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When I saw "Dry Towns" in the tread le, I thought we were bringing back prohibition.
I mean....what else are people gonna do? It's not realistic to have people fetch their own water day in and day out...
Tennessee Town Has Run Out of Water
By GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press Writer
LinkORME, Tenn. (AP) -- As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community's towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve. With a twist of the wrist, he releases the tank's meager water supply, and suddenly this sleepy town is alive with activity. Washing machines whir, kitchen sinks fill and showers run. About three hours later, Reames will return and reverse the process, cutting off water to the town's 145 residents.
The severe drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast has threatened the water supply of cities large and small, sending politicians scrambling for solutions. But Orme, about 40 miles west of Chattanooga and 150 miles northwest of Atlanta, is a town where the worst-case scenario has already come to pass: The water has run out.
The mighty waterfall that fed the mountain hamlet has been reduced to a trickle, and now the creek running through the center of town is dry.
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Between 6 and 9 every evening, the town scurries. Residents rush home from their jobs at the carpet factories outside town to turn on washing machines. Mothers start cooking supper. Fathers fill up water jugs. Kids line up to take showers.
When I saw "Dry Towns" in the tread le, I thought we were bringing back prohibition.
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The ATL is down to 90 days of water. This could get ugly."I feel for the folks in Atlanta," he says, his gravelly voice barely rising above the sound of rushing water from the town's tank. "We can survive. We're 145 people. You've got 4.5 million people down there. What are they going to do? It's a scary thought."
We may soon have to abandon towns in the S.E.....but don't worry, global-climate change is a liberal conspiracy...
AJCWith no rain in sight, Gov. Sonny Perdue is looking for a little spiritual help to get North Georgia out of its drought.
Perdue's office has begun sending out invitations to a prayer service for rain at the Capitol next week.
The service is scheduled for Tuesday at 11:45 a.m. on the Washington Street side of the statehouse.
Heather Teilhet, his spokeswoman, said the governor began talking about wanting to host a service to pray for rain on his way back from Washington D.C. last week. He was in D.C. meeting with federal officials and the governors of Alabama and Florida to discuss the region's water crisis.
It's Bush's fault.
I certainly hope those ing icebergs start melting soon so we can get some water up in this . Melt mother ers melt!
I wonder if this will renew any interest in desalinization.
It's expensive..and you still have to move the water around.....sounds like an idea for a long-term solution, but for now it looks like people in the SE are stuck in a boat without water....
More people = less water
A few more wars are what is needed here.
Well, before they tapped into the Sierra Nevada, Santa Barbara built a desal plant that was ready to go in case their resevoirs ran low. It's mothballed now. I don't know any other community that actually built one.
I doubt it Chump. desalinization leaves a carbon
footprint and would only contribute to global
warming and cause drought.
Yeah, I know I am being sarcastic. It is hard not
to in this days world of sarcasim.
Much to your surprise, I agree with you on
desalinization. Especially in places like Texas'
where drought has always been a way of life.
But government is too concerned with taking
care of the poor and downtrodden instead of
taking care of their basic duties....first.
Nothing desalinates like evaporation, not to mention cleans...just a tad more global warming and we'll have plenty of drinking water.
Hopefully NY and LA will get buried under the ocean too, once their smog is gone, the fresh water formed by evaporation will be that much cleaner.
Plus we'll have better Democrats
It's all good.
The more I think about it, the more I realize global warming is going to solve a lot more problems than it causes...
Just think...once it gets hot, no more winter, that means to more traveling to wamer locations in the winter, no more costly and polluting winters when oil comsuption goes through the roof. A lot of desert areas will become green...
The cities which are responsible for the most polultion(which incidentally, are the cities with the most liberals living in them) will be the ones that get ed over the worst by the rising water level...
IF it gets too hot we can just have a nuclear war and cool things down a bit....and remember, that sun that gave us life is a big ass nuclear reaction, so don't say it's unnatural.
Atlant'a water problems have more to do with incredibly ty city planning as opposed to any climate change.
I need to understand; since apparently the left on the board won't actually post in the ACTUAL global warming thread - they'd rather insinuate that the SE US's problems stem from that issue.
How?
Why?
Whott's arguments make sense, after all. Melting means MORE water, not less; heat means MORE evaporation, not less. What's up? Why is MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING responsible for what is happening in Atlanta?
you!
If Bush was a better President...there'd be more water now. Neocons cause this ...
Forget about the fact that the most polluting, petroleum comsuming cities in the nation, are dominated by libs.
IT's ing Bush's fault.
I just wish it would hurry the up...I've always wanted to live on the beach, and I can't wait till Austin goes coastal. Price of my home will increase once it becomes beach front
then you better do something about that backyardI just wish it would hurry the up...I've always wanted to live on the beach, and I can't wait till Austin goes coastal. Price of my home will increase once it becomes beach front
Other important factors:
Beyond consumption and waste water produced by every individual...
The average human body is 60% water...for every person born, there's less water in the world.
And out of people...the people who are made up of the greatest PCT of water? ing infants...a mother ing infant is 75% water...those little water guzzling s.
Not to mention...skinny people retain more water than fat people in terms of PCT...
So what we really need from an individual standpoint...are fewer babies, and more fat people.
Whott, move the Childress Texas in theI just wish it would hurry the up...I've always wanted to live on the beach, and I can't wait till Austin goes coastal. Price of my home will increase once it becomes beach front
Panhandle. It is all beachfront property. I lived
there a few years. I know exactly what they were
talking about about seeing Lubbock in your rear
view mirror........LOL
And no one has seen water problems till they live
in that part of the country.
Whott = most logical poster ever.
Outstanding.
I"m going green!
Gonna get me a dozen Krispy Kreams and knock up es all night long!!!
Whottt never lets facts get in the way of a good rant....Forget about the fact that the most polluting, petroleum comsuming cities in the nation, are dominated by libs.
New York.
LA.
Chicago.
Boston.
Did I miss any? (Houston I guess)
have they tried squeezing their rocks?
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