Houston got slammed last night by storms which lasted for hours. Rain had been forecast but we had no idea that it was going to play-out like this. Luckily my power stayed on and the water didn't come inside the house, but my car had about 4 inches of water sitting in it when I went to check on it this morning.
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Just be thankful you don't live in California where the greenies are getting set to make people drink toilet water...and like it! It's recent on the 'everyone hates environmentalist and feminists' thread here. I estimate that the cost for the privilege of drinking sewer water will be a mere 10x or so what they pay now for whatever-the-hell they are drinking (which was snow-melt from the Sierra Nevadas when I lived in Silicon Valley, I believe, before I got the hell out of there a few years ago.) At least the anchovies will still swim up the San Francisco bay. Theoretically. Agenda-21 FTW!
You sound like you have a perfectly reasonable solution to a lack of water resources in California, so let's hear it!
