The drought...ugh!

[thewrench]

I'm kinda surprised nobody has started this thread before.

Anyway, saw this article, and there were so many inaccuracies and so much bias it got me fired up enough to post it:

New York Times Article


The first problem I have is the second paragraph, "And life, for the most part, has gone on just as before." Just give me a break. Really? Because last summer I could water my lawn and wash my car.

Also, I have a question, if the Corps of Engineers says they must continue, maybe increase, the flow out of Lanier to comply with the law (presumably the Endangered Species Act), when they actually drain the lake so far that there is no flow, will they be charged with breaking that law and someone in charge be arrested? Shouldn't they have managed the flow earlier and better so that there would be at least some water flowing. Because I'm thinking some water flowing is better than none.

OK, now discuss...

 

[autoxes]

I see...you must have listening to Neal Boortz this month. lol. Lets go kill some mollusks!

 

[aMaff]

no joke. It's pretty much ridiculous...

 

[thewrench]

Well, if Lanier runs to dead pool, then they're gonna die anyway. (shrug)

 

[aMaff]

Well, if Lanier runs to dead pool, then they're gonna die anyway. (shrug)

my thoughts exactly. Only this way, they'll all be dead AND we won't have any water. Fun!

 

[Velocifero]

yeah i pretty much listen to Boortz everyday. Love all of 750 actually. the water situation is pretty gay, but we'll buy it from NC when that time comes. Not saying I want it to be that way, but that is what will happen. Action should have taken place earlier. GA cares so much about the increase of people moving in to bring revenue in that they should have already adjusted this s*** prior.

 

[RacerXGirl]

It's interesting how the lakes that the utilities own have handled the water issues much better than the lakes that the corps of engineers have been handling...

 

[wmbeaver]

its been pouring the past couple of days here. today at work the storms were so bad and so windy that i saw a glass table fly up in the air, flip over, and land glass side down. surprisingly the glass didnt break.

 

[Velocifero]

its been pouring the past couple of days here. today at work the storms were so bad and so windy that i saw a glass table fly up in the air, flip over, and land glass side down. surprisingly the glass didnt break.

sadly all teh rain predicted this week won't dent our problem

 

[aMaff]

yeah, we need a little more than the occasional shower...


EDIT: Taken from the weather.com:

It's been a weird month...

 

[wmbeaver]

for us, it rained practically all day yesterday and today. but i do agree, on an overall scale it isnt much, but it is something


the lake has slowly been going down over time though. we used to live on the lake, and around 1999-2000 a quarter of our cove was gone. we had to extend our dock out about every month or so. but now, its just gotten exponentially worse

 

[BigB]

yeah, we need a little more than the occasional shower...


EDIT: Taken from the weather.com:

It's been a weird month...

The MTD amount does not even take into account the deficit we have been running in rain amounts for the past 2-3 years....

 

[Kosh]

The ones that are truely suffering here are our dirty cars. A moment of silence (sssh)

 

[Foolish]

On Oct. 1, Stone Mountain Park began to make snow for a winter mountain, hoping to attract children who had not seen the real thing. The mountain was planned during the very wet summer of 2005, and the state and local governments were duly informed, said Christine Parker, a spokeswoman for the park.
The state announced a Level 4 drought response on a Friday and, after park officials reviewed the list of exceptions for businesses, snow-blowing began the following Monday, before much of the public had fully grasped the severity of the situation. After the project was ridiculed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the park shut it down. Ms. Parker said that only then did the park hear from state environmental authorities.
Stone Mountain had never intended to take a cavalier attitude toward the drought, Ms. Parker said, but had not been given any guidance.
“A lot of businesses are having to go out and ask the right questions,” she said, “so they can do the right thing.”

They needed guidance to know that making snow in Georgia in October when there has been a well-known drought and increasing levels of water restrictions all summer long was a bad idea????

******* incredible. The management of that park should be put in a room full of loaded guns, poisonous snakes, rusty nails, broken glass and chipper-shredders with no safety guards, and given no guidance. Anyone who walks out the open door alive can keep their jobs. My money says we'd have to replace the lot of them.

 

[blacksrt47]

What I dont understand is that they keep saying we are in a 100 year drought, well at what point in 100 years do you think geez we might need to do something about this?

 

[BigB]

What I dont understand is that they keep saying we are in a 100 year drought, well at what point in 100 years do you think geez we might need to do something about this?

The globe, not just the ATL, is in a 100 year drought. It is also cyclic.

 

[Kosh]

Lets hurry up and melt those ice caps so we can have more fresh water!

Hooray global warming!

 

[thewrench]

******* incredible. The management of that park should be put in a room full of loaded guns, poisonous snakes, rusty nails, broken glass and chipper-shredders with no safety guards, and given no guidance. Anyone who walks out the open door alive can keep their jobs. My money says we'd have to replace the lot of them.

So here's where I'll stray from my libertarian values. When Lisa and I got married 22 years ago we lived in Stone Mtn. and visited the park often. We saw the gradual change from a state park geared toward public use to what is now a publicly owned, leased to a private company, privately managed amusement park, theme park really. Now, in general I'm all for privatization, but when it comes to state/national parks that are supposed to be accessible to the public, I think the government should be the management and thus be held accountable. When we first moved there, the park was basically wide open. Then they started building fences and blocking off areas, adding attractions and charging extra for them and eventually sold out to Silver Dollar. The park is nothing like it was, and nothing like I believe a state park should be. Anyway, I'll step off of my soapbox now. BTW, that article doesn't mention that they had their own lake from which they could have made the snow, but it wasn't "white enough". And that lake seems to be full right now....

 

[Velocifero]

They needed guidance to know that making snow in Georgia in October when there has been a well-known drought and increasing levels of water restrictions all summer long was a bad idea????

******* incredible. The management of that park should be put in a room full of loaded guns, poisonous snakes, rusty nails, broken glass and chipper-shredders with no safety guards, and given no guidance. Anyone who walks out the open door alive can keep their jobs. My money says we'd have to replace the lot of them.

I'd be willing to bet that most of the people would make it out of this, I mean they could just pick up the loaded guns and shoot the snakes while carefully avoiding the nails, glass, and you really gotta be dumb to get caught by a chipper even without the guard.

 

[BigB]

So... I heard the gubner talking the other day... seems like Alabamastan does not even have watering restrictions like ATL/GA does.... WTF mate?