Light one up, huff some paint, and grab a swig of grannie's moonshine if you want to get down to the appropriate level for this one.[Scene: We are in the local ABC Store (Alcohol Board of Control (or Aunt Bessie's Candy) store, the place you buy liquor in NC), buying presents for the drinking members of the family. Mrs. JC is debating on something for our son.]Me: (pointing to the row of moonshine in bottles modeled after Mason jars on the bottom shelf) You could always get him one of these as a sort of novelty.Her (dismissively): I'd rather get him something good to drink.
More than 95% of CA rice is grown in the northern Central Valley, in Colusa, Butte, Sutter, Glenn, Yuba and Yolo counties. Half of that is exported to east and southeast Asia (decades ago, they used to smuggle Calrose rice into Japan). Further south is more veg crops and fruit and nut trees (though almonds take a shit ton of water to grow). I'm not sure which family you're referring to, so I don't know where they get or grow their rice.
But yes, we have rice paddies up here. They also provide an abundance of crawdads after the fields are drained, and valuable bird habitat when they're wet, especially since the area is on the migratory flyways. :)
But is there really water there for that? I'm astounded. It seems rice paddies can't exist in this state. Even here in Alameda County nearer the coast, the normal land has dried up. I guess I'll have to look at the map after what you've said. The family I mentioned had print all over their rice cake packages all about how they enrich their land year after year, being a family business, etc. And I used to think 'after you've stolen everybody's water for a hundred miles around'. I pictured an ancient pipe, running downhill. Because I've seen those "we've got no water for these fields' signs too, and they were pretty alarming. So glad to hear there's water and food along the flyways, and somebody's thinking about it. How great if all those places were protected, including all the destinations.
Normally, yes. NCal isn't a desert like the southern half of the state. There are more rivers and higher mountains with snowcap storage, for one thing. One of the big water issues for decades has been the fight to keep SCal from sucking up all the water from NCal. The CA Aqueduct is proving insufficient to satisfy their thirst, but the proposed new pipelines would be a disaster, I think. 5 years of drought and a brief respite before going into more years it appears does change the picture, and you do see fewer rice fields due to that.
CA's whole water system is out of whack with pre-existing water rights and outdated laws. It doesn't have an easy fix, that's for sure, even if everyone wanted to work together to fix it, which they don't. I know I sure don't know what's the best compromise. :/
Well, in my area it really is a fight over Sierra snowmelt, mainly the Kings River and San Joaquin, plus sucking so much groundwater that the whole valley has subsided 100 feet over the last century.
The thing that really pisses off growers is the environmentalists who try to maintain at least a continual trickle of water down the San Joaquin, you know, for like fish to live. As it is, not a drop of water from the Kings River ever reaches the ocean. When the San Joaquin *does* reach the delta, I'm not kidding, Nunes ads sneer that "liberals are dumping our water in the ocean!"
I like this! "and lo, the devil stood abashed and felt how awful goodness feels..."
Hey everyone! Found the dad!
HIPAA
Mooooooooove over Roodles!
Somebody doesn't know what "quotation marks" mean - or what a lot of other things, inter alia "inter alia", mean.
Have you checked out Carrizo Plain National Monument? It's on the way, and quite the place for geology buffs.
OT, but since you mentioned it...
Light one up, huff some paint, and grab a swig of grannie's moonshine if you want to get down to the appropriate level for this one.[Scene: We are in the local ABC Store (Alcohol Board of Control (or Aunt Bessie's Candy) store, the place you buy liquor in NC), buying presents for the drinking members of the family. Mrs. JC is debating on something for our son.]Me: (pointing to the row of moonshine in bottles modeled after Mason jars on the bottom shelf) You could always get him one of these as a sort of novelty.Her (dismissively): I'd rather get him something good to drink.
In all fairness. "Traitor Tot" probably thinks it's "HIPPA".
That is the most exciting paper delivery story I've ever read. And it's my favorite genre. ( Isn't it a shame how few have cows in them?)
What about that family that makes rice cakes? Do they really get to grow rice in the Central Valley? Do they have rice paddies?
More than 95% of CA rice is grown in the northern Central Valley, in Colusa, Butte, Sutter, Glenn, Yuba and Yolo counties. Half of that is exported to east and southeast Asia (decades ago, they used to smuggle Calrose rice into Japan). Further south is more veg crops and fruit and nut trees (though almonds take a shit ton of water to grow). I'm not sure which family you're referring to, so I don't know where they get or grow their rice.
But yes, we have rice paddies up here. They also provide an abundance of crawdads after the fields are drained, and valuable bird habitat when they're wet, especially since the area is on the migratory flyways. :)
But is there really water there for that? I'm astounded. It seems rice paddies can't exist in this state. Even here in Alameda County nearer the coast, the normal land has dried up. I guess I'll have to look at the map after what you've said. The family I mentioned had print all over their rice cake packages all about how they enrich their land year after year, being a family business, etc. And I used to think 'after you've stolen everybody's water for a hundred miles around'. I pictured an ancient pipe, running downhill. Because I've seen those "we've got no water for these fields' signs too, and they were pretty alarming. So glad to hear there's water and food along the flyways, and somebody's thinking about it. How great if all those places were protected, including all the destinations.
Normally, yes. NCal isn't a desert like the southern half of the state. There are more rivers and higher mountains with snowcap storage, for one thing. One of the big water issues for decades has been the fight to keep SCal from sucking up all the water from NCal. The CA Aqueduct is proving insufficient to satisfy their thirst, but the proposed new pipelines would be a disaster, I think. 5 years of drought and a brief respite before going into more years it appears does change the picture, and you do see fewer rice fields due to that.
CA's whole water system is out of whack with pre-existing water rights and outdated laws. It doesn't have an easy fix, that's for sure, even if everyone wanted to work together to fix it, which they don't. I know I sure don't know what's the best compromise. :/
Nunes must never have heard of the Streisand Effect.
Stolen from Northern California and Southern Oregon...
Well, in my area it really is a fight over Sierra snowmelt, mainly the Kings River and San Joaquin, plus sucking so much groundwater that the whole valley has subsided 100 feet over the last century.
The thing that really pisses off growers is the environmentalists who try to maintain at least a continual trickle of water down the San Joaquin, you know, for like fish to live. As it is, not a drop of water from the Kings River ever reaches the ocean. When the San Joaquin *does* reach the delta, I'm not kidding, Nunes ads sneer that "liberals are dumping our water in the ocean!"