Texas may not be habitable next summer.
Texas livin’ was precarious in the ‘51-53 drought, before everybody else moved here. Where are we all going to go?
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.