What lies beneath the Chattahoochee

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 12-4-02 | MIKE TONER

[stainlessbanner]

Time for a trip to Dixie Divers!

[SamAdams76]

And all this time I thought the Chattahoochie was just a song by Alan Jackson.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Way down yonder on the Chatahoochie,
It gets hotter than a hootchie-cootchie.
We laid rubber on the Georgia asphalt,
We got a little crazy, but we never got caught.

Down by the river on a Friday night,
A pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight.
Talkin' bout cars and dreamin' bout women,
We never had a plan just livin' the minute.

[oyez]

Maybe they will find the remains of mountain men and the other half of Drew's canoe from "Deleverance".

[blackdog]

A former business associate of mine has a mansion not too far from the banks of the Chatahoochee. In summer, he has an ingenious system of piping running thru his marble tiled floors that pumps the cold water at the bottom of the river thru the house and back out. In the summer those floors cool the whole house. In the winter he uses hot water run thru the same piping and solar water heating panels using a diverting valve. It costs him nothing at all to cool/heat a 7000square foot mansion other than the pumps.

He claimed that the environmental agencies would not have ever approved of his use of the river and had to do it secretly. He had divers do the work and they claimed to have seen catfish as big as a small car at the deep bottom channel.

[ppaul]

What lies beneath Chappaquiddick?

[capt. norm]

"catfish as big as a small car at the deep bottom channel"

They are remarkably similar to shark...unless something kills them, they just keep growing.

[Senator Pardek]

I wanna know why Billy Joe jumped off that bridge!

[joesnuffy]

XXL Catfish have been rumored to have slurped in a unprepared diver or two...
They seem to find dam inspectors appetizing..

[PAR35]

Wrong side of Atlanta for that.

[PAR35]

3,750 Union troops and 64 Confederate defenders

Sounds like an even match up. Who won?

[Pompah]

The yank's got lucky I heard. Luck and material wins every time.
Pax Aye Ya'all.

[okie01]

Maybe they will find the remains of mountain men and the other half of Drew's canoe from "Deleverance".

That river was the Chattooga, on the other side of the state -- between Georgia and South Carolina.

West Point and the Chattahoochee are on the Georgia-Alabama line.

[Diddle E. Squat]

"What lies beneath the Chattahoochee?"

Neal Boortz' old refrigerator?

[MHGinTN]

I could spot them a dive hole where they would likely find gold nuggets and gems, on the Elk River, just over into North Carolina.

[PAR35]

The movie was filmed on the Chatooga, but my recollection is that the book was set on the Chattahoochie.

[okie01]

...but my recollection is that the book was set on the Chattahoochee.

Could well be. I didn't read the book.

[davetex]

PRICELESS, BRAVO, MAYBE EVEN RUBARB JONES OLD VOLVO

[oyez]

Wrong side of Atlanta for that.

What do I know? I don't get to see near enough of that gorgeous and inticing countryside.