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Sunday, October 21, 2007
News: Dry season.
Lake Lanier is looking pretty grim. I really want to see a current picture of the area around Bald Ridge Marina, where I had the houseboat tied up (Slip F13.)
Elsewhere in the Southeast, the well I'm on isn't sucking air. Yet.
Sounds like the situation Colorado has. Years ago the west slope [of the Rocky Mtns] communities signed contracts and accepted money from Denver for access to west slope water resources. But now there are more people, industry, farming, whatever, on the west slope and they want to throw away the contracts. Georgia is saying it's all the government's fault [wait for it - GW's to blame!] for water rights agreements Georgia made in the 1980s. [And, no, I don't trust the Corps of Engineers.]
Hopefully the drought and water restrictions will chase some of the transplants back north. Though it'll probably just make them more bold when it comes to wanting new laws passed...
Our's (A couple hours north of Lanier) is currently down to 42% of it's usable capacity causing stage 3 water restrictions all around the area. We've got a better bargaining chip versus the downstream interests though, Duke Power has a reactor at the south end of the lake and letting it's coolant intake suck air would be a really bad idea.
I'll take Kevin's word for it. I read the books back in the `70s and `80s, ending with The Lonely Silver Rain, which at the end showed the promise to take McGee in a brand new direction.
I remember reading the newspaper when John D. MacDonald died. That was a sad day. He had a couple of clinkers towards the end, but the man could write.
Sounds like the situation Colorado has. Years ago the west slope [of the Rocky Mtns] communities signed contracts and accepted money from Denver for access to west slope water resources. But now there are more people, industry, farming, whatever, on the west slope and they want to throw away the contracts.
ReplyDeleteGeorgia is saying it's all the government's fault [wait for it - GW's to blame!] for water rights agreements Georgia made in the 1980s. [And, no, I don't trust the Corps of Engineers.]
Well, so long as the local beer emporia stay well-stocked, I reckon you can wait out a dry spell.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the drought and water restrictions will chase some of the transplants back north. Though it'll probably just make them more bold when it comes to wanting new laws passed...
ReplyDeleteLake Lanier was looking grim six years ago when it was my practice area while flying out of LZU. The exposed shoreline was amazing, even then.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Phlegmmy. Let them drink (and cook and shower with) beer.
ReplyDeleteWell, the Corps is still catching hell for the flooding of NOLA, so ya gotta figure that they would rather see too little water than too much...
ReplyDeleteWe have hydro plants in Florida? Huh. I didn't know that and I've lived here over thirty years.
Looks the same as when I lived there 7 years ago. There were legal arguments with Jacksonville then too.
ReplyDeleteSlip F13? Did Mayer have a boat next to yours?
ReplyDeleteToo bad it's not in the Bahia Mar
ReplyDeleteOur's (A couple hours north of Lanier) is currently down to 42% of it's usable capacity causing stage 3 water restrictions all around the area. We've got a better bargaining chip versus the downstream interests though, Duke Power has a reactor at the south end of the lake and letting it's coolant intake suck air would be a really bad idea.
ReplyDeleteI take it that there's some significance to slip # F13, other than me once keeping a 65' Somerset tied up there?
ReplyDeleteMine went dry in SW Ohio a week ago Friday.
ReplyDeleteGetting some water now but no long showers ;-}
I take it that there's some significance to slip # F13
ReplyDeleteAh, it would seem that you have not read any of the "Travis McGee" series by John d. MacDonald.
You should. I recommend that you start with "A Deadly Shade of Gold."
Travis McGee lived on his houseboat, the "Busted Flush", at slip F13.
ReplyDeleteNope. Slip F18.
ReplyDeleteI've read 'em all and recommend them highly.
Forgot to add:
ReplyDeleteSlip F18, Bahia Mar, Ft. Lauderdamndale, FL.
I'll take Kevin's word for it. I read the books back in the `70s and `80s, ending with The Lonely Silver Rain, which at the end showed the promise to take McGee in a brand new direction.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading the newspaper when John D. MacDonald died. That was a sad day. He had a couple of clinkers towards the end, but the man could write.