I've lived here around Richmond for plus ten years,

[rusty quoin]

and what I have got to say it is now a temperate rain forest. It rains just about everyday, and a lot. It is like Oregon use to be. I am sick of the rain and would love to give so much water to other parts of the USA.

[Duppers]

1. Beats the hell out of being kindling dry.

I'm down the road in Wmsbrg and can remember how dry it was 10+ yrs ago.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I'd invite you to move to New Mexico,

although long term water availability is going to be an issue. We've had serious drought in recent years, although this past winter was wet and the ski season was pretty much the best ever.

[rusty quoin]

4. I lived in San Diego and know about water's importance there.

Long term, how do we fix the wet here and the dry there? Is a pipeline coast to coast a dumb idea? I don’t know.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Long term, there will be a lot of climate refugees moving out of the southwest US

because the population isn't sustainable with the water that's available. The Colorado River Compact of 1922 divided the water between the upper basin and lower basin based on average flow levels at a certain point on the river; what no-one knew then was that the period from 1850-1950 or so was unusually wet, compared to the long-term average over hundreds and thousands of years. The water allotment decided in 1922 was more than actually flows through the Colorado in most years, by almost 25%. Long-term? Phoenix will be a ghost town, and Santa Fe, and Vegas and LA, and agriculture in the Central Valley in CA will no longer be sustainable (it isn't, really, now).

[rusty quoin]

7. It's what I said before. There will be migrations not seen since the decline of Ancient Rome.

Of course it will be much worse.

[womanofthehills]

6. I'm near Mountainair, NM and it sure is green right now

It usually gets this green in July when the monsoons come, but it’s lush out here right now and the Rio Grande is overflowing in some places. I have an apricot tree that for 20 yrs never had even one apricot. Global warming I guess because I have apricots this yr.

[shanti]

3. Oh

I thought you meant Richmond, California.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I thought the poster meant Richmond, VA.