Yet, nearly everyone in Salt Lake City appears to be watering their (extremely large, extremely green) lawn like there's an infinite source of water. 🤔
I'm pretty sure the monthly water budget for the typical residential lawns I saw being watered there last week exceeds the yearly usage of my entire household in California.
Walking through the neighborhood, most with vast green lawns, except 1 single house with a brown lawn and a sign from slowtheflow.org
Satellite moisture index over some of Utah's suburban neighborhoods... dense, dense blue. (because of those lawns)
Parts of Salt Lake City, UT vs. Simi Valley, CA (Sentinel-2 #satellite, Moisture Index).
Conversation overheard in a plane about the Great Salt Lake/water situation: "Oh, I think we'll fill the Great Salt Lake again by piping water from the Pacific Ocean, I hear they are already working on that." 🙄
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neighbors (want) "answers about what’s being done to prevent another flood, after their homes went underwater for the second time in five years."
"There’s a $10 million plan that was drafted after Hurricane Irma in 2017 to address flooding...", however, the "county says this plan would still be limited and it wouldn’t prevent the kinds of flood Orlo Vista saw during Ian."
Repair cost for a broken extension cord: $3 to $8 depending on the amp rating/quality of the new plug. #DIY
It's literally a 2 minute operation to fix something like this, I just put two different ends on this to create two new extension cords.
Family member 1: "Throw that away! Just go buy a new one"
Family member 2: "Hmm, you should throw that in the trash and buy a new one"
Me: "WHAT?!?! It's so easy to fix these!"
(obviously, I am the handy/DIY person in this part of the family)