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loneleeb3:
Just thought I'd share with y'all a little bit of what is going on in my community.
Our Major water source is Lake Sidney Lanier.
It has 752 miles of shoreline, 39,000 acres under water with a a depth of about 200ft int he deepest part of the lake. At Full Pool the lake is 1071ft above sea level. Today we are at 1050ft above sea level.
Current reports have us at less than 81 days of drinking water for the metro Atlanta Area. Folks, thats over 3 million people. However, the lake is evaporating at a rate of two weeks ahead of the predictions so everything is going to have to be re-calculated.
I'm attaching some pictures of the lake or whats left of it.
The first pic is when it was full. The rest let you see whats left.

Kelda:
wow Lee, thats no good.... & some people say there is no such thing as global warming  :-\

Shasta542:
That's hard. I have friends in TN who live on a lake -- they have also had a drought to the point of moving boats out of docks because the water is too low to float them. Their vegetable garden died; not sure it's affecting their drinking water supply tho. Here's hoping and praying for rain--lots of it--for your region, Lee.

David In Indy:
I've been watching this on the news. Parts of the South are in big trouble if there isn't some rain soon. They need several weeks of steady soaking rains but not heavy rain as this would likely cause flash flooding due to the overly dry ground.

I love Georgia and I hate to see something like this happening. I hate to see it happen to anyone. It's currently raining here in Indianapolis. Maybe some of it will drift in Georgia's direction.

loneleeb3:

--- Quote from: David on November 21, 2007, 06:11:31 pm ---I've been watching this on the news. Parts of the South are in big trouble if there isn't some rain soon. They need several weeks of steady soaking rains but not heavy rain as this would likely cause flash flooding due to the overly dry ground.

I love Georgia and I hate to see something like this happening. I hate to see it happen to anyone. It's currently raining here in Indianapolis. Maybe some of it will drift in Georgia's direction.

--- End quote ---
Actually we are supposed to get some over the next day or two. However it's not going to matter.
On the news last night we would have to get a rain of 4-6 inches spread out over a few days for it to even be noticeable.
That would give us enough to soak in and some runoff into strams and tributaries of the lake. Right now anything less than that won't make it below the surface of the ground.
Right now we are almost 2ft below where we shuuld be for the year. I'm not quite sure how that is converted to the lake measurements though. The lake is down like 18ft!

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