Posted on 11/17/2011 11:38:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Thank you President-Elect Rick Perry!
Sounds like you Texans didn’t negotiate a good deal. Another reason to avoid Perry.
Well, that deal was cut in 1846, then re-negotiated in 1865, so not a lot Perry could do about it.
The Basis of Rick Perry's Middle East Policy: It's Not Oil, It's Water......................."Begun back in the mid-'80s, the Texas-Israel Exchange has experimented with a variety of technologies to try to squeeze the maximum possible water from dry land, and to make the most out of what does exist at the surface. One early $50,000 grant under TIE, as it's known, studied whether some plants could be watered with salt water. (It worked for Blackfoot daises; on velvet sage, not so much.) Drought-resistant Israeli grains were cultivated for their genetic material so that they might be tried in Texas. One major effort involved using drip irrigation to grow rice, rather than the water-hogging flood irrigation method in more general use. The Lower Colorado River Authority and the Tel Aviv-based firm Netafim partnered on the project; proponents say it can grow the same amount of rice with half the water. Then there are projects focused on water reclamation -- that it, using treated waste water, including sewage, to irrigate, cool, or in manufacturing processes. For both sea-adjacent lands, desalination through either evaporation or forcing the salt water through a permeable membrane is seen to have potential. Texas has its eyes on its 350 miles of coast along the Gulf of Mexico, and what it says is 2.7 billion acre-feet of brackish groundwater. In 2002, Perry, then governor ordered the Texas Water Development Board to explore whether the state might build a large-scale desalination plant that might produce for Texans a supply of fresh drinking water."...........................
I'm doing fine. 20 something more working days until retirement. We are having Thanksgiving at our house again. Right now, it is a mess. The filler valve on the clothes washer stuck open and flooded the laundry room, kitchen and part of the living / dining room. About half the floor had to be pulled up, and the style has been discontinued. So we now have a wood / concrete floor.
Loop 360 was originally intended to be part of a continuous loop around Austin without stoplights. BUT, thanks to the [insert favorite four letter here] tree huggers and other environmentalists, it is nothing but a rush hour parking lot.
Where are we all going to go?
I'm keeping my options open as I can work pretty much anywhere in my career field. I have absolutely no trust or respect of city officials when it comes to pretty much anything, and I'm sure that they will lie to us about water issues until its too late and then Government does what it does best and punishes and torments its subjects.
Leander and Cedar Park were once on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's hit list for cities that would run out of water within 180 days. But the city managers complained and said that there was a "miscommunication" that caused them to be on the list. OK, I can accept that - those are other specialties of Government: spreading FUD and incompetence at every level. But then Cedar Park City Manager says something truly stupid "We are not going to run out of water in six months, or at any point in the future". Really? With water levels in Lake Travis now at its 2nd lowest point since the record set in '51, another twenty or so foot drop will make their new intakes rather useless and this year we drained well over forty feet of lake level. This drought is expected to go for at least another year, and the Travis Lake basin is such where it can easily go dry without substantial rain.
So Austin and the central Texas water commissions are telling us that Government knows best and they will manage the water like these geniuses in Plano who emptied a water tank because some clod couldn't figure out a paint schedule or recognize that we are in an unprecedented drought. Looks really good to the public suffering under State III restrictions when the city that threatens to fine and jail violators pours hundreds of thousands of gallons of treated water into the streets.
With a zero responsibility government like ours, we are doomed. Maybe North Carolina's Golden Triangle will be a nice place to work for a couple years. Maybe since we poured literally billions of dollars into Afghanistan to build up their reservoirs, dams and water distribution systems - I can get a gig in Kabul for a couple years - the climate is about the same there as here and I was pretty comfortable there last time.
Do you suppose that "tricky little washer Fairy" is at large again? The same thing happened here with the dishwasher as well as the washing machine went democratic the same day. The latter is fixed but the former had to be replaced...one small problem, the new one doesn't fit...brilliant heads pressed together at this moment looking for a solution...seller has the money and no machine that fits...guests start arriving this weekend, table will be loaded Turkey day...bright spot, turkey in back refrigerator thawing slowly..I hope*~*.....Perry, Cain, Newt are getting the vetting Obama never did...sifting through the spin and bias is a full time job. Hey, at least the floors are clean...........*~*
Our washer was over 20 years old, and the dish washer is the original that was put in the house 30+ years ago. We bit the bullet and replaced both.
Sounds like you're woefully uninformed. Another reason to laugh at you.
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