Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
This drought talk cracks me up. The southwest desert has been in a drought for 15 years, they say. Here in Vegas the "normal rainfall" is just over 4 inches a year and over last 15 year's it has been half that. So my question is, when does it stop being called a drought and just become the new "normal"?

Btw, I'm sure people have seen recent videos of all the flooding at some strip casinos over the past couple weeks. Despite what sure seemed like several hard rainfall, our YTD rainfall is 0.81 inches.

I don't know how that is possible.
Yes, I've had the same thoughts. The 1 in 100 year event type stuff isn't really 1 in 100 in many places. I wonder how insurance is going to pan out. Fires suck. Stay out of the forests and hills.

Anyway, I butchered my previous post but all I was going to say, flooding or not, the underlying issues have not changed after these floods around the US.

I just saw a headline how some small town somewhere is basically out of water due to fire-fighting in the nearby forests or whatever.

What happens when a nuclear armed country can't feed 90% of their population? Well they want to be fed... Things play out often in fantastic ways people don't forsee. It will be interesting but we still have many good years. Our kids though not so sure.

It'l be interesting in the earlier years and like pretty horrible towards the end. I still feel like i was born at pretty much peak humanity and it has been a pleasure seeing it all progress.