Los Angeles Suffers Longest Dry Spell in 130 Years

April 2nd, 2007

Via: Breitbart:

Los Angeles is going through its longest dry spell in at least 130 years, the National Weather Service said Sunday, fueling fears of rampant wildfires which have plagued the US west coast in recent years.

“The rain season is currently the driest to date in downtown Los Angeles since records began in 1877,” the weather service said in a statement.

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One Response to “Los Angeles Suffers Longest Dry Spell in 130 Years”

  1. bob mckracken says:
    April 2, 2007 at 9:29 am

    Hi, srry to hijack the first comment, but a couple of interesting links on other matters (not that water isn’t important either =P and speaking of, how did you fare in the quake swarm? hope everything is well =) )

    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/033007A.shtml
    GAO: Looming Threat to US Oil Supply

    choice quote – “Simmons’s company has invested billions of dollars in oil-related technology and played a major role in the development of new technologies over the past thirty years. He says the industry “doesn’t have any new technology coming on line,” adding that “the idea new oil extraction technology can save us is a complete fallacy.” Simmons thinks that world oil production may have peaked in 2005 and said “the odds of us not peaking in the next five years are zero.”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/29/60minutes/main2625305.shtml
    Under The Influence
    60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft Reports On Drug Lobbyists’ Role in Passing Bill That Keeps Drug Prices High

    choice quote – “In all, at least 15 congressional staffers, congressmen and federal officials left to go to work for the pharmaceutical industry, whose profits were increased by several billion dollars.

    “I mean, they — they have unlimited resources. Unlimited,” Burton says. “And when they push real hard to get something accomplished in the Congress of the United States, they can get it done.”

    In January, one of the first things the new Democratic House of Representatives did was to make it mandatory for Medicare to negotiate lower prices with the drug companies.

    A similar measure faces stiff opposition in the Senate, where the drug lobby is spending millions of dollars to defeat it. The president has already announced that if the bill passes, he will veto it.”

    Yep, everything is just peaches and cream.

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