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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door
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On 1/11/2025 8:54 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:48:19 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/10/25 13:49, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 
> <snippo stuff>
> 
>>> If LA has dropped their water sources, can San Fransisco be far behind ?
>>>
>>
>> 	You do not know much abour California, Northern or Southern.
>> 	San Francisco in the early 20th Century got approval amd built a
>> dam in the Sierra in a canyon as big as Yosemite and has a large
>> reservoir there as well as a hydro-power generating facility.
>> 	
>> 	Los Angeles stole the water from thee Owens Valley about the
>> same time and then later negotiated for Colorado River water. The
>> watershed of the Colorado of late has been drier than normal and
>> it is hard to get water that is not there.
>>
>> 	So Southern California conceived a grand solution to their
>> water problems. The result was the Delta Water project which extracts
>> water from the Delta of the Sacramento-San Joaquin river and via a
>> long canal ships it south to LA. That is not good for either the
>> wildlife of the rivers or the agricultural interests of the Central
>> Valley of California but the people of LA and their swimming pools
>> must be served.
>> 	So Southern California was a desert land most of the time
>> but that meant nothing to the Real Estate interests of the South.
>>
>> 	So Southern California should be abandoned by all but the
>> entertainment industry and the retirees should move to Florida.:^(
> 
> Florida is out -- retirees are fleeing because of the high condo fees,
> or some such nonsense.
> 
> Well, according to /some/ online sources, anyway.

High insurance costs for all the beachfront buildings that are starting 
to subside because of rising sea levels and the resulting knock-on 
effects from that like insurance companies refusing to add new policies 
or renew existing ones because doing so would endanger their profits.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.