Obviously they hadn't discovered golf

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For some reason, I love this comment in The Oil Drum:

The Hohokam people abandoned most of their settlements during the period between 1350 and 1450. It is thought that the Great Drought (1276–99), combined with a subsequent period of sparse and unpredictable rainfall that persisted until approximately 1450, contributed to this process.

Obviously they hadn’t discovered golf--if you want to find water in Phoenix, just go to the nearest 18-hole course with a big sponge and suck some agua out of the moist grass.

My brother lived in Phoenix for a few years, but went back to the Chicago area. It is a special place. The weather there is just unbelievable, as far as heat goes. It is also amusing how they refer to places where there is very seldom any water at all as “rivers.”