Be safe everyone bdamomma Oct 2019 #2
We need many snow storms in the mountains. wasupaloopa Oct 2019 #4
We need buried transmission lines Auggie Oct 2019 #5
The whole nation locks Oct 2019 #6

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
1. I would support water pipelines from the Great Lakes....
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:00 PM
Oct 2019

To the arid western states. THAT is infrastructure we need that would create jobs thatv have little if any environmental impact. Some spilt water versus oil. Think aboutvit.

question everything

(47,497 posts)
3. The Great Lakes are always in danger of lower water level
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:12 PM
Oct 2019

in years of drought.

But the Southeast and part of the Midwest have had major floods in past years. Such infrastructure will have to be carefully negotiated so a spigot is not just turned on.

I think that there is some arrangement between GA and FL but a few years ago there was a dispute about FL taking too much from the reservoir in GA.

locks

(2,012 posts)
6. The whole nation
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 09:02 PM
Oct 2019

is so sad for you, Californians, your beautiful state. and hoping with all our hearts the winds will die down and the nation will follow our young people and all the scientists and environmentalists working on climate change. That is, of course, all except our president and his lackeys who do not care if the whole planet burns up.

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