Drought? What Drought? How the 'Amber Alert' Is Now the 'Drought Alert'

 Originally was supposed to post in October 2015

If you live in California, then you are more than aware of the state of emergency we are facing with our massive drought. Thus, the reason I haven't been on my blog post for over a year. Shame on me. Well, I have been dried up. I mean, literally, dried up. The drought got so bad that it affected my writing capabilities, and so much more that is entailed with writing - like researching, and sense of humor. Yes, that was the worst of how the drought has affected me, my sense of humor. It's been nearly dried up to where no recycling program could make me into something more useful and inspiring.

With that said, I am attempting to resurrect my WTG Blog with starting off this year, or rather, ending this year with what has been widely known to all of California kind ... Folks- we are in a drought. Now, if you didn't know it by reading the newspaper - if you can actually find a newspaper - or by watching the daily news, or perhaps when you dined at a restaurant, you may have read their sign that they are trying to do their part and are only serving water upon request - so if you ask for water, you had better drink it. And you may have noticed that the cities are not watering their grass these days, so when you drive down the road you see massive old chia-pet looking grass with a sign that says: "Doing Our Part To Conserve Water" - Nice. Well, if all of that has still left you completely clueless about our California drought, then if you drive on the freeways you might have seen a lit sign overhead in the form of what we typically call an "Amber Alert" displaying: "Serious Drought Help Save Water".  This campaign was launched last year as part of the "Statewide Educational Campaign". So there you have it, that is if you haven't already had it, by now.

I mean, for the last four years, give or take a few months off in between, I have written on how we can do our part to conserve water.  But here's another step you can take. If you happen to see some water gushing from say a broken sprinkler, it's not a water show, or from a fire hydrant as though  it's fighting a fire without a fireman, then you can report this wasteful overflow anonymously at:

 http://savewater.ca.gov/

And you are doing your part and being a water saving hero.  You might now have known just how helpful you could be, so don't drive by and think to yourself, "Someone else will report it." or " Someone else must have already reported it." Remember the very import lesson that you learned from that Gilligan Island episode about ASSUME. Makes an ass-u-me. So there's that ...