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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (66637)	5/7/2006 2:16:37 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 361203

Man it's been rough on many yards. Going on 3 months now. Guess we'll get some next month in the form of hurricanes. :•)

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (66637)	5/7/2006 3:44:32 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 361203

yer not alone...just found this, TOD open thread As this is an open thread, I thought I'd start on something that will affect southern England this summer. One thought that has occurred to me is what may happen this summer if southern England has to use standpipes. For most of the rest of the world, this may come as a surprise, but southern England has had little rain for the past 2 winters and our reservoirs are drying up. Northern England and the rest of the UK have had enough rain and/or have a smaller population in relation to the rainfall they have received. If southern England has to start using standpipes by the side of road and water bowsers in the streets to supply drinking water, how are the elderly or infirm going to cope? An eighty year old man or woman is not going to be able to carry a 20 litre plastic cannister to the stand pipes and walk back again with it filled up. Will they be able to lift the plastic can up onto a table, tip it on its side so water can be poured out? Very unlikely. And how many times a day will this procedure be done? As the average person in southern England uses 160 litres a day, an elderly couple is going to need 16 trips each day. It is unlikely that they will manage that, and who will have the time to do it for them? People in tower blocks are going to have a hard time getting water back to their flats. This is not really connected with Peak Oil, but is one of the side effects. Not many people realise how much energy is needed to move drinkable water around the local area, and then remove the wastewater afterwards. This drought will bring home to many people how much water weighs and how inconvenient it is not to open up a tap and have clean, drinkable water pour out of it. At least people in southern England only have to walk down a street to get drinkable water, not a couple of miles in sweltering conditions. How much energy will be available in twenty/thirty years time to purify and move water around the underground pipes? And what happens if there is a drought in thirty years time. How will water be delivered then? I doubt there would be spare diesel for the water tankers.