"Skip Elliott Bowman" wrote in message
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"Dave Thompson" wrote in message
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"Skip Elliott Bowman" wrote in message
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"Dave Thompson" wrote in message
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In Arizona we've been under drought conditions for ten years. We got
your rain this year, almost as much as we would get in an entire year,
and it's helped to a degree with filling up our resevoirs and aquifer.

Actually, Phoenix has had more rain than Portland so far this year.

Yes, I believe it has. Kinda what I was saying. We got your rain.

Everywhere else is getting our rain.

I'm sure your ecosystem will handle it just fine, like our deserts handle
occaissional floods without rotting out. Look at tree growth rings some
time. The older ones have handled decades of droughts.

Some did--millions didn't.

2 - Just because we got all this rain should we start worrying about a
deluge and build an ark? Put it in perspective and enjoy the sunshine
for a change. You'll have plenty of gloom again.

If Phoenix/Scottsdale/Tempe has massive flooding (the drains there are
built for drought conditions, not constant rain)

You have no frigging clue what you are talking about. We've had no
flooding here this year, and we've had 7 times the rain in a few short
days than we normally have during the first part of the year. All they
had to do was open a few dams and let the excess through. BTW - the storm
drains here, unlike Portland, are built to handle large amounts of water
in a short period of time because that's what happens here. The only bad
flooding we ever had was over twenty years ago, and that's been solved.

First of all, I said IF. Second of all, are you asserting that the
possibility of floods in Phoenix doesn't exist?

and you do need to build an ark,
from where do you think the wood will originate? Sedona?

Home Depot.

And where does HD get the wood?

Asia, central america ... many places.

We have put it into perspective, and the prognosis sucks. You should
realize that even if you lived in Death Valley. Try using some
perspective yourself, Dave.

I've lived in both places. Portland over reacts to low rain. It wasn't
too long ago you were building dikes to keep the downtown from flooding.

Were you here, Dave? Downtown Portland was in real danger of flooding.
Oregon City did in fact have massive floods (businesses awash and many
ruined); the Tualatin Hills suffered from landslides--and insurance won't
cover those. And you thought we overreacted, eh?

It
might be dry and sunny there this year. Just put it in perspective: your
tomato crops will be fantastic.

Is that the only thing you think this means, Dave? A good tomato crop?

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