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groovyStallion ago

Jade Helm*

Sorry for the title typo. In 2 days, I've snapped these pics of military choppers flying over and near my large apartment complex. I see them all over town, too.

I keep hearing more about the EXTREME DROUGHT every day. They changed the electronic highway signs to say "EXTREME DROUGHT," and my gym has installed reminder timers in the showers.

The food/gas/water/electricity has gotten insanely expensive in a span of just a few weeks. It's really not a big stretch of the imagination to think about a state-of-emergency-level drought causing us to be evacuated in the next month or so.

No one else seems to notice.

BeerBaron ago

There's a reason the states involved in this exercise were chosen. Water scarcity in the US south-west is a SERIOUS fucking problem that absolutely no one is doing a damn thing about. Nevada, Arizona, California, Utah, and New Mexico should have all had a "No More Vacancy" sign up a long time ago.

Rather than doing anything about it, the citizens and corporations have dwindled the Colorado to a trickle. Lake Mead will be Pond Mead in 5 years time.

Everyone has stuck their heads in the sand thinking that this problem will somehow magically solve itself, and it hasn't. At least at the Federal level there's enough foresight to say "Shit, this road is going nowhere good, we better make sure we have people ready to deal with this". They're preparing for when the southwest is declared an emergency zone and people are forced out, because the area simply CAN NOT sustain the population that lives in it.

It's one thing to tell people to not water their lawns or limit their showers, it's something completely different when nothing comes out of the tap when you turn it on. We're a LOT closer to that point then many people realize.