My son is Fire Chief for the Long Grove Volunteer dept. I hate hearing and seeing trucks go out especially in bad weather or wee hours of the morning. (But I tend to worry/over think about everyone and everything.) *sigh*
Case in point ... My son's father in law was the lead lawyer to defend against the law suit filed in Federal Court by environmentalists to restore the salmon run in the San oquin River that has been dry for over 70 years. The snow melt was held back in a large reservore to provide irrigation water for millions of acres of orchards, vinyards, and row crops. The farmers lost this case and the water was used to restore the flow of the river. Here came the years long drought and the reservor water levels dropped and precious little water was allowed to flow into the river channel and very little water went less than 50 miles before seeping into the ground and not a drop reached for the salmon to return. Farmers lost their canal water rights, so they had to drill much deeper water wells that their current wells have been going dry. The water table is dropping every year and the land is dropping in elevation to fill in the empty space held by ground water. Then many had to abandon their crops, then their farms due to lack of irrigation water. many years have now passed ... no water in the river, no salmon run, no irrigation water, abandoned farms so no income , no work for farm laborers so many are on welfare or moved out of state, property values plumeted ( I lost half a million in property value ) , many homes in small farm towns were foreclosed upon and still stay vacant, very little water from lakes or streams is available to fight fires, all in all everyone lost and for what ?
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sorry. last year I had a scare my nephew very casually mentioned the house had no water 
My first thought was well ran dry. Turned out well pump went bad. The well repairman told me I never had to worry about well running dry, I had so much waterlook at it this way ... your city puts in water line in your town, you put in your garden and some fruit trees since now you can grow your own. Suddenly the city says you can not water your garden and your trees that you rely upon to feed you and yours for some vague reason. Just would you do ???? Some people have foot in mouth disease. The project that created the water storage lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains as well as the water delivery canals made millions of acres bloom and provided employment and affordable food to millions of people that boosted the economy of Cal. to be the 6th largest economy in the world. Look at the remains of this environmental disaster that was the result of this lawsuit now. Dead and dieing orchards and vinyards, now fallow vegetable fields that are returning to tumbleweeds, erosion of topsoil, lack of river, lake and stream water to fight raging forest and grass land range fires ( both naturally caused as well as many firebugs as well as eco- terrorists ). The lands that created employment to many people has dried up and most of them are collecting welfare checks that come out of ever increasing tax bills to the rest of the population . Peaple are moving out of Cal. in droves. It is high time to stand up to the so called and misguided " environmentalists " that advocate a world order that only exists in their own minds but not in the real world of 2018.
