50-50 odds that Lake Powell and Lake Mead will go dry

[zad0030]

[Domsz06]

thats' a sweet pic!!

[time2kyl]

I think I might have to go out and do some exploratory research this afternoon...

[Timmy!]

Holy Glass! I've still never got to experience water that good!

[eks]

yup your correct Timmy!!

It's still on the forum too

Sorry, I was out of the country for a couple of weeks and missed that thread.

[turbonine]

I was talking to a Forest Service guy at the Phoenix boat show and he had a printout of the forecasted eleveations through entire 2008. It peaked at 3628 mid summer and was predicted to stay above 3620 through November.

Why is 3620 important? That is the required elevation for the Castle Rock bypass. The bypass should be available all summer.

He also mentioned that they are in the final appeal period for the cut/dig. If/when approved it would only take 2 weeks to dig the Castle Rock Cut deeper.

[ragboy]

Ragboy, that sounds like a great trip. Would the water level now allow you to do the same trip?

I don't think so, but they roped off when it got real interesting the next time we went. But even going in 20 miles, was incredible. Make sure you fill up at temple bar, take extra gas, and leave early. Take a VHF radio also. I may be foolhearty sometimes, but I was prepared in those senses.

[ragboy]

I have had water, just like that, and it was on lake mead also. NEVER have seen it like that again, anywhere. At echo bay, summer of 80 or 81, for a full week, from echo bay marina all the way to the narrows. We skiid our brains out. I was 12.

[ragboy]

Seems like this story is getting picked up all over, newsweek with lots of pictures.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/110949

[Domsz06]

wow we are all doomed!! the end is near, the end is near

[sparky216]

Maybe someone can educate me on water, but I don't know how we can "run out" of water. If you drink water, water plants...etc, doesn't it just evaporate and rain somewhere else? I can understand rain pattern and snow packs moving or a cycle of drought and floods, but how do we ever run out of water?

[ragboy]

The water is somewhere else, not dissapeared. Either in the ocean, or somewhere, but not in the southwest.

[tktige']

More media hype just to sell a worthless rag of a magazine, they have to do something to try to sell it because all their lies in the past have pissed off their readers who know the facts. Just a bunch of libs and their Gorebal warming

[eks]

Well, I believe the issue is where the water is allocated. For instance, imagine if a new subdivision with 500 homes was put in a desert place, the water that use to go to lakes now is redirected to the new subdivision to irrigate their lawn and so forth. Some places where it use to be a dry desert now is a green lawn.

The water is still here, but now it is going to different place instead of our Lakes. I believe the problem is consumption and not disappearance.

[Domsz06]

Well, I believe the issue is where the water is allocated. For instance, imagine if a new subdivision with 500 homes was put in a desert place, the water that use to go to lakes now is redirected to the new subdivision to irrigate their lawn and so forth. Some places where it use to be a dry desert now is a green lawn.

The water is still here, but now it is going to different place instead of our Lakes. I believe the problem is consumption and not disappearance.

you are correct, also it's been a drought in that area so the water is still on the Earth, just not in that area.

make sense?