If you are in the Ozarks, tornados slide down into a canyon, one side
rubs against the canyon walls, and they just unwind. Tornado alley is
down on the delta.

One possibility for CA is to split off the north. Where the water is.
Then turn off the water. Everyone in the south will leave. I read its
become trendy for the rich to buy land in the north for wineries; in my
neck of Ozark woods, its hobby farms, mostly cattle and horses. But
either in CA or AR, these people have money and clout, and will see
their own best interest served by keeping out illegals.

The world record brown trout, 52 lb, came out of the Little Red just 15
miles from me. The power elites come from all over to do fly fishing as
a result. So, the Army corps of engineers is ASSIDUOUS in protecting the
watersheds to keep the fishing good. You can not only swim in the creek
water here, you can drink it.

Well, because the environment is protected, this draws young couples who
are smart enuf to know that's important for healthy kids. Organic farms
and truck farms are springing up also, in part cause its so much more
expensive now to ship produce from CA. I'll be putting my green house
back up soon, and there's lotsa others who have them to extend the
growing season. I've had fresh tomatoes for thanxgiving. Will be having
greens= collards, mustard, turnips, all winter long, and with a mulch,
even keep them going outside.

Greenhouses are going to give CA some serious produce competition. And,
they wont be hiring illegals. Combined with organic methods and soil,
the food will be a lot healthier and customers will loose weight on it.

Everyone knows it gets over 100 in Little Rock; but 100 miles north,
under the forest canopy at my place, it topped out at 84. Down in the
canyons, at 80, with summer morning lows in the 50's. You dont need AC,
and with electric rates rising, that's a big deal.

But no telling what Global Warming will do. AR & OK have been dry in the
summer, but now, monsoonal rains are coming North out of TX and LA, and
of course we saw a lotta rain as hurricanes came in. Farmers are
grateful; they'll get 3 good cuttings of hay up here. If the trees get
enuf rain, then the canopy dont dry out, and the transpiration keeps the
forest cool, albeit humid.

I read CA had a 3,000,000,000$ deficit. Part of the surplus in AR is the
sales taxes on real estate to all the upscale flatlanders buying hobby
farms, and part is from the Fayetteville Shale gas field. Which now puts
out 1%% of the total USA natural gas. There are ads in the paper, and I
get calls to sell my mineral rights.

There is a certain amount of oil dissolved in the gas, which condenses
out when its compressed for the pipelines. We see the tanker trucks all
the time, and that traffic is tearing up the roads build only to haul
farm equipment. Part of the surplus plus increased gas taxes will pay
for road repairs. But the message is not lost on some of us, that if the
Untied States of Denial dissolves, that between the hydro, gas, and oil,
we will have enuf energy to run our own economy without foreign oil.

And after serving so many tours in Iraq, the National Guard'll be very
happy to stay here to make sure we get to do that with it. Many here
also know the Chinese eat Arkansan rice and soybeans. *WE* dont have a
trade deficit.

I dont imagine that Arkansas is the only option for those like you who
see CA is a lost cause. But those other options, like Arkansas, are very
obscure. If they were not, they'd be over crowded already. But you havta
do the research before you vote with your feet. or U-haul. Jared Diamond
noted people buying land in his Bitterroot valley and putting up the
usual McMansions, but then finding out mining operations polluted all
the aquifers. You cant even water the garden with it.

There are places on the Gulf Coast where a mere 20 foot of elevation
means the diff between whether your house is there after a storm. Pines
go up like torches once a brush fire gets going, but- not hardwoods. For
some years now, the Forest Service has burned off the brush deliberately
in the Ozarks, which incidentally lets understory grasses grow, which is
good for deer and elk hunting.

They do this every spring and fall, when everyone knows it'll rain in a
few days and put it out. I dunno why they cant figure that out in CA.

There is a curious exception in SE Europe. In the flood plains of the
rivers that empty into the West end of the Black Sea, people lived in
communal houses in villages and towns from 8000-4000 BC. Reeemarkable:

Soil cores show they farmed the same land with crop rotation for 4000
years without destroying the fertility.

Bone middens show the species diversity when they arrived, and see that
when they left, all those same species were still there. no extinctions.

Down thru 4000 years of occupation levels, no sign of warfare. But a
village founded in 8000 BC was still a village in 4000 BC. Towns were
never more than 20,000. The populations were stable.

How did they do this? No marriage. They lived polyamorously. No woman
had a duty to produce heirs, so they only produced enuf kids to keep the
economy going. Many plants in this ecosystem evolved a defense against
herbivores from developing a taste for them. They caused sterility and
abortions. There's a reason "Bachelor Button" is so named, wny "Blessed
Thistle" was blessed, and what Queen Anne loved about her lace.

Everyone had enuf to eat, the men got all the pussy they wanted, so
there was no war.