Drought in Southeast: Atlanta has 3-months of water left...

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This is a pretty frightening situation if you think about it: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3730145&page=1

Do any of you live in the affected areas? How bad has it become? It seems that you get the *real* story from people who are actually experiencing something (as opposed to what they say on the news).

that is frightening.

sometimes I feel like I live in a dystopia.

i think god is punishing the south. hopefully the next thing that happens is the south suddenly disapears into the gulf of mexico

my condolences, mam. care for some waterwings, and a inflatable raft?

or maybe you'd like a drink of water? okay i'll stop now, sorry. i couldnt help myself

I'm going to water my lawn.

I live in the Atlanta area and yes, it is very scary. In some areas of Atlanta there are literally people whose job it is to drive around and cite people for outdoor watering of lawns or washing cars. There was an article in the newspaper yesterday about how some prisons were going to cut back on showers for prisoners and wash prison uniforms less frequently to save water. A lot of restaurants don't serve glasses of water unless you request it.

The most bizarre thing has been the patterns of rain for the past several months. There have been a lot of days in which the forecast says that it will rain and then it rains very briefly; A lot of times it would only rain for a few minutes. I have lived in Atlanta for a long time and there has never been anything like this before. Someone wrote a letter to the local newspaper envisioning a sci-fi sort of scenario in which people board up homes and pack everything up and leave. The writer wondered where the disabled or elderly or poor would go. So I just might find myself in the refugee category if Atlanta does indeed dry up and run completely out of water. I am not, however, elderly or physically disabled.

At the same time the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing a billion and a half gallons of water from the Lanier reservoir to keep the mussels further downstream happy, in accordance with the Endangered Species Act.

That's 150 gallons of water per day for 10 million people.

What exactly is Georgia going to do, then?

I heard about this.

Tim

It's not like there won't still be mussels, and if we have a water war because the Army Corps has been deliberately starving Georgia of water unnecessarily, I'm going to be pissed, maybe more ways than one.