SYSTEM:
Please welcome Angel who just joined the chat.
Angel:
Good morning
SYSTEM:
Please welcome ProducerBadBob who just joined the chat.
ProducerBadBob:
Hello Angel
SYSTEM:
Please welcome Joe who just joined the chat.
Joe:
so much smoke, do we have a wildfire?
Angel:
Carl did you read the article in the Washington Times about the Marine Corp considering lowering the combat standards for women?
Angel:
Good morning Joe & Bad Bob
Angel:
I haven't heard if there is a fire, there is a big one down south
Angel:
article on lowering the standards
Angel:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/19/marine-corps-weighs-lower-standards-for-women-afte/#ixzz3XqvHYomX
ProducerBadBob:
There are a number of Rx burns
ProducerBadBob:
fuels reduction.
Angel:
Thanks Bad Bob was in search of news
SYSTEM:
Please welcome Onion_grower who just joined the chat.
Carl:
Almonds and water use--lots of fire there
Onion_grower:
Shasta is 60% of capacity. 71% of average for this date. Peak is usually about May 1. We are in better shape than the SJ valley. Humbolt county is still a rain forest, with more rain than it can handle. It all goes out to sea.
Onion_grower:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/resDetailOrig.action?resid=SHA
Angel:
Good morning onion
Onion_grower:
Snowpack in British Columbia is near 100% of normal. The jet stream is taking storms up to BC, to the Canadian praries and into the midwest. The midwest is having bumper crops of corn and soybeans with all that rain.
Angel:
The problem Carl is not the farmers, it is the enviromentalists and their policies in this state, frankly it is coming down to people vs smelt
Onion_grower:
Goog morning Angel and all.
Onion_grower:
My point: the rain doesn't disappear from the planet. It moves. From tree ring studies, the West is subject to droughts which can last decades. Ag can adapt by moving from the SJ valley. It should only grow crops which have to be grown there like Almonds.
Angel:
Time to run, have a great day
ProducerBadBob:
see you@
ProducerBadBob:
see you!
Joe:
what percent of our economy is from agriculture and that 'wasted' almond water?
SYSTEM:
Please welcome Sungold who just joined the chat.
Sungold:
Good Morning
Joe:
80% of GROUNDWATER.
Sungold:
I hear different about the rain water. I have heard it is OK to collect rainwater for use. After all, swimming pools collect the water and no one says anything about that.
Joe:
they drilled wells, that is not about stored or rainfall water
Sungold:
We also collect it from our downspouts and keep a 275 gallon container filled
Sungold:
Some builders are encouraging cisterns in new homes for collecting gray water and another for rainwater runoff
Joe:
Nuclear on the coast to energize our failing grid, and the power can also run the desal plants for the large cities in the socal desert
Joe:
DE-SAL-IN-A-TION
SYSTEM:
Please welcome CoachBob who just joined the chat.
CoachBob:
Rocky doesn't always use the best judgement
CoachBob:
Yep, let the council be the first to go down the thing
SYSTEM:
Please welcome sflow who just joined the chat.
sflow:
its just another tourist trap!!