Re: Fresh snow


<helensilverburg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1172932016.804010.219630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 3, 2:48 am, "Graham Fountain" <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Draco" <JPD...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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>Both of you can keep all that cold stuff up there above the border.
>Here in the mid-atlantic region we still have snow piles and now up to
>two inches of rain. We'll see how much flood waters we'll have by
>tomorrow.

You can send some of your rain, ice - anything, our way. almost 6PM here,
with the sun just setting, and it's still 31C (90 something in the old
scale). Hasn't rained in months. The 3 dams that our city relies on are
sitting on about 16% capacity. We are already on level 5 water
restrictions - which means no outside use of water at all, only internal
domestic use. Talk is that level 6 will be introduced within a month or
2 -the officials are still trying to determine what level 6 will be, as it's
never been implemented. Possibly restrictions on the number of times you can
flush the toilet, bans on dishwashers and clothes washing machines (back to
handwashing etc). Unless we get decent rain, we'll be dry by the end of the
year. So please, Ice, Snow, Rain - if you don't want it, send it down our
way.

Believe me Graham, if there were a way I would be very happy to
oblige.
Man, it must be dry as a bone where you are.
Yeah, things are pretty bad. It probably didn't make the news over there, but our city made big news in Australia, because the city council proposed a water recycling scheme - basically the water reclaimed from sewage was to be treated through a reverse osmosis system and reused to supplement the city water supply. For some reason it had to go to a vote last year, where it was overturned 62-38%. The state govt has just announced that brisbane will be getting recycled water, and decided that without a referendum, so they'll probably do a similar thing for us. Unfortunately time is running short - it is doubtful such a system will be built before the dams run dry. The north of the state however has had record rainfall and floods - there is talk of a pipeline from north queensland down to the south-east, but of course cost of a pipeline capable of shifting a few ML of water per day a distance of roughly 1200 miles would be very expensive.
The local media etc all put this extreme drought down to a case of climate change but I'm not so sure. There are many indicators in the natural environment, that this area naturally has very long periods of drought. Much of the area is naturally a tree-less plain, despite the soils and (in human history) there being good rainfall. Indeed there are more trees around here now than there were when the area was first settled by whites. There are very few indicators that the area was significantly populated by aborigines, and the ones that were here were nomadic. I personally think the are has natural cycles of high rainfall followed by exceptionally low rainfall. In previous human history we have enjoyed the high rainfall, and now we are facing the low.
Enough of my rantings though - a day off work today, so I should get out and take some photographs!
Helen


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