Today our daughter took us to a Mexican restaurant in Paradise, a town about 10 miles east of Chico. Paradise is the town of 27,000 people that burned on November 8, 2018, destroying almost all of the homes and killing 85 people. The area is a beehive of activity, with new homes and businesses going up and greenery emerging. Rachael said for months after the fire thousands of truckloads of debris were hauled out to landfills. Nonetheless, it is doubtful the city will ever return to what it was.
Chico itself was a refugee center, gaining thousands of residents overnight. Many Paradise residents lost everything in the fire and still have not recovered. And once again, the winter rains were below normal, the snowpack is thin, and Lake Oroville is down. California always dries out in the summer, but it is looking like it usually does in August. The dryness is not confined to California; much of the Western part of the U.S. is suffering a multi-year drought.
I often recall my trips to Calif in May for trade shows and always thought that it should be greener in the Frisco area. The hills were always brown. On the other hand we are so blasted here in Penna. We have an abundance of water. I truly believe that one day there will be large pipelines across the country that will be sending water to these area's. This has been working in the Northeast for a long time, Up state New York to the city. Pocono's from out own area to Bethlehem. How about Canada to Calif., instead of an oil pipeline, but water.
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