No, this is not Death Valley. It is actually Lake Allatoona (North Georgia).
Some of you know, we have an extreme drought situation in North Georgia. Actually, I believe it is categorized as "exceptional" now which is worse than "extreme" in drought lingo.
This past weekend, my family ventured out to the nearest lake. If the weather reports didn't get your attention, this surely would.
You can see the line of gravel behind them. This is where the water line normally is.
We are 21 feet from a crisis situation. Our govenor has made a trip to Washington, but I believe that resulted in a lot of beauracratic nonsense.
As you can see, we do not have the pretty fall colors that we normally would at this time of year.
I have no idea what this was, but my daughter insisted that I take a picture of it. Theories were: old pot, weird toilet seat, ancient Indian bong (not sure how that would work).
We didn't see this deer, but here is evidence that they were lurking around...(We actually saw one later that day running across the road in front of our car). This is the bottom of the lake.
So, all of these pictures are to say...some people are getting hit really hard now (see Its-a-pugs-life blog). The city and state workers are being asked to not wash their hands which is completely ridiculous. Some of the landscaping companies are being completely restricted, and it is threatening their jobs.
We all have a part in this. We take water for granted, and we shouldn't. We rely on the government to fix things like this so it doesn't inconvenience us. When is the last time the government did something efficiently?
Pray for rain. The last time I checked, God controlled the rain. Conserve water. Do whatever you can now.
Our day ended at Cooper's Furnace day use area. Here is a picture of the furnace. For those of you not too familiar with Civil War history, this was an iron manufacturing furnace which was sold to the Confederate States in 1863. Sherman destroyed it with the rest of Atlanta in 1864. There are a few around this area, but most of them are under Lake Allatoona. We may soon be able to see them if this drought continues.
4 comments:
I have a boat that I keep at Victoria Marina, and they have had to move the docks out twice so that the boats will still be in water. I am afraid to go out, now, because the water is not deep enough to keep us from grounding out.
I would love to see a Hurricane come ashore somewhere around Savanna and give us a few days of drenching rain. But the news was saying that a couple of lakes like Burton are full. I don’t see how. I came through North and South Carolina a few weeks ago and the lakes there were way down, too. So how does Burton and the other one, I can’t remember which one it was, have a full bowl?
We need some rain!!!!
That one picture (with the three things sticking up out of it) could be a stool of some sort... heck, I don't know!
Coffeypot--Maybe it is because we send our water in Metro Atlanta to Florida!!!!
I've been praying that y'all will get some drought relieving rain! We know all too well what it is like. But, we actually busted our drought this year...after years of it.
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