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    Ok, ok brainstorming time.

    A large sheet is created. It covers the US with cutouts for Cali, Florida, other southern states.

    Then, during the winter season we use guy wires to tilt it to the states that have the cutout holes. Easy Peasy.

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    I wonder what clouds tastes like?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    What? We have about a million ranchers and farmers up here who would pull rifles if someone tried to tell them that
    Its a true nanny state here, they have a rule/tax for everything






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    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    Its a true nanny state here, they have a rule/tax for everything
    Yeah but the rule occurs in a state devastated by drought and obvious water shortages. If the average joe doesn't collect rain water, who does?

    Right up there with - Don't breath too deeply in Montana, air is at a premium ffs

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    Yeah but the rule occurs in a state devastated by drought and obvious water shortages. If the average joe doesn't collect rain water, who does?

    Right up there with - Don't breath too deeply in Montana, air is at a premium ffs
    Everyone in charge here is a fuckin idiot






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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    Yeah but the rule occurs in a state devastated by drought and obvious water shortages. If the average joe doesn't collect rain water, who does?

    Right up there with - Don't breath too deeply in Montana, air is at a premium ffs
    Until the law was changed here, it was spelled right out, you do not own the water that falls on your property, it belonged to the city/county/state.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Until the law was changed here, it was spelled right out, you do not own the water that falls on your property, it belonged to the city/county/state.
    Wow...I could write a movie about that.

    The government actually claims to own precipitation derived from clouds...from nature itself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    Wow...I could write a movie about that.

    The government actually claims to own precipitation derived from clouds...from nature itself.

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    While people die and crops fail

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    I bet lobbying by the water company was behind that.


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    Looks like in 2012 they passed and ACT to allow you to collect rainwater off your roof. Still crazy it was even a rule






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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    We jest but if someone could figure a way to collect and shunt all of the snow from across the country and send it south to Cali...

    I'm envisioning large fiberglass tubing systems like at waterparks


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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    Ok, ok brainstorming time.

    A large sheet is created. It covers the US with cutouts for Cali, Florida, other southern states.

    Then, during the winter season we use guy wires to tilt it to the states that have the cutout holes. Easy Peasy.
    Just have to find a way to tilt the flat earth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pony View Post
    The Hal-9000 pipeline?



    Just have to find a way to tilt the flat earth.
    Yes and no

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pony View Post
    Just have to find a way to tilt the flat earth.
    Have everyone go stand on one side?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Have everyone go stand on one side?
    Maybe that's why Cali is so dry. They need to reduce the populations in China and Japan.

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