General Musings

Double Rainbow on the Blairsville side of Neel's Gap

The Granddaughter Duo


This gives new meaning to "Iron Horse"

Even bigger news today!

It rained in Gainesville (maybe 1/2 inch at my rain gauge) so the drought is not broken. Big excitement about the level of Lake Lanier and how all of north Georgia is going to have to shut down. I have seen it lower but there were a few million less people dependent upon it at that time about 20 years ago.

Should have been in San Angelo, TX when the new lake was built back in the 60's. It did not rain enough to fill it up for a few years and we used to ride around on the "lake bottom" while consuming our favorite beverage. The lake bottom burned one time and made national news. There was a proposal at one time to pipe water from the Mississippi River to west Texas. See next paragraph.

From an April 1984 meeting: West Texas Historical Association President J. Conrad Dunagan said two speakers traced the history of the depletion of water resources and steps taken to conserve water. The speakers talked about plans in the 1960s and 1970s to import water from the Mississippi River. The plan was narrowly voted down by Texas voters. The speakers also pointed out that no one has a satisfactory answer to the problem, Dunagan said.

Maybe we can do that for Georgia - I think New Orleans would help build the pipeline.