Weather
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Azrayne
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It's been freakishly cold here in Aus right now, and has been all summer. Usually January & February are nonstop 35 - 45, only occasionally ducking below that, but all summer we've been hovering around 20 - 30, sometimes even lower (it was 16 earlier today). We also had some heavy rain over the last few weeks (2 - 3 days straight a week ago) when usually this is our dry season (in South Australia anyway).
I like how as winter drags on, the county/city basically just gives up on keeping the streets clean. We had 4 inches or so last night in Cleveland, not a fucking plow in site until this morning. And they just kinda pushed it around, not actually cleaned it 100% completely up with an inch of salt down like they do when it snows in December.
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I'm willing to bet some of that has to do with how badly the budget has been blown at this point.
Falstaff
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A lot of Chicago suburbs are completely out of salt at this point, and if they can get it, they are paying almost 1000% more per ton. Our last significant snow a couple weeks ago was pretty brutal because plows waited until it was completely finished and then essentially plowed the middle of the street and that was it. Luckily we got about three days in a row of near 50 degree temps so that melted 75% of the snow build up.
Unfortunately its fucking 5 degrees here again today and will be colder tomorrow. Then we are expected to get another 6 to 9 inches between Friday night and Sunday night. Fuck this winter.
Unfortunately its fucking 5 degrees here again today and will be colder tomorrow. Then we are expected to get another 6 to 9 inches between Friday night and Sunday night. Fuck this winter.
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I still love the winter. We're going sledding again tomorrow. Cold as crap here today, so we're hunkered down in front of the fire. Lots of hot chocolate. Board games later.
Fun times!
Fun times!
Tuco
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Tuco
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It's raining in California! That's exciting. Here's Folsom Lake near Sacramento. Doesn't look good.
BrutulTM
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Yeah, I think they usually budget enough OT for 3 or 4 good storms per winter and if you get 3 or 4 in December then it's going to be slim pickings for the rest of the year. Also there is a thing where the snow plow drivers are excited about making OT for the first few weeks but once there's been a month of plowing in the middle of the night they are less motivated by OT and more tired and sick of driving the shit so it gets harder to convince them to rush out and plow streets. My neighbor is a road maintenance guy and you can watch him go from motivated to miserable over the course of a long snowy winter.
Alex
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CaughtCross
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California is, and there are a bunch of smaller plants all over So Cal, they just arnt turned on most the time since it is expensive. Argiculture uses far more water than people do in California. Its the biggest argicultural state in the country.
Israel Desalination Shows California Not to Fear Drought - Bloomberg
Tuco
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There's a lot of research into desalination, but it's pretty expensive. As tech improves and cost of water increases it'll become more viable, but for now it's more of a research field than a mass production one.
Israel and Saudi arabia are much more reliant on desalination plants and are two of the leaders in the field.
