End of the road for Lake Mead??

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Your post perfectly made the point my "stupid" post does. Your comments show you prefer everything just so to the freedom to do with your house what you want.

You have not seen what I have seen in the hassles that they can cause when you want a mortgage. Another problem is that in many places it is de facto impossible to buy new construction without an HOA due to state laws. As to the "hidden rules" well they can just add rules in most cases. Again, if you like lots of rules, have at it. To me the whole HOA culture feels like East Germany. Gotta give up your rights for "the common good" which in an HOA means things like all the homes have to have the same blandness. "Property value" is the reason they give. I do guess it is easier to paint when someone tells you what color you can use. I have even heard of HOAs where you have to buy the "approved" paint from the HOA!

The Karen life is not for me.

My last house was in an HOA but my current one is not. I never really had a problem with the HOA but I also read the guidelines before purchasing. For the $11 a month I paid I was happy because they took care of the common areas and the park.. I had a friend paying $440 a month for his HOA and I would not have done that.
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Some do not cause a ton of hassle, others are run by Karen and Chad who think they are dictators. The problem is in any organization like an HOA the types that want to micromanage will always eventually get power and then will eventually abuse it. To me it is saying that federal rules, state rules, county rules, and local rules are not enough for you so you pay someone to enforce even more rules. For all that, is it really an issue if your neighbor's mailbox is different than all the others?

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For all that, is it really an issue if your neighbor's mailbox is different than all the others?

i would say it depends. If it has a political sticker on it, burn it down and the house too. I originally used an orange politicians name and didn't want this to be a reason for me to be suspended.

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For all that, is it really an issue if your neighbor's mailbox is different than all the others?

i would say it depends. If it has a political sticker on it, burn it down and the house too. I originally used an orange politicians name and didn't want this to be a reason for me to be suspended.
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That would be a federal offense.

Gulp. Quite a hijack we baddies have done. I think that the next technological advancement/implementation will be of figuring out a way to effectively save the massive rainfall/snowfall events’ water more effectively.
I mean, they can literally turn off Niagara Falls.

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Gulp. Quite a hijack we baddies have done. I think that the next technological advancement/implementation will be of figuring out a way to effectively save the massive rainfall/snowfall events’ water more effectively.
I mean, they can literally turn off Niagara Falls.
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They cannot turn it off, merely divert it. I hear the USA side is due to be shut off again soon. Will be a trip I make to see that. But I think they save it fairly well. The issue is where it has to go. And the biggie there is CA Ag. Inland CA is kind of farming in a desert at the moment. One has to drive thru it to really experience it. At the state line on the CA side is lush agriculture. Literally across the street is desert. Some of these fields are the supply to the entire world for those crops.

We will get wet years again. I still say that it is a matter of cycles that we do not know how long they are.

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Gulp. Quite a hijack we baddies have done. I think that the next technological advancement/implementation will be of figuring out a way to effectively save the massive rainfall/snowfall events’ water more effectively.
I mean, they can literally turn off Niagara Falls.
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They cannot turn it off, merely divert it. I hear the USA side is due to be shut off again soon. Will be a trip I make to see that. But I think they save it fairly well. The issue is where it has to go. And the biggie there is CA Ag. Inland CA is kind of farming in a desert at the moment. One has to drive thru it to really experience it. At the state line on the CA side is lush agriculture. Literally across the street is desert. Some of these fields are the supply to the entire world for those crops.

We will get wet years again. I still say that it is a matter of cycles that we do not know how long they are.
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I consider diverting the water elsewhere ‘turning Niagara Falls off’. So, YES, they can ‘turn it off’! If they do it again I will of course go to see it! I haven’t heard anything suggesting such…. but maybe I’m not listening in the right arenas….

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Gulp. Quite a hijack we baddies have done. I think that the next technological advancement/implementation will be of figuring out a way to effectively save the massive rainfall/snowfall events’ water more effectively.
I mean, they can literally turn off Niagara Falls.
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They cannot turn it off, merely divert it. I hear the USA side is due to be shut off again soon. Will be a trip I make to see that. But I think they save it fairly well. The issue is where it has to go. And the biggie there is CA Ag. Inland CA is kind of farming in a desert at the moment. One has to drive thru it to really experience it. At the state line on the CA side is lush agriculture. Literally across the street is desert. Some of these fields are the supply to the entire world for those crops.

