Not far behind you Alan - 25°C for us - but then I grew up in the UK! John in Brisbane
-----Original Message----- From: Alan C <c...@lantic.net> Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2022 9:28 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Heat wave Welcome to Phalaborwa. We turn on the heaters when it goes under 40°C! Alan C On 07-Sep-22 02:25 AM, John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:50:57PM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote: >> Here, down to a balmy 21 or so daytime, big fat low revolving over us >> dumping good amounts of rain. The grass has lost the bright yellow glow and >> patches of green are returning. Rain til the weekend. Happier days. >> >> Cot > What is this grass of which you speak? :-) > > > I stopped watering the grass several years ago when it became painfully > obvious that: > > 1) California didn't have enough water to meet existing requirements, > let alone the increases expected from population growth. > > 2) It was extremely unlikely that California would be able to get the > votes required to change the allocation system, so there was no way > to prevent long-established agriculture, etc., having first rights > to take as much water as they wanted to grow crops; there wasn't > even a way to require efficient irrigation systems (too expensive) > or to prevent crops such as almonds (or even hay) being exported. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to > pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
