The Trans-America Water Grid: Not just for the arid west anymore

On Dec 22, 2:02*pm, JR wrote:
Bob Weinberger wrote:
No, Washington state wasn't underwater, a small portion of the western one
third of the state was underwater. *Meanwhile, most of the other two thirds
of the state was as arid as Colorado. Why? *Because a little thing like the
Cascade Range, which creates a rain shadow, *means the dollar cost *(let
alone the environmental costs) of man moving the "excess" water across the
mountains outweighs the benefits.

Yeah, but Bob, the Columbia moves a WHOLE LOT of water from one
side of the Cascades to the other.

So, see, if we just had a big switch, and turned it around for 8
hours a day.....

- JR
(always glad to be of help)

The big switch is in the sky.. From here to far north Canokastan the
gray clouds go east almost daily. They drop a little rain here but
most carry water over the mountains to the headwaters of the
Columbia.
If we could only find a way to put the clouds in big bags and tow them
down south.

Speaking of floods the Bretz floods may not have been the biggest that
ever happened. Here's is an interesting artical about the Kuray-
Altari mountain floods in Siberia and Central Asia.
http://www.mines.edu/academic/geolog...docs/Altai.pdf