I guess a few things come to mind.

I watched a Sierra Club idiot say the same stupid shit last night. There's nothing like a smug, I told you so, treehugger declaring that these people had it coming because they built their houses on top of nature to make you want to vomit.

1. Why would anyone in Mass. care where California gets it's water.

2. States sell the water so that California's farms can grow the FOOD that everyone in this country eats. You dont like it? Try growing shit in the snow. We also need the water because people from all over the country keep coming here. We can't stop them and they have to live. I guess it's not a bad idea using the water to keep people alive in a state that people want to live in instead of it sitting there doing nothing out in the middle of nowhere.

3. Aspen, Tahoe, Mammoth, Big Bear and countless other resorts exist all over the country. Do you suggest that all ski resorts should be uninhabited? Or just that anyone that chooses to live in one deserves to have their house burned down by an arsonist?

4. You obviously haven't been to California and if you did you didn't pay much attention. California has probably the most diverse topography of any state in the country. Los Angeles is pretty much a desert. The desert is boardered by mountains on one side and the ocean on the other. The mountains, in this case the Big Bear/Arrowhead area get snow. There's also a pretty damn big lake in Big bear. It's not very deserty up at 10k feet in the snow.

Don't you have a hurricane to chase somewhere?