Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Lake Lanier is still down almost 20 feet. They had to put extensions on the intake pipes to reach the water . . . we could use a good 3-day slow soaking rain.
If it’s up to me, you could have it. I don’t think anyone here would object!
Some friends of mine live on a cove of the lake, and it's been dry for so long they have a meadow under their boat dock. No water in the cove at all.
Well with that fish eye lens, that place doesn’t look like it would hold water anyway ;~)
But there are acres of mud. Dried mud.
Whoa!!!! that looks bad.
Becky
And the lake is so low because the Corps of Engineers has been releasing hundreds of millions of gallons a day because of some endangered fresh-water mussels downstream. Absent the stupid environmentalists, the lake would still be at fairly normal levels because they would have cut back their water releases before the drought got so bad. But they just kept on draining and draining and draining the lake . . . . and no rain to replenish.
The governor had to threaten to sue them to get them to stop.
Speaking of this mostly being avoidable if people didn't make dumb decisions, the area in the picture is fairly new development. When I was in high school I used to ride there, it was all woods. It's one of the areas where the environmentalists were right. The area is and should have remained a wetland. People laugh, because it sits dry most of the time. The function of a wetland is not that it always has water, but that it can hold water when needed. It's a big bowl, and when it rains, it fills with water. Naturally, it had the soils and vegetation that would absorb and hold it. Always has. They developed and started paving and building... dug a big wide catchment for water, and of course, because it sits dry all summer, they put a park and ball fields in the catchment. Within a few years, people forgot that the whole purpose of that catchment was to hold water, and they built apartments and strip malls all around it. Then they started complaining about how the park and surrounding homes and businesses were always flooding.
I worked for awhile with a wetland scientist. The function and regulation of wetlands is often misunderstood here.. some think it's mostly about habitat, some think it's mostly about pretty green mossy places, but he said the real function of wetlands is flood control, and that a lot of places that should be declared wetland, aren't, because their value as flood control isn't as popular as the more 'aesthetic' values.
Are those turkeys? I guess they know Thanksgiving has passed and they are safe:)
Becky
Nah, not around here anyways. I made it a point to find out when that filly I bought several years ago jumped the fence in the middle of the night and got hit and killed. You aren't held liable for loose livestock unless it can be proven that you are repeatedly negligent in maintaining your fence and your livestock are out all the time, otherwise they're just ruled a road hazard.
That’s great news about Lori! Sounds like a great proof of the power of prayer. I’m glad to hear that she’s got such a great attitude. I think sometimes that helps more than all the pills in the world.
Well, that is good too know...and makes sense, which is shocking:)
Becky
What are those?
Well, I’m off to hook up the trailer to get Harley to the vet....
Altho he seems to be fine today....who knows, but he’s still going.
Becky
OK - will wait for the report back. I’ll be around today... my main goal is clean stalls and pick up new bedding.
That's just the problem, they AREN'T mine. They're all Greatnephews and Greatneices, so my discipline options are fairly limited. They're fairly good when they're by themselves, but when they all get together like that they're just like pack of wild amimals.
LOL...well, for they're safety they should be taught to act like humans around horses:), but it was great desensitizing for the horses...that's what I thought about it:) I'd be more inclined to kick the parents butt's tho, along with the kids:)
Becky
Wow, that’s a lotta wild turkeys, and bold ones at that. Think the game warden would mind if you whipped out your shot gun and bagged one for Christmas dinner from the front porch? The SSS rule here would of course be Shoot, Stuff and Serve! ;o)
Too many houses around to take a shot and they seem to know when the hunting season ended.
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