Re: [VO]:Chicken Little The Sky is Falling

2009-02-01 Thread Taylor J. Smith
Hi Richard, We may be entering the long severe phase of the drought cycle (over 100 years?) that in the past wiped out the Anasasi. Jack Smith R C Macaulay wrote: We are entering the second year phase of a drouth in the Texas- Midwest region and a certain Californio area that is

Re: [VO]:Chicken Little The Sky is Falling

2009-02-01 Thread mixent
In reply to Taylor J. Smith's message of Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:59:28 +: Hi, [snip] Hi Richard, We may be entering the long severe phase of the drought cycle (over 100 years?) that in the past wiped out the Anasasi. Jack Smith This year is La Nina, dry in the USA, wet in Australia. [snip]

Re: [VO]:Chicken Little The Sky is Falling

2009-02-01 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jack, Interesting observation. Better evidence indicates the Anasasi ( those who came before) passed into obvilion in a short less than a30 year time frame somewhere around the 12 th century AD. Spent some time at Aztec, New Mexico studying the ruins of an ancient farming village along

Re: [VO]:Chicken Little The Sky is Falling

2009-02-01 Thread mixent
In reply to R C Macaulay's message of Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:47:17 -0600: Hi, [snip] Dry times.. While serving on the state water planning board, I made the mistake of stating people should never build cities in the desert like San Antonio or El Paso Texas.. the comment made during a public

Re:[VO]:Chicken Little The Sky is Falling

2009-01-31 Thread Michael Foster
I dunno, Richard. I think we might need free whiskey, too. It's, you know, an emergency. M.

Re: Re:[VO]:Chicken Little The Sky is Falling

2009-01-31 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Michael, We are entering the second year phase of a drouth in the Texas- Midwest region and a certain Californio area that is beginning to get scary. Lack of rainfall this year can have a double whammy impact on food grains at a time when the nation's grain stores are already below