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Orange&White

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  1. If the only other option is to shut down the city of Phoenix or Austin or San Diego because there is simply not enough water for them to operate, the consumers can shriek all day, but they will pay the costs required.
  2. I don't feel like that is an apt comparison. The water that would be moved is flood water and there would be no cost extracting it from the ground, or paying mineral rights.
  3. This is kinda my point, along with what phd said; at some point, the cost of NOT doing it will outweigh the cost of doing it. I never claimed it would be cheap or easy, but at some point it will become necessary for places like San Diego, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Austin to survive. If you can do this with oil/NG, you can do it with water cheaper and with fewer safety requirements and public dispute. The people that need the water will eventually be forced to pay the cost of it. Just think how much impact would be felt by building a 600 starter line from Arkansas over to Central and West Texas.
  4. Couldn't you just pump from Oregon down to SoCal?
  5. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/climate/rain-drought-pipeline.html
  6. You don't have to connect every river to every river. Just connections between basins. That is the biggest obstacle. Well...them and the water rights lawyers. IKR?? While it is true that most land is uphill from the ocean, the areas of this country that get more rain are typically uphill from the places that don't get enough water.
  7. Seems like this Country could figure out a way to create a network of pipes/canals, similar to the interstate system, that could move water from areas that are flooding to areas that are in drought. It doesn't seem that it would be cost prohibitive in relation to the value it would bring. Especially since it any given time we have plenty of areas that are in drought and plenty in flood and the costs to mitigate droughts and massive fires is so high. If we can land shit on the moon, it seems like moving water should be easy.
  8. I always get whatever their gin and tonic made with Empress gin is. I think it’s called Mumbai Nights. Edit: And don’t pass on the jalapeño, cream cheese stuffed naan.
  9. That should really help them get the sanctions lifted quicker and garner them more global support....
  10. Normally I would agree and scoff at a prediction like this. However, in this particular case it is far more likely due to the fact that I have a Golf trip scheduled in Houston that Friday through Sunday.
  11. Shouldn't "Frank" be capitalized in this sentence?
  12. Blue Bell can/has feasibly fixed their listeria problem. Blue still intentionally uses high fructose corn syrup as a cost savings measure, while Creamy Creations uses cane sugar. If you do a legit blind taste test between the two, I suspect Creamy Creations wins and there is less chance you will die. I agree with whomever said the worst part of Buccee's is the people shopping there. I think it is also impossible to walk out of that store without dropping at least $50. There's damn near that much just between the jerky counter and the fudge table.
  13. Has there been any mention of how much actual territorial gain the Russians have made? Like how much actual square mileage? 100+ days in, over 30k dead soldiers, 600 officers, 800 tanks, countless APCs, the Flagship of the Black Sea. That seems like a stupid price to pay for barely gaining any new ground. Good work Putin. Keep it up!
  14. The streets in my neighborhood (Bull Creek/36) were damp this morning at 5:45 when I left the house. The area around 360/183 looked like it had received a pretty substantial shower. Hydromet don't show a trace of either receiving any rain.
  15. Yup. This has to be Putin's plan. Let's hope so. It seems like there has been an uptick in mutiny stories and the equipment situation is obviously deteriorating. At least from the vehicle standpoint. Seem like the missile strikes slowed way down but the artillery doesn't seem to be affected at all.
  16. There is about to a huge roaming pack of aggie gestapo scouring Colonial and trying to figure out who is Randy Duke.
  17. There should be a mega yacht repo man walking the docks of Monaco this weekend looking for ruskie Oligarch yachts at the race.
  18. 1.12" last night. 2.76" in the last seven days. 360@Bull Creek. So this is what it feels like to live in Bee Cave?
  19. And that's nobody's business but the Turks.
  20. Seven tanks? What is that? A typical Thursday afternoon for the Ukranians and those are gone-zo.
  21. <snacks> They're just saving time and being more efficient </snacks>
  22. Time did a piece tempering the positivity surrounding Ukraine for the short and long term. https://time.com/6176748/ukraine-war-economy/
  23. Kind of significant also because a lot of folks thought ol' Shoygu may have suicided himself.
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