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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (40173)	5/27/2013 2:49:07 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Wharfie, unfortunately for the Alarmists, my memory is now lengthy. I remember droughts as a young boy. I remember brown grass everywhere, feet in buckets of water to keep cool, fans running to keep cool [we didn't have air conditioners], diving in the ocean to keep cool, playing under hoses to keep cool. Droughts were common in summer back in the day. Then we had a few decades were summer was a pathetic attempt at previous glories. This year, we got a good summer, albeit with some serious rain in the early days. The drought was a pretty good one, but nothing too extreme. Heck, a few days of rain and the grass popped right out and is now lush. Now we are getting the usual carnage of winter, with rain being in vast surplus. Here is a weather map [from today]. Note the queue of weather waiting to conduct onslaught on NZ. Note the dirty great high pressure over Oz, which enjoys seriously good weather most of the year. In NZ, we can use the ground as a water reservoir. Pump it out in summer, and it refills in winter. There are also some big rivers which could be used for irrigation. The economics of it in bygone times was to simply ride out the droughts rather than spend money on irrigation. Now, with farm produce so valuable, irrigation is getting consideration. Mqurice