It's really no joking matter. If things continue on this trajectory, there is a real threat to Las Vegas. They and other metro areas on the Colorado River like Phoenix have already instituted draconian water restrictions, such as watering lawns and landscapes.

I have been following the reporting of several guys on Lake Mead and they both say that the reports from both government sources and Universities on Lake levels are overly optimistic. They have been charting the levels every month and say that the lake will reach a dead pool THIS YEAR. That is the level at which the water intakes for the turbines are no longer in the water and are dry. At that point, electrical generation will stop. One of these guys has said that LV has one pipe deep into the reservoir that may keep them able to provide water for a while once it reaches dead pool status.

When the water dries up, guess what will happen to LV?

(07-19-2022 04:04 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  It's really no joking matter. If things continue on this trajectory, there is a real threat to Las Vegas. They and other metro areas on the Colorado River like Phoenix have already instituted draconian water restrictions, such as watering lawns and landscapes.

I have been following the reporting of several guys on Lake Mead and they both say that the reports from both government sources and Universities on Lake levels are overly optimistic. They have been charting the levels every month and say that the lake will reach a dead pool THIS YEAR. That is the level at which the water intakes for the turbines are no longer in the water and are dry. At that point, electrical generation will stop. One of these guys has said that LV has one pipe deep into the reservoir that may keep them able to provide water for a while once it reaches dead pool status.

When the water dries up, guess what will happen to LV?

You are correct. It's no joking matter. What does astound me is the following:

1. People who continue to put mobiles homes in Tornado Alley where tornadoes have existed in high numbers for thousands of years.
2. Why people continue to build subdivisions in the Chapperal of California where brush fires have naturally occurred for thousands of years.
3. Why people build cities in deserts that have been deserts for thousands of years.

Every year since I've was a kid in the 70's and 80's I've heard the gloom and doom of water shortages in the west, the countless homes burned to the ground in California, the mobile homes destroyed by tornadoes, the droughts, the heat waves, etc.

We humans do stupid things.

There have been recent fires at refineries in Oklahoma and Texas.

Antifa? Iranians? Russians? Chinese? or pure chance?

I believe that the refinery fires are not anything out of the ordinary. These kinds of accidents at refineries and chemical plants happen from time to time. Texas has had a few over the years, some quite bad.

(07-19-2022 04:18 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  

(07-19-2022 04:04 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  It's really no joking matter. If things continue on this trajectory, there is a real threat to Las Vegas. They and other metro areas on the Colorado River like Phoenix have already instituted draconian water restrictions, such as watering lawns and landscapes.

I have been following the reporting of several guys on Lake Mead and they both say that the reports from both government sources and Universities on Lake levels are overly optimistic. They have been charting the levels every month and say that the lake will reach a dead pool THIS YEAR. That is the level at which the water intakes for the turbines are no longer in the water and are dry. At that point, electrical generation will stop. One of these guys has said that LV has one pipe deep into the reservoir that may keep them able to provide water for a while once it reaches dead pool status.

When the water dries up, guess what will happen to LV?

You are correct. It's no joking matter. What does astound me is the following:

1. People who continue to put mobiles homes in Tornado Alley where tornadoes have existed in high numbers for thousands of years.
2. Why people continue to build subdivisions in the Chapperal of California where brush fires have naturally occurred for thousands of years.
3. Why people build cities in deserts that have been deserts for thousands of years.

Every year since I've was a kid in the 70's and 80's I've heard the gloom and doom of water shortages in the west, the countless homes burned to the ground in California, the mobile homes destroyed by tornadoes, the droughts, the heat waves, etc.

We humans do stupid things.

Are you saying building Las Vegas was a… gamble?

Vegas was much better when the mob ran it...nowadays the Democrats and the gub'mint run it and it is falling apart...

(07-19-2022 07:00 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Vegas was much better when the mob ran it...nowadays the Democrats and the gub'mint run it and it is falling apart...

All you smell is ditch weed the whole time your outside.

One has to wonder if this wasn't some kind of terrorist attack.

I’m more concerned about the alarming number of fires at food processing plants across the country. There’s definitely a connection with those

(07-19-2022 07:07 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(07-19-2022 07:00 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Vegas was much better when the mob ran it...nowadays the Democrats and the gub'mint run it and it is falling apart...

All you smell is ditch weed the whole time your outside.

In Atlanta you can't even get away from it in your car on the freeway. You would think those people would realize they smell like skunks.

(07-19-2022 07:40 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-19-2022 07:07 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(07-19-2022 07:00 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Vegas was much better when the mob ran it...nowadays the Democrats and the gub'mint run it and it is falling apart...

All you smell is ditch weed the whole time your outside.

In Atlanta you can't even get away from it in your car on the freeway. You would think those people would realize they smell like skunks.

bullet speaks the truth. I’m deeply thankful to have a decent work-from-home job. For the past 2.5 years, I’ve probably had to get on the local interstates no more than once or (sometimes) twice a month.