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BOAT wrote:You guys could make a fortune selling all that water to people here in California.

No can do. The states and provinces surrounding the Great Lakes signed a pact that banned piping lake water outside the normal drainage areas surrounding the Great Lakes. Even some suburbs of Milwaukee are having a challenge getting water to them from Lake Michigan.

BOAT wrote:we can send wine and cheese

We already have the best cheese in the world, why do we need California cheese?

Well, you guys could send cheese over here then. I don't really know where the cheese comes from - it's just always 'there' when I get my glass of wine. You could pipe the cheese over here so we have more cheese for our wine.

You don't have to sent Great lakes water - you could send that white stuff instead.

Right now Brown and the Sacramento people are preparing to build a billion dollars of pipes and tanks and reservoirs and lakes and other stuff and they said that will make the drought go away. In the city next door to me (Carlsbad) they built a plant that turns seawater into drinking water and THEY said that will make the drought go away. Here in my own town of Oceanside they built a desalination plant in the river beds of the two rivers that run through town and THEY said that will make the drought go away! Who am I supposed to believe!?

All I know is that in the evening here when I go to the oceanfront and sit on the roof of the Hello Betty bar in my shorts and Hawaiian shirt and drink my wine and eat my cheese and watch the sailboats off shore sailing in the sunset I want everyone else to have nice warm sunsets and warm sea breezes too or I feel all alone. We need to send you guys more hot air.

Nice point.

Y.B.Normal wrote:We already have the best cheese in the world, why do we need California cheese?

dlandersson wrote:Nice point.

Y.B.Normal wrote:We already have the best cheese in the world, why do we need California cheese?

I don't know - Hollywood has been sending California cheeze all over the US for decades - I figure you guys would have become bored with it by now.

I get grief from French people every-time I even mention wine or cheese and I totally forgot about Wisconsin and the cheese heads. I was thinking more like North Dakota and Idaho and stuff. Not Wisconsin.

We could trk big slabs of ice or ices cubes to u like mini ice rinks or ice igloo,s , I think we r gonna be walking on ice on the Gt Lakes until mid July @ the rate things r going , calling for -8C here tonight

J

Highlander wrote:We could trk big slabs of ice or ices cubes to u like mini ice rinks or ice igloo,s , I think we r gonna be walking on ice on the Gt Lakes until mid July @ the rate things r going , calling for -8C here tonight

J

Man. that's a GREAT idea! I wonder if it were possible to send huge blocks of ice by rail, then over here we could thaw it out and use it as water! Or maybe make a huge 1000 foot ship out of ice and ship it to Long Beach?

It's sort of possible. And it's been tried.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/learn ... 12la1.html

mastreb wrote:It's sort of possible. And it's been tried.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/learn ... 12la1.html

I was successful at getting my iceberg to the thirsty people on the third try. Your right, it's harder than I thought - my first iceberg melted before I got into port, and my second iceberg was too big and it broke apart after I started towing it.

We need to have those guys up in Alaska and Canada show us how to tow the icebergs - it's trickier than we Californians think.

BOAT wrote:Man. that's a GREAT idea! I wonder if it were possible to send huge blocks of ice by rail, then over here we could thaw it out and use it as water!

During the big Chicago snow storm of 1967 they didn't have anywhere to put the snow, so they loaded the snow into empty railroad boxcars that were going South. They had snowball fights in Miami that year.

Maybe if they loaded the snow out East into tank cars going to California....

Yeah, if you guys want to get rid of your snow we will take it. I will see if I can send back some warm weather. Would 71 degrees during the day and 59 degrees during the night be okay? We have like 40 days just like that over here since new years and many more to come so we can spare plenty if you want some. It's great sailing weather.

Here ya go!!

http://youtu.be/svKq044qrYU

BOAT wrote:Yeah, if you guys want to get rid of your snow we will take it. I will see if I can send back some warm weather. Would 71 degrees during the day and 59 degrees during the night be okay? We have like 40 days just like that over here since new years and many more to come so we can spare plenty if you want some. It's great sailing weather.

Well if we done that , we would not have any fun in the off season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-QzE_i0qwE

J

Since most of us down here have never even seen a snowmobile in real life I'm not really sure what I am looking at. Could be a jet ski for all I know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fCEQjYG46Q

This is how Northerners ride. Half this is shot on the pass we take to get to the boat. Had many many beers with many of these guys over the years.

Hey, one of those snow mobiles had only one ski thing on the front - it looked like he was driving it like a motorcycle.