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Following up a little on the drought discussion that Jason Winders got going, there's a pretty interesting comment on his blog regarding yards and landscaping being a luxury.

It's tough to sort out the whole landscaping/nursery/ornamental issue on this because, arguably, that's a way of life for some folks and a ban means they can't do something which puts food on the table. However, I do agree that it's a luxury, and I do agree that we've reached a point where some sort of emergency measures needed to take place. It's unfortunate but necessary.

Ultimately, you have to figure that we're now a little more than five weeks away from not being able to tap into the Bear Creek Reservoir anymore and there's no relief in sight. Without trying to sound overly dramatic, this is a historic drought, and we're on the verge of entering into unchartered waters, er, territory with this thing.

Back in June when we were debating this, we discussed in hypotheticals about water running out and everyone, including myself, said that wouldn't happen. Well, hell, it might ...

Then what?