150 years ago......

[Duchess]

Woof

[Clang McFly]

MEOW.

[Maggot]

Just think Clangy ole boy, if you lived in Cali ...........no more showers!!!

[Clang McFly]

Just think Clangy ole boy, if you lived in Cali ...........no more showers!!!

What a nightmare. Heat plus sweat plus a day or two equals gross. I only skimped on the showers this winter because our furnace broke and the house was literally too cold(even with a space heater in the bedroom) to even consider taking a shower most days. I usually lasted a week or less though before I broke down and braved the cold to take a shower.

[Donovan]

On the plus side, the last time California had a drought of this proportion, back in 77, they emptied all the swimming pools and invented extreme skateboarding.

[Maggot]

Yeah tru-dat

[Blindgreed1]

On this day, ⁴⁄₉ 150 years ago Lee surrendered to Grant ending the civil war.

[Maggot]

Global warming is the cause of this golf course in the middle of the desert drying up.

[Duchess]

I believe in global warming but I don't have the oomph to be argumentative right now. I'll get back to you.

[Maggot]

With all this snow it may be tough. I believe Mars and Venus has warmed a bit over the past 50 yrs also. Its amazing.

[Blindgreed1]

Global warming is the cause of this golf course in the middle of the desert drying up.

This is a great example maggot. The pro circuit golf courses here in Az are lush green courses. How is it that the courses in the sonoran desert thrive while the California pro circuit courses are suffering? Simple. Water conservation is the law here. You can't build a golf course here unless you're going to use reclaimed water to water it. Why? BECAUSE WE LIVE IN THE FUCKING DESERT!!!

[Maggot]

Dean Kamen invented a water purifier for African poverty stricken nations. Asia uses them also, maybe California could benefit from looking east towards the sunrise and bow down before Yankee ingenuity.

[username]

I can't wait for fire season to start.



BTW, they're trying to pass a law here that you have to eliminate your wood burning fire place (put in a gas fireplace or something) before you sell your home. We never use ours but still...it irritates me that they may legislate that. We already have "spare the air" days when you can get a ticket or something for burning wood in your fireplace on that day. Sheesh.

[Duchess]

BTW, they're trying to pass a law here that you have to eliminate your wood burning fire place (put in a gas fireplace or something) before you sell your home.

Put in an insert and you'll be good to go.

I really like the smell of wood smoke. *sniff sniff* One of the first signs of fall around here.

[username]

BTW, they're trying to pass a law here that you have to eliminate your wood burning fire place (put in a gas fireplace or something) before you sell your home.

Put in an insert and you'll be good to go.

I really like the smell of wood smoke. *sniff sniff* One of the first signs of fall around here.

Yeah, if I ever get back home and back to remodeling, I was planning on changing the fireplace anyway but it still irritates me that it's being mandated.

Even living in Southern California, my dad, for about the last 5 years of his life, started a wood fire almost every morning in the fall/winter. Good memories. I can picture him in his comfy chair, reading the paper with the fire beside him.

[Jimbone]

California never ceases to amaze me. They're eventually going to legislate farts.

[Maggot]

I can't wait for fire season to start.



BTW, they're trying to pass a law here that you have to eliminate your wood burning fire place (put in a gas fireplace or something) before you sell your home. We never use ours but still...it irritates me that they may legislate that. We already have "spare the air" days when you can get a ticket or something for burning wood in your fireplace on that day. Sheesh.

That's the new EPA rules they put out this year everyone is bitching about it. Expect electric bills to climb when the coal fired plants are shut down. Today the coal plants put out ¹⁄₃ of what they once did but that's not good enough. Planes put out much of the pollution now, but you wont see them getting updated for many years, the lobbyists are working overtime to prevent it.

[Donovan]

Jimbone, part of the problem in SoCal has to do with the geography of the place, it's like this big bowl that collects all the shit they put into the air, and it just sits there on top of them and ferments into a lovely brown stew of toxins. I remember the days when we'd get smog alerts over the radio that told us whether it was safe to actually go outside and still, you know, breathe. They've gotten better I hear, but there really is no permanent solution (reference intended) for the urban sprawl that is the greater metro area. Personally I'm hoping this San Andreas movie turns out to be a documentary. I think I still own a piece of Arizona desert, and it's be nice to have a beach there.

[Duchess]

I once saw some pix from China, I think it was. The pollution was so thick it looked like heavy smoke and there were big screen monitors in place that showed a bright, sunny day. It was freakish.

[Donovan]

That's how L.A was in the 70's and 80's. It was bad.