Australian fires?

[Keith Antoine]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
>
> More snow this year in the "Midwest" as we call it and East, but not 
> in CA.  This year has been a drought; only now are we getting some 
> rain which may bring it back to something close to a normal year.  But 
> Calif is basically a desert that depends on the mountain snowpack for 
> water. 80% of CA water goes to agriculture and we grow things like 
> cotton and rice in a desert, and the price of water is subsidized for 
> agriculture, so certainly some things will change as the climate changes.
>

Well we have the firs down in Victoria and also NSW, floods in most of 
Qld, Drought the rest: Great picture Eh?

>
> Stupid question of the week:  if you have rain in Queensland and 
> drought in Melbourne, how 'bout a big pipe?  We do dumb things like 
> that in CA.
>
We must have the same Politicians and Public Service Beauracrats: they 
want to pie water from Darwin area to Vic and NSW some 5000km.

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Keith Antoine AKA 'Skippy'
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