We'd take ALL your extra floodwaters, Texas. AND Oklahoma. I'd drive a tanker truck from here to there if I could.

from out here in Central California. And we're wonderin' what with ALL those contaminant pipelines that run all over the place..... WHERE is the public works project to build cross-continental canals to provide relief WHERE the rain comes down and WHERE it doesn't???
Colonize Mars - yeah that sounds like a cure-all!

On top of the massive amount of pipeline to be built (WAAAAAY bigger than Keystone XL, or virtually any pipeline ever built, for that matter), all we'd need is a few dozen new nuclear reactors, operating at max capacity, to get past the MILE of elevation between Texas and California. Should only cost a trillion dollars, is all.

Child's play

the USA I grew up in prided itself with it's pioneering spirit when it came to engineering challenges. We beat back the Axis powers after being attacked while we snoozed. We summoned our collective brain-power and landed living people on the Moon - only 66 years after the first powered airplane took flight - and both those American achievements were conceived (as was our canal thru Panama) before the age of computers arrived. And let's not forget the robots we have exploring foreign worlds in our solar system.

Saying that we can't figure out how to move water around for the public good sounds like a conservative conclusion. And of course - which natural disaster areas would have to be skimmed to pay for whatever it would cost to pursue such folly? Probably better we just hold pat and wait for the Rapture to play out and save those worth saving, from ourselves.

Just because we pride ourselves on our pioneering spirit doesn't mean any and all dreams can be made real. Some things are simply outside of our abilities, even in the 21st century.

But like I said earlier, theoretically it COULD be done. We actually do have the technology to move water like you want.

It would only take a few trillion dollars, a boatload of new electrical generation, and decades of work to accomplish. And the end result would be water so expensive no one could afford to buy it. It would probably be cheaper (but still entirely unrealistic) to line the coast of California with desalination plants and pipe water inland.

And beyond that, the reality of climate change means that these monsoon-type events won't be a regular event, but rather part of the mix of incredibly unstable, unpredictable weather climatologists have told us to expect. Two years from now, Texas could be back in drought conditions, and flooding might be hitting Alabama, or Minnesota, or Florida. For a water-transport pipeline to function, you'd need to criss-cross a good portion of North America to ensure you'll have access to excess water on any given year.

Getting a few men to the Moon and back was child's play compared to such an endeavor.

....with the technological savvy we have to determine such - at this point in time. There are other absolute barriers as well. But I'll argue that we HAVE the technological prowess IN HAND to build canals and tunnel thru mountains. Hell, I live only 10 miles from the concrete viaducts that keep LA's thirst quenched - and that was done in the thirties!.

The vagaries of climate shift would only add value to such a gridwork. It would be worthless if the whole of the country were submerged or turned to desert. But then the entire country would be a giant ghost town anyway.

Just look at your pessimism - all you can offer is how we can't. That's not how this country got it's reputation for greatness. We need to talk about what we CAN DO. Power of positive thinking and all that.

Driven by a toasty spell that began on Memorial Day, last month became the second-warmest May in Philadelphia in records dating to 1874, with an average temperature of 70.1, according to the National Weather Service.

As the rains held off on Sunday afternoon, the temperature shot up to 92 at Philadelphia International Airport.

For the week, temperatures averaged almost 11 degrees above normals, but May 1991, in the clubhouse at 70.8, survived the surge to hold on to first place.

The May warmth clearly was related to the lack of rain.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/weather/Near-record-warm-May.html

It would have been the driest May on record except for heavy rains on the 30th and 31st in the state moved it from driest to third driest.

While everyone else had a warmer winter we got the deep freeze. Wonder what next year will bring.

It was all the damn snow that I hated.

...of the weather patterns we now take for granted. As one well schooled meteorologist said when ask what we can expect, his answer was: "Pick a card from the deck, you might be right"

Climate change is real! Not happy about the ocean front property we're gonna have down here in Flori-duh if this keeps up. I already live close to the water!

And we set a daily record with .03 inches.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/06/06/friday-rain-set-record-phoenix-weather/28592797/?fb_ref=Default

And now we got more coming this week!

Don't come around telling me about no climate change.

This has all been predicted by President Gore in his award winning movie "An Inconvenient Truth"