Re: Drought tightens its grip on Southeast
- From: strabo <strabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:49:09 -0400
Bob Brock wrote:
Yeah, this includes the area where I live.
And me, a bit to the north. Its been very dry and due to the
El Nina effect, looks like a dry, mild winter.
Some rain in the forecast though if a forecasted low
front comes south this weekend.
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071015/ap_on_re_us/southern_drought_1
BUFORD, Ga. - If there's a ground zero for the epic drought that's tightening its grip on the South, it's once-mighty Lake Lanier, the Atlanta water source that's now a relative puddle surrounded by acres of dusty red clay.
Tall measuring sticks once covered by a dozen feet of water stand bone dry. "No Diving" signs rise from rocks 25 feet from the water. Crowds of boaters have been replaced by men with metal detectors searching the arid lake bed for lost treasure.
"This lake is a survivor," Jeff "Buddha" Powell told a worried customer at his bait shop along the barren banks.
"If you panic, you don't help Mother Nature," he added. "It's going to rain when it rains."
But little rain is in the forecast, and without it climatologists say the water source for more than 3 million people could run dry in just 90 days.
That dire prediction has some towns considering more drastic measures than mere lawn-watering bans, including mandatory rationing that would penalize homeowners and businesses if they don't reduce water usage.
"We're way beyond limiting outdoor water use. We're talking about indoor water use," said Jeff Knight, an environmental engineer for the college town of Athens, 60 miles northeast of Atlanta, which is preparing a last-ditch rationing program as its reservoir dries up.
"There has to be limits to where government intrudes on someone's life, but we have to impose a penalty on some people," he added. "The problem is how much and who. That gets political. But it's going to hurt everyone. We're all going to share the pain."
About 26 percent of the Southeast is covered by an "exceptional" drought - the National Weather Service's worst drought category. The affected area extends like a dark cloud over most of Tennessee, Alabama and the northern half of Georgia, as well as parts of North and South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia.
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