Comments by "S S" (@SS-yj2le) on "The $1BN Megaproject to Save California" video.

  1.  @Hypercube9  Utah is more water isolated than Southern California is. Southern California has access to water rich California and even itself gets slightly more precipitation than Utah does. Added with benefitting from a coastline it can use de-salinization with. Salt Lake City urban area is significant. Also, no one has any right to force anyone where to live or not to live.
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  2. All of Utah is desert if all of SoCal is desert by what you say here.
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  3.  @Hypercube9 They said So Cal and parts of Utah. Implying all of SoCal is desert and parts of Utah are not? SoCal has a lot of elevated areas that get heavy snowfalls comparable to places along the Great Lakes the same way parts of Utah does as well.
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  4. I put they to distinguish it for you since you don’t seem to understand implications I put in, but was originally going for plural. No. The whole point is that the statement is wrong. Southern California has very varied topography and climates. Something that is also relevant in water management which is what is being discussed here. For straw man, the person who you thought I was talking about alone literally said that they are deserts. Also the same one who said parts of Utah are deserts rather than the whole thing like the main commenter. Also based on said phrasing, they said it was like living in a desert rather than actually living in one. Making it more open ended to what place is a desert while also still calling said places a desert. A open statement that is still a statement. You are comparing two large land areas in what is further south? What part of Southern California is farther south? For elevation, are you counting populated areas like Palmdale and Lancaster on the high desert? Most people in Utah are in Salt Lake City which is also a high desert which would mean by your own reasoning using climate and topography, most people in Utah don’t live in the mountains either as 82% of the states lives around Salt Lake City. That is just there alone not even counting places like St George who are lower elevation than even the average elevation of the whole state who I didn’t even mention. Average of California not meaning much due to how big it is and the facf that I was only talking about the south. For California’s highest point, it is higher than all of the entire continental United States. This point you made means nothing. Especially when elevation isn’t everything when it comes to temperature ranges. There are countless spots in California that are way cooler than most of Utah that span a very large area. For people living in said mountainous areas too, this means nothing when we have several aqueducts and more that have the water running out of the mountains. Though even then, we have loads of people living in the mountains here in California even if they are a small percentage of our population. While Utah has a small percentage of its population living in said mountain areas rather than high deserts. California as a whole having at least 100,000 living in the mountains rather than high desert while Utah has somewhere in the range of the same population. Even if using elevations at least 5000 feet above sea level. For the snowfall, that is completely relevant. That is literally everything here. That is where most of the water in the entire American western states and drier regions comes from. Sierra Nevada snowpack is what feeds the Central Valley farmers, the entire Colorado river basin which Utah is dependent on, and numerous water reserves in Southern California. You talk about it anything intelligent to say, but what you said here was the anti-thesis to intelligence if intelligence involves having at least the most basic understanding of where places get their water from.
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  5. We don’t drain all of it. We have countless reservoirs and more. Also, I doubt you are educated on water infrastructure to make such assessments on what my state should do.
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  6. Sacramento is below the entire coastline in quality to live with the only exception being Oakland.
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  7. &gaylord2726 If that is the case, then everywhere outside California in the US is fourth level in comparison. Many places in Mexico are probably better than half of the United States outside California.
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