Stormin Mormon wrote, on Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:06:14 -0400:
And that sounds like excellent idea. I have a gut
sense this is more of a retirement community.
Danny,anyone in your area going to work every
day like PR's friend?
Well, there are all types. For example, the woman who ran
out of water just divorced from her husband about two years ago,
and she got the house and kids so she's actually renting her
additional cottage on the property to another ex homeowner
who lost his home down the street to the bank. So, she's
not retured.
Yet, others own multiple companies, and the only ones going
up and down the hill are their landscapers and repairmen.
The majority are independently wealthy (except me, as I've
retired, but I may have to reconsider my options), but
some are people who have been here for 40 years, and they
must have bought when prices were less than a million so
their taxes aren't killing them like mine are killing me!
I just got an update from the divorced lady. She is
contracting out to get her rather shallow (only 300 feet)
well drilled deeper. The next in line is a lady whose
husband recently died, and her house is under foreclosure.
Her well (as is mine) is tripping every few minutes, so,
she's conserving water (as am I) and hoping the water supply
lasts until the next forcasted rain (which will come in
October or November).
As for me, I filled the pool, so, "my" supply, while intermittent,
was good enough to last, but, there are vineyards here which
must be using a LOT of water ... so it may simply be a matter
of location.
I don't know, but, for me, and for those without the ready
capital to drill deeper, I'd go for the temporary solution of
trucking the water up the hill.
The sloshing tipping over the truck seems to me to be a very
real concern that I hadn't considered, because, there is no
guardrail, and you're going down a slope that doesn't end
for thousands of vertical feet, so, it would behoove us to
better understand the sloshing effect on a pickup truck filled
with a 1,000 gallons of water in a tank.