One of the regrettable things of living in the Midwest is that everyone shits their pants whenever someone outside the Midwest hints they want Great Lakes water. The Southwest isn't just a thousand miles away, but it's also uphill. Not only would we have to build the pipelines, but we'd have to build power plants along the way to support this. /rant
@Frankenbeans I'll take those rants every time. It's important. We'd be destroying ecosystems, and askers don't seem to realize or care about that.
@jason Every drought in another part of the country always provokes someone living there to start talking about taking Great Lakes water. And, when that happens, everyone in the Great Lakes region gets their collective dander up.
@jason In between droughts, however, they are happy to squander water on no end to silliness. People in the Great Lakes are the living embodiment of that fat cat who uses $100 to light cigars while the poor scrape up crumbs beneath the table. /rant
@Frankenbeans fair enough.
@jason Sorry, been following this issue pretty closely for two decades. I can whip up an extended rant at the drop of a hat.
@Frankenbeans no problem. I lived in Michigan for 17 years and even supported the Alliance for the Great Lakes, so the concerns usually aren't far from my mind.
@jason Minnesotan right now, correct? Thems your Great Lakes, too. Plus, you've got those other 9,999 lakes in your state that aren't Superior.
@Frankenbeans yeah, but old Michigan me wants to remind current Minnesota me about the Great Lakes coastline differences between the two :wink:
@jason Or the differences between lakes. I'm a Huron man, with its rocks and lichen, rather than Lake Michigan's sandy beaches.
@jason Do you live close to it? I am in the middle of Michigan.
@Frankenbeans I'm in the Twin Cities, so ~2 hours away. When I was in Michigan I was west, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. I grew up near Chicago, so the Great Lakes are a part of my DNA.
@Frankenbeans Yep. Lake Superior is my heart, so this has been a good move.