On our three week bucket-list vacation extravaganza, we toured the Hoover Dam and were told that, "At current water usage rates, the turbines will not be able to spin in the power house within a year". It takes a certain pressure to spin them (which is dependent on water column height) and Lake Mead is 50-75 feet below full-pool. The entire Southwest is in a state of drought. If that watershed does not get moisture, crops will go brown and die and the lights will brown out.... Truly Gov. Brown has a brown problem on his hands while passing legislation and egging on the Prop 8 people to swat down the correct notion of marriage. Another brown problem..... So, I say to you Gov. Brown - get it turned around - and turned around quickly - or you will find yourself with a much bigger problem. May it hit the people who back him and his insane policies the most and may the few good people in SoCal avoid the mess that they have gotten themselves into by nature of who they are surrounded by.... A generation of vipers shall not escape the damnations of hell.....
Here is the article:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Governor-Brown-California-Drought-240821841.html
While touring Hearst mansion on the coast, they said they have only had a few inches of rain in the past year. Completely browned out. It is getting critical there, as well. Redwood forests, same thing. Normally average rainfall amongst the Redwood forests in December is 11-12" (their rainy season). They are down to just a few inches in that period for 2013. It is critical.
I am my ward's welfare specialist / emergency preparedness specialist. I have been in this calling since May of last year. This calling has been a challenge, mostly because I see up close how people are exercising their agency. My family is so much more prepared now and I have been able to help a handful of families get a little more prepared. Mostly I get lots of eyeball-rolling or looks of being completely overwhelmed. I have appreciated your insights and have been able to share them and favorite books with a handful of people who are willing to listen. I have posted a few comments on your blog that you have shared with your readership and I'm glad I was able to contribute in a small way. Most people think I am just crazy or way too into my calling.
ReplyDeleteWith it being a new year, I am hoping to sit down with my bishop (and maybe the ward council, too) and go over what he feels our ward needs. My bishop is somewhat on board. His counselors are not. I visit teach the wife of one of the counselors whose children are starting to fly the coop. Amazingly she feels the need to get rid of the little food storage she has. It blows my mind! I am writing to you because perhaps you might be "in the know" on what some other wards and stakes are doing. My husband's twin's ward has recently put a ward emergency plan into place that included identifying member's properties that can be used as makeshift morgues. He lives in Layton. Our bishop (we live in Kaysville) said something like that is not on the agenda for our ward. I see the writing on the wall. My family is getting prepared and then some. We unfortunately live not far from the Great Salt Lake and Hill Air Force Base, neither of which bode well for the future, not to mention the earthquakes coming. And yet I know we are supposed to be here and have had that manifest to us over and over again. Last summer my autistic son told me out of the blue that he had a dream one night. In the dream, Heavenly Father told him our family would be safe and that he would lead us into the wilderness. I hang on to that!
Anyway, I would appreciate any insights you can share that I might be able to help a few more people in my ward.
Michelle Tholen
tholenms@yahoo.com