Thunderstorms, tornadoes, a possible derecho for Midwest

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geQeFOzzQrA]Roswell, NM Supercell Time Lapse 6 7 2014 - YouTube[/ame]

Spaceship hits Roswell, NM? :giggle:
 
Barbaro said:
It's normal. California has a long geological history of thousands of years of drought. Tree rings and live trees by the lakes in California had proved the geological history of drought.

The problem is that builders and developers had ignored soil scientists, geologists, agronomists, and geological history for years by keep building more houses and buildings and planted grasses and gardens instead that don't belong in desert in California.

If it were not for semi-desert climate, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley to attract people to come to California, then there'd be water problems. California population had increased, but the water storage systems hadn't.

My dad is a retired soil scientist and agronomist with Soil Conversation Service in California, and knows California geological history, and crops well. He had warned everyone so many times that water storage systems must be built, but environmentalists and their campaigns managed to prevent new water storage systems.
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Not surprised, it is expensive to live in California but you will find a lot of cheaper housing in Alabama.
 
I'm inclined to believe the housing is affordable in Alabama, but Alabama doesn't have California population. I live in Texas, and we have CA, OR and WA expats invasion here. Unfortunately, the water crisis here is bad. I have CA business license over there. California taxes have been increased like crazy. Had to increase my prices.

Still, my personal opinion is we need California for scientific reasons. Volcanic soils in the Western US states, and Hawaii that are so vital to the agriculture. They're right next to the famous Ring of Fire. California is one of the major agriculture exporters in the world. Italy, Greece, Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, Chile, Ecuador and other countries are famous for beauty and agriculture- they all have one thing in common: volcanic soils. They contain rich nutrients and chemicals that play a role in agriculture and plants.

One major problem can damage the agriculture world in California is notoriously semi-desert climate. Many people in California don't realize they live in a desert.

I remember long time ago Palm Springs in the Coachelle Valley used to be a small desert town. Boom. There are many golf courses and lawns all over Palm Springs now. The Coachella Valley sits on one of the largest aquifers in the US. All that water use the aquifer is currently subsiding. As water level have fallen, the ground has sunk in some areas, and damaged homes, and streets and swimming pools. It's bad..

I think the CA government should have expand water storage systems only for agriculture or otherwise it lead to the loss of farms and ranches. It's already starting years ago. Nearly all of dams and reservoirs are built in California between 1890s to late 1990s. San Diego had been focusing on the emergency storage water projects. San Diego region's the recent one dam and reservoir was finally built for the first time in 50 years.
 
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