AI6YR BenHmm... rain expected in the next 7 days in SoCal. Also a LOT of rain there in the midwest. #CAwx #rain
Carsten Franke@ai6yr and it seems to miss the Corpus Christi area in Texas, for the most part. They have a little water issue
@carstenfranke Oh wow. I am usually on top of this stuff, but the war signals are overwhelming the normal media and this stuff is getting lost.
Texas Observer: The Corpus Christi Water Crisis Isn’t Exceptional. It’s Early.
When drought cycles outpace infrastructure planning, a water emergency is not a surprise—it’s a forecas
https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-crisis-climate-projections/
@ai6yr yup, I see all these developments, millions of people moving to the warm, dry States, with oil refineries, data centers and chip factories being built in locations that have been in drought for years. With no turning point in sight... Baffling...
Bond. James Bond.It's definitely not a lost story in Texas, I assure you.
Although many are still in denial about where this is all headed.
@ai6yr another good report.
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/after-a-decade-of-missteps-corpus-christi-careens-toward-water-catastrophe/
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/after-a-decade-of-missteps-corpus-christi-careens-toward-water-catastrophe/
After a decade of missteps, Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe
City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent, former officials say.
@carstenfranke Wow
"...threatens to cut off the flow of jet fuel to Texas airports and other oil exports from one of the nation’s largest petroleum ports, triggering potential shockwaves through energy markets in Texas and beyond....state emergency managers would need billions of dollars to “build emergency temporary pipelines or subsidize desalination barge rentals to prevent a total evacuation of the city.”"
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@ai6yr yup, that caught my attention, too. Especially in combination with the war that had just started... I think the article is from early March. Italy already has jet fuel restrictions... Asia has a jet fuel and diesel shortage... Europe counts on buying LNG from the US... And Asia now wants the same LNG since the Strait of Hormuz is closed. This summer will be chaos.
John Timaeus"
Asked about plans to develop alternative jet fuel supplies for Texas airports in the case of a shutdown, Paulison said, “I’m sure that someone somewhere is working on that.”
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@johntimaeus @ai6yr I love that phrase... /s
When I worked in the corporate world that someone was often me...
When I worked in the corporate world that someone was often me...
Peggy Heinkel-WolfeThe main problem (IMHO as a retired, Texas journalist who covered such issues for two decades) is that too many massive industrial users tried to build fast, and strong-armed the city into selling them its water. That should've never, ever happened. And the state water board should NEVER have allowed it. But Texas always plays it this way, because some of the biggest rains in the world happen there. One good hurricane's worth of rain in that watershed (it's right there in the story) and they can kick the can down the road for another few years. That's what they are counting on.
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Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸@ai6yr Im just a few miles north of the red blobs in Iowa. Looks be like we’ll get a fraction of an inch per day, for several days, per Apple weather app. Which is exactly the kind of spring rain we want and need. 😀
lonely extrovert@ai6yr duluth is having the weirdest blizzard ever, it seems. sunshine and snow have been alternating every few hours for like the last week. thursday and friday the roads were terrible and it snowed both days with high winds; by saturday it was better but then wait here's some sleet... more snow and hey sun for this morning but HAH fooled you, hey it's snowing again LOL WUT
@ai6yr well, april snow is certainly not unusual in MN, and this far north it's kind of a given. it's the rapid fluctuation that's so bizarre. but temps have been just over or just under freezing, so it's annoying.
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