Texas RUNNING OUT OF WATER : Town water shut off!

The doom is strong

A little misleading, eh? This is some small Podunk town in Texas. Last time I checked, Texas was enormous.

Texas is made up of "small podunk towns", as you put it. And last time I checked the drought maps, all of Texas is running out of water!! Not misleading at all.

This is just the begining.

Last Edited by Artlicious on 08/08/2011 03:59 PM

This is true. I drove over a bridge that use to be a massive part of a lake yesterday and there was no water to be found. Not the worst I've seen it though.

That can't be good...
No hope in sight:
[link to droughtmonitor.unl.edu]

Exactly.. if more rain does not come, I don't know what they are going to do.
Maybe giant, water piplines running across the country would have been a better investment?

there are a lot of small podunk towns but you can find that shit anywhere. Austin is not a small podunk town. neither are San Antonio, Houston, or Dallas/Fort Worth.

Used to live in the DFW area. Would not want to be there if SHTF. Not a very hospitable environment, too high population for the land to support.

Just because they are big cities does not mean they are exempt from a drought...

Once the small towns start loosing they will go to the next water source, which in turn becomes overtapped and then they have to find yet another one.. they will run out.. unless the weather changes or they get a good size tropical storm or hurricane or something.

That's a drought of biblical proportions. No really...it is...

If it starts to get really bad, for the large cities. If all the water sources start to dry up.. what will they do? Where do they pump it in from? Anywhere?

Does anyone know how the water system down there works?

I know a lot of the farmers tap into fossil water under the ground, but I also know that is limited and drying out very quickly.

Next year can be much worse because of possible return of La Nina by fall/winter which would mean below average rainfall. I've seen it during 2005-2006 exceptional drought in Dallas-Ft Worth and 2007-2008 exceptional drought in south-central Texas. This drought covers ENTIRE Texas. The worst one year drought ever but not as lasting as the one back in 1950s.

What's scary is that we got VERY LUCKY to have received ample amount of rainfall from tropical systems last summer because that was all the rainfall Texas got. Imagine if we had not gotten them last summer... yikes.

The 12-week animation leads one to believe that it's going to get worse before it gets any better:

IMAGE ( [link to droughtmonitor.unl.edu] )

I know for my city they will just place tougher water restrictions and we have a contract to bring in water from other sources. Which means we will take from the smaller towns...

IC.. I hate to think of what its going to be like there after another month of this.

Cloud seeding anyone?

We are only in stage 2 its not too bad here I guess...
here a link
[link to www.saws.org]

I seen it worst we should get a hurricane soon...
And you can not cloud seed if there isnt any clouds....

Idiots...

Its going to get a lot worse.

Read that thread. The problems have just started


Thread: West Texas Lakes are drying up MAJOR DOOM!!

I know it.. let's hope they get a hurricane soon.. crazy that a US state wants a hurricane.. or a tropical storm or something!