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Perhaps in the future water will more valuable than oil and water instead will be pumped from wet locations to dry ones.

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Already is in some places I think.

Hi TC, Durban is the exception in South Africa with winter going down to about 14deg C minimum with a max of about 26deg C. Most other places in the country get colder but nothing like Candian style winters. Durban is warm enough that the country's premier surfing competition is held in the middle of winter - July.

Dang, you guys are more tropical than we are (I'm in inland central FL.)
Winter we can definitely get down below freezing though that usually only happens overnight and normally only one or two times per winter. Over on the coasts it is normally more mild but freezes still happen unless you are in South Florida. Summer heat can be mitigated a little because of the water but that simply means yea maybe not quite as HOT as in the desert but it just feels worse because sweating doesn't help cool you off and you simply feel soggy (same goes for the plants I guess.)
Swamp coolers don't work in a swamp I've been in a greenhouse in the high desert before and standing in the air flow by the evaporative cooling pads, it was actually a little chilly?!?!?! In FL you need actual AC to feel that! (I worked in some outdoor theatres that put in huge swamp coolers, only allowed because they were "temporary" and it was sort of effective the first season because of a severe drought that year Florida had all the wild fires but really they were about as effective as good fans.)

Keep your eyes off my Great Lakes! They're already pumping enough of our water out for bottled water...

29' in one month. Wow, that is our annual rain in a good year.

I hope you actually meant 29 inches " instead of 29 feet '
Though there are some places who have been having severe flooding this year I still don't think they got 29 feet of rain in one month. There are plenty of places that would flood if they just got 20 inches of rain over a few week period.

Who got the 29 inches of rain? I have no idea what our rain totals are actually. I know it has been a wetter year this year that many we have had but my location tends to stay relatively dry compared to the surrounding areas.

TC I think he was responding to my comment above about my dad in Lakeland saying they had 29 inches of rain in July...

Ah, ok. had fallen off the page and I couldn't figure it out LOL.

I hope you actually meant 29 inches " instead of 29 feet '

Yes indeed, I did mean 29 inches. We don't use imperial measurements here any more (since 1976) so I am excusing myself for using wrong notation chuckle chuckle.
Yes Rininger85, I was referring to your dad in Lakeland (and I can see how come Lakeland gets it's name LOL).

Dang been a while since I stopped in.
We are still here!!!!!!!!

Wow! Good to know you're still there. Hope you're all well TC.

Still Farming. We are well. Been staying really isolated for the most part.

Yeah I understand. I live in New Zealand now so we haven't experienced the really heavy side of COVID. We've had a few lockdowns but really minor compared to what many other countries are going through. Have 0 cases at the moment so we move freely, only international travel is still an issue.

Go well and good to hear from you.

Martin.

Hey TCLynx! Glad you and the family are well.

How are farm sells going for you during Covid? Hopefully well!

Martin. That is amazing! Zero cases! Wow! I can only imagine that!

We are down, vaccines seem to be working, at 5.2 per thousand I believe.

Hang in there guys! This can't last forever.