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[Nparker]

Only 60 days until Stage 1 of the Water Conservation Bylaw comes into effect again. 

[Mike K.]

I watched a documentary yesterday from 1992 about The Canadian, a train route that runs from Toronto to Vancouver.

The documentary described multiple stops along the route including Kamloops, where the narrator said heightened summer drought conditions in the Pacific Northwest make farming irrigation an issue. So presumably these drought conditions stem from the 80s, or even the 70s.

Remember that when someone tells you “we’ve been experiencing summer drought conditions over the last several years, and must act now,” followed by something that will cost you money, and accompanied by rhetoric that ultra-recent climate change is the culprit behind our long, dry summers that apparently never existed prior to 2010, but which we all know as normal from our childhood years in this region.

The documentary is The Great Canadian Train Ride and is on Prime. It features great footage of Canadian cities, including Victoria at the very end of the documentary. One fact it states is the Empress was built in anticipation of the railway barging cars to Victoria as Vancouver didn’t exist when the line was completed. What’s odd is it never mentions the E&N Dayliner. But I digress.

[Mike K.]

2mm of rain fell at the reservoir between the 18-24th.

Schoolnet recorded 9.5mm in Shawnigan Lake (closest Schoolnet recording location to the reservoir) and 4.5-5mm at the West Highlands Fire Hall. Sooke saw the same as the hall via the station at Journey.

[mbjj]

Why are we not allowed to water our lawns when it's convenient for us, but condos and apartments are constantly power washing entire parking lots?

[GetLisaSomeHelps]

Why are we not allowed to water our lawns when it's convenient for us, but condos and apartments are constantly power washing entire parking lots?

You can power wash your driveway every single day if you so choose and multi-unit residential building have the same lawn watering rules.

 

edit: you didn't hear it from me but your lawn doesn't need much watering each week. water on a night of the week that works for you and by the time bylaw responds to the call it will be dry...sorry your neighbours aren't reasonable people if they are calling CRD Bylaw on you if you're only watering once or twice a week.

Edited by GetLisaSomeHelps, 27 May 2020 - 03:04 PM.

[Nparker]

Why the CRD's automatic watering restrictions are a political ploy and nothing more.

 

https://www.crd.bc.c...vrsn=cadd31cc_2

[mbjj]

We usually put out a yogurt tub so we can measure the amount of water. We've tried to let it go dormant in past summers, but by September it's nothing but weeds.

[Victoria Watcher]

some homeless guy took 3.5 baths a day at comfort inn.

does he get a fine?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 May 2020 - 06:04 PM.

[GetLisaSomeHelps]

some homeless guy took 3.5 baths a day at comfort inn.

does he get a fine?

Lol

[Matt R.]

I watched a documentary yesterday from 1992 about The Canadian, a train route that runs from Toronto to Vancouver.
The documentary described multiple stops along the route including Kamloops, where the narrator said heightened summer drought conditions in the Pacific Northwest make farming irrigation an issue. So presumably these drought conditions stem from the 80s, or even the 70s.
Remember that when someone tells you “we’ve been experiencing summer drought conditions over the last several years, and must act now,” followed by something that will cost you money, and accompanied by rhetoric that ultra-recent climate change is the culprit behind our long, dry summers that apparently never existed prior to 2010, but which we all know as normal from our childhood years in this region.
The documentary is The Great Canadian Train Ride and is on Prime. It features great footage of Canadian cities, including Victoria at the very end of the documentary. One fact it states is the Empress was built in anticipation of the railway barging cars to Victoria as Vancouver didn’t exist when the line was completed. What’s odd is it never mentions the E&N Dayliner. But I digress.

Kamloops is the desert, isn’t it?

Matt.

[Mike K.]

Kamloops is, but the rain commentary was about the Pacific Northwest in general.

[todd]

some homeless guy took 3.5 baths a day at comfort inn.
does he get a fine?

It could’ve been six on the first day we don’t know: https://www.vicnews....life-in-hotels/

That’s just bad for your skin.

[tanker]

Kamloops is, but the rain commentary was about the Pacific Northwest in general.

Dry summers are completely ordinary here. It's happened pretty much every year for my whole life just like it rains for 6-8 months. The weird years are the ones where it rains all summer.

[Mike K.]

We usually put out a yogurt tub so we can measure the amount of water. We've tried to let it go dormant in past summers, but by September it's nothing but weeds.

A healthy green lawn also helps cool your home in the summer by keeping the area around it cool.

[Matt R.]

If you ever get tired of watering your lawn, just install a septic field.

Matt.

[mbjj]

Also if I'm going to the trouble and work to have a nice display of colonial flowers, I think a green lawn helps set them off and you're right, it keeps the yard cool. Isn't the climate here classified as modified Mediterranean? Dry summer is pretty normal.

[Rob Randall]

Trump today: "So shower heads, you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You wanna wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out. What do you do? Do you stand there longer or take a shower longer?.. Dishwashers you didn’t have any water... In most places of the country, water is not a problem. They don’t know what do with it. It’s called rain."

Edited by Rob Randall, 16 July 2020 - 01:33 PM.

[Nparker]

Can I have my dressing on the side of that word salad?

[mbjj]

Ya, what's it all mean?

 

My husband now waters our lawn when it's convenient for us. It's his little bit of civic rebellion. He says, no other laws are being adhered to.

[Mike K.]

The reservoirs overflowed for months this year. Water away.