Nor would I, and that’s why I go there at the time of day/day of the week when those long lines are not present.
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Glad you are on the road to recovery.
OK I’ll change the subject. Read an article yesterday that Las Vegas is considering banning new grass. It’s a water thing. Of course water is a little different. Its a cycle, use, evaporation, and down it comes again. More of a distribution issue I guess.
What next? Ban indoor tabaco smoking? Welcome to the twenty-first century.
Irrigation water comes from Lake Mead. The white rock in the picture below of Hoover Dam was once under water.
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Maybe where you live. The Western US has been in a severe drought for many years. The Western water cycle is collection, use/evaporation and that’s it, rain rarely comes and when it does, it’s so fast that it frequently runs off before it can be collected. Let’s hope that 198 inches of snow the Sierras got so far in December translates into a little more water in the reservoirs when Spring arrives.
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Nope, not out west. Where does your water come from? Suppose you lived in Los Angeles, and you found out that the city has to pipe your water in from over 200 miles away, getting it over a mountain range and destroying the agricultural industry in the valley where the water originates? How would you think about water usage then? Well that’s what’s happened, and to make it more interesting that’s what happened over 100 years ago. You see what Lake Mead looks like now by the picture above.
But let’s keep this car related. So much water has been pumped out of the ground in the Midwest, out of the Ogallala Aquifer that the quality of the water is seriously deteriorating. My uncle’s family homesteaded in Eastern Montana in the 1920’s. By 1990 the water table had sunk so far and the water so different that we were not allowed to use it in car and tractor radiators. Eventually we couldn’t even drink it.
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But not in the same spot.
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Had a couple of lakes dry up in central WI due to high capacity wells. MI expecting 100 million dollars to repair flood damage to roads. Too much or not enough water troubles so many places.