Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 12, 2022

Don’t let anyone dive off of the diving board with no water, you’ll get sued!Plus it’s probably is the Southwest.

Wow, they actually found a lifeguard, considering the shortage.

I had a great job as a lifeguard until some blue kid got me fired.

This is actually more dangerous, especially with people walking around staring at their cell phones.

I recall flying into some southwestern city and being pretty impressed at all the houses with swimming pools passing below me. I wonder if they still fill them all up these days.

Oddly enough, it’s not the lack of water but rather the lack of pool guards that have closed countless public pools this year, the supply of lifeguards dwindled for several reasons (Covid being just one of them). https://www.npr.org/2022/06/05/1102951892/nationwide-lifeguard-shortage-affects-third-of-pools

Well, that takes the fun out of playing Marco Polo. On the other hand, there’s little need to worry about pee in the pool.

Just don’t push Teddy in….

If they ordered their water on Amazon Prime, it would’ve arrived in 3-5 business days with free shipping.

Fill the pools with empty plastic containers, something like the plastic ball bins at Chuckie Cheese. Or would that be a possible “drowning” hazard?

guess it is time for everyone to realise that water doesn’t grow on trees.

In a related cartoon… https://img.ifunny.co/images/06a5b540aad61a714f64c291f2a8b9ec2b372e61c01fa0bd05224c2df3ab85ff_1.webp

I could say something like, “They could solve the problem by having a spitting contest,” but that would be too gross.

Schadenfreude: pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. This ’toon would have been funny in the 1960s but not so much now. Google: Great Salt Lake drying up. Google: Lake Oroville Water Level.

Wiley kids. Love ’em! Very cute little guy sitting on the bottom reading a book or something – only thing left to do … BTW we know a lot about droughts here in the land of Oz, so I sympathise greatly – hurry the downpour!

My brother once lived in a building in NJ where they had a pool w/ no water

Out in the " West " they better figure out how to make ( fresh water out of the Ocean ) and soon !

I thought there was a national shortage of life guards in the USA?

Good place to skateboard

I live on the edge of the only european desert, we never have water shortages, even when the population triples in the summer.

A Wiley sign of things to come. If we don’t get our collective act together (climate, population, grossly uneven distribution of money/resources etc) we will be fighting wars over water.

Most likely a California pool…oh wait…there’s a lifeguard!

Opposite problem recently at my residential complex. Last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the safety contractor couldn’t send a lifeguard due to staff shortage, so the community pool had to close.

And California decided to kill the trucking industry in their state

Some empty pools make for some good skate boarding.

I don’t see anyone from the SW chiming in. Is the water shortage affecting daily life?

It is puzzling how the global warming is melting the polar regions and the oceans are rising with weather going crazy and we still can’t get enough water.

If ERCOT was responsible for the water supply in Texas.

Around here it is just the opposite. Water but a shortage of life guards. Believe it of NOT!

Lots of public pools can’t find lifeguards this year.

Wonder where Wiley calls home? Here in New England, a lot of public pools are closed due to lack of lifeguards. That drives kids to water, that’s not supervised. That seldom ends well.

When your supply chain includes the Colorado RIver and the worst drought in a century …

Texas?

Out in Coney Island and The Jersey Shore,they’ve been importing teenagers from Scandinavia to be lifeguards for years.

For some reason,the job doesn’t appeal to American teens.

Plenty of water here but beaches and pools are closed due to life guard shortage.

Some of Frank Luntz’s focus groups a few decades back revealed that the phrase “global warming” sounded scary to people, but “climate change” wasn’t so much; more like “yeah, yeah, weather tomoro’s gonna be a bit different than today, so what?”. So promptly all the Republicans, plutocrats, and right-wingers adopted the less worrisome wording, and the clueless Dems just went along with the flow. Well, time to turn the tables. I’m abandoning “climate change” and hereafter going with “climate crisis”. You should, too!

NO DIVING

A sign of things already here.

Lake Meade also- – this is real folks.

This is that weird recurring dream that so many swimmers have. You get to the pool to do laps and it’s either empty or drained to about 10" deep. I used to hang out on a swimming forum and mentioned this dream. It was amazing how many other people chimed in to say “Hey, I get that one as well!”

To solve a problem, you don’t have to like the answer, just accept it. I can fix the climate, get rid of pollution, unemployment and most if not all the worlds problems. Simple. Reduce the population by 90%. 700 million is more than enough to maintain and most likely improve our current level of society. You want the species to continue for some reason ? This does that. Science is not, can not come up with some magical solution to unlimited breeding. Face the facts.

Jon Arbuckle knows how to throw a pool party!

Around here, it would be filled up with just a couple days worth of rainfall.

I’d be more concerned about the shortage of lifeguards than water. https://news.yahoo.com/americas-lifeguard-shortage-explained-095212452.html