We will get wet years again. I still say that it is a matter of cycles that we do not know how long they are.
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I consider diverting the water elsewhere ‘turning Niagara Falls off’. So, YES, they can ‘turn it off’! If they do it again I will of course go to see it! I haven’t heard anything suggesting such…. but maybe I’m not listening in the right arenas….
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I have heard they are thinking on it from people up there.

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I don't know why people think manicured lawns and all the landscaping involved is such a great thing.
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I live on the border of a suburban and rural area and there are some properties that make me scratch my head. This one is right in the middle of a bunch of farms and horse stables but they themselves do no farming. Their whole 5+ acre yard is mowed grass with a couple of trees near the house. If it were my house I would replant so many trees you couldn't see the house from the road.

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I don't know why people think manicured lawns and all the landscaping involved is such a great thing.
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I live on the border of a suburban and rural area and there are some properties that make me scratch my head. This one is right in the middle of a bunch of farms and horse stables but they themselves do no farming. Their whole 5+ acre yard is mowed grass with a couple of trees near the house. If it were my house I would replant so many trees you couldn't see the house from the road.
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Some people want the house not the neighborhood. Trees are tricky. The house next door to where I grew up was the cat lady and front yard full of trees. In person it always looked awful, half as many trees would be better. But it was mostly pine trees which may have been part of it.

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Residents of Mexico City Are on the Brink of 'Day Zero' Disaster as Water Sources Fall to Historic Lows

Mexico City is the fifth largest city in the world, with more than 22 million residents. Now, the grand metropolis and every single one of those residents is in trouble.

Mexico City is dangerously close to “Day Zero,” otherwise known as the day the city runs out of water. In fact, some experts say that if it doesn’t rain soon (and a lot), that day may only be a week away.

Realistically, Mexico City needs substantial and consistent rainfall over the coming months in order to provide sufficient water to its millions of residents this summer.
However, while rain would help in the immediate crisis, many experts argue that a rainy few months is not nearly enough to save Mexico City from running out of water.

In addition to rainfall, Mexico City desperately needs to invest in its water infrastructure if it wants to completely solve the ongoing water crisis. Water for Mexico City needs to travel along an 8,000-mile-long grid before it reaches the taps, and these pipes are far from well-maintained.
In fact, some experts say that leaks in Mexico City’s pipes cause 35% of the water pumped through them to be lost along the way. Therefore, residents of the city are begging their government to invest in and fix the infrastructure, but the government simply doesn’t want to spend billions of dollars on leaky pipes.

According to the National Water Commission, nearly 68% of Mexico is currently experiencing moderate to extreme drought. So, water scarcity is certainly a big topic within the country’s government. But residents are extremely disappointed in their so-called conservation plans.

Former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador repeatedly told Mexico that Day Zero would never happen, even as they watched the Cutzamala run dry. He insisted that new wells were being dug and that he was working to bring water into Mexico City from the country. But when he was voted out in June 2024, Mexico City residents had yet to see any of these plans come to fruition.

On June 3, 2024, Mexico collectively elected its first-ever female president, Claudia Sheinbaum. However, it’s unlikely that the new president will make any real changes to the former president’s plan.
President Sheinbaum served as secretary of the then-mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and then became mayor herself from 2018 to 2023. She is widely considered López Obrador’s “protégée” and has staunchly defended his response to the water shortage.

Exactly when Mexico City will run out of water is still up for debate. There are some, like the former president and the new president, who believe Day Zero will never actually come. However, the vast majority of experts disagree.
In fact, some say that if the great metropolis doesn’t see a significant amount of rain this week, Day Zero could arrive as early as June 26, 2024. Of course, there will still be some water for Mexico City residents, but they will be forced to conserve and have strict water schedules for the rest of the summer and maybe even the rest of the year.



One poster said Mexico City gets afternoon storms daily from July to November but it's blazing hot at noon. So there could be a turn of events shortly. Other news reports say parts of the city have run dry for months already. Water has to be trucked in and cisterns are being filled. A travel video had a comment that the hotel they stayed at had no water with no explanation and the local bars had no water, and that was a couple weeks ago. They transferred to a Hilton and got water. You've got to be a first class traveler to get water I guess.
I'm just reminded of some movie where a civil war breaks out on some American tourists in a foreign country stuck in a hotel and the whole country goes into lockdown as chaos reigns in the streets. Don't expect survivors.