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01 Nov 2007 09:12:56 PM |
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Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21582319/?gt1=10547
Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day
Southeast drought has dried up waterfall that Tenn. hamlet relied on
updated 3:51 p.m. ET Nov. 1, 2007
ORME, Tenn. -{AP} As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor
Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community's towering
water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal
valve.
With a twist of the wrist, he releases the tank's meager water supply,
and suddenly this sleepy town is alive with activity. Washing machines
whir, kitchen sinks fill and showers run.
About three hours later, Reames will return and reverse the process,
cutting off water to the town's 145 residents.
The severe drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast has
threatened the water supply of cities large and small, sending
politicians scrambling for solutions. But Orme, about 40 miles west of
Chattanooga and 150 miles northwest of Atlanta, is a town where the
worst-case scenario has already come to pass: The water has run out.
The mighty waterfall that fed the mountain hamlet has been reduced to
a trickle, and now the creek running through the center of town is
dry.
Three days a week, the volunteer fire chief hops in a 1961 fire truck
at 5:30 a.m. — before the school bus blocks the narrow road — and
drives a few miles to an Alabama fire hydrant. He meets with another
truck from nearby New Hope, Ala. The two drivers make about a dozen
runs back and forth, hauling about 20,000 gallons of water from the
hydrant to Orme's tank.
"I'm not God. I can't make it rain. But I'll get you the water I can
get you," Reames tells residents.
Three hours to work with
Between 6 and 9 every evening, the town scurries. Residents rush home
from their jobs at the carpet factories outside town to turn on
washing machines. Mothers start cooking supper. Fathers fill up water
jugs. Kids line up to take showers.
"You never get used to it," says Cheryl Evans, a 55-year-old who has
lived in town all her life. "When you're used to having water and you
ain't got it, it's strange. I can't tell you how many times I've
turned on the faucet before remembering the water's been cut."
"You have to be in a rush," she says. "At 6 p.m., I start my supper,
turn on my washer, fill all my water jugs, take my shower."
During its peak in the 1930s, Orme (rhymes with "storm") boasted a
population of thousands, a jail, three schools and a hotel. But those
boom times are long gone.
After the coal miners went on strike in the 1940s, the company shut
down the mine and the town has never been the same. Not a single
business is left in Orme. The only reminder of the town's glory days
is an aging wooden rail depot that sits three feet above the eerily
quiet streets.
Although changes are coming — cable TV arrived just a few years ago —
cell phones still don't work there. The main road into town is barely
wide enough for two cars to pass one another. Dogs wander the streets,
farm animals can be heard all around town, and kids gather outside the
one-room City Hall to ride their bikes.
"It's like walking back in time. It's Never-Never Land here," says
Ernie Dawson, a 47-year-old gospel singer who grew up in Orme.
Water restrictions in Orme are nothing new. But residents say it's
never been this bad.
Most of budget goes to buy water
Even last summer, as the water supply dwindled, city leaders cut off
water only at night. But in August, Reames took the most extreme step
yet and restricted use to three hours a day.
Elected in December, he has now spent $8,000 of the city's $13,000
annual budget to deal with the crisis. Most of the money went toward
trucking water from Alabama.
He has tried to fill the gaps with modest fundraisers, but it hasn't
been easy. A Halloween carnival last week cleared about $375 and a dog
show two weeks ago made $300.
The town has received a $377,590 emergency grant from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture that Reames hopes will be Orme's salvation.
A utility crew is laying a 2 1/2-mile pipe to connect Orme to the
Bridgeport, Ala., water supply. The work could be finished by
Thanksgiving.
"It's not a short-term solution," Reames says. "It is THE solution."
He says the crisis in Orme could serve as a warning to other
communities to conserve water before it's too late.
"I feel for the folks in Atlanta," he says, his gravelly voice barely
rising above the sound of rushing water from the town's tank. "We can
survive. We're 145 people. You've got 4.5 million people down there.
What are they going to do? It's a scary thought."
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02 Nov 2007 07:43:08 PM |
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On Nov 1, 9:12?pm, stoney <sto...@the.net> wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21582319/?gt1=10547
Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day
Southeast drought has dried up waterfall that Tenn. hamlet relied on
Water on for 3 hours a day?
That's OK.
It could and possibly will be off for weeks at time at some point in
our future.
Dem or Rep...any politician in charge had better come to terms with
how things really are and not live in dream land...we are running out
of time.
Without energy our country is open for takeover ... no jets...no
tanks...no transport on the ground or in the air. Luckily we will
still have nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers as long as
the uranium holds out. But the jets on the flattop all use jet fuel.
All the supplies for those subs and carriers petroleum dependent. So
long before the crude dries up the government must 'secure a supply'
of crude for it own needs.
Other countries such as Russia that have a good supply of crude may
not be so kind to keep on selling it to us and we need a 'local and
continual' source somewhat within our borders. You see, jet fuel as
well as gasoline deteriorates and cannot be stored indefinitely. So we
must always be producing some of it to replace the stale stuff to
supply the military. But, that's why we elect politicians to deal with
these troubles
As our world changes and our drug supply dries up, things will only
get worse. And the bigger the city - the bigger the hellhole it will
become.
Our energy dependence bill is coming do soon. And we must all chip in
to pay it.
There is no 'simple or easy answer' to this issue nor is there even a
'not so simple and hard answer' to our dilemma.
The world is in a death spiral. It is just how we have built our world
over the years....too many people...and not enough supply of infinite
energy.
It would be one thing if we all reverted back to rural living, burning
trees for fuel and housing and living within our comfortable means
allotted to us by nature, as our ancestors did back in the day. But
ten billion people can't burn the trees! (Ten billion people is a
conservative estimate of world population in the not so distant
future. We are at 7 people billion now.)
The World Coal Institute estimates world energy reserves as follows:
"At current production levels coal will be available for at least the
next 155 years compared to 41 years for oil and 65 years for
gas." (See footnote #1 and #2)
http://www.worldcoal.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=21
Even though this was written a few years ago and it is based on
'current production and consumption' it gives the same haunting
message to the generations to come.
We may not exactly see the end of our free flowing energy as we know
it - but some of our descendants will in the not so distant future.
This is the legacy they will inherit from us. But before the energy
dries up completely massive changes in our world will have taken
place.
Our population has grown to levels where it has passed the point of no
return for supporting a sustainable human population as we know it
today when it comes to their energy demands.
And leading the pack of over consumers is the USA.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption
Consumption is ingrained in us and we know no other way. And even if
we wished to amend our ways, how could all our retirement funds take
the hit? America is built on borrowed money, spending and consumerism.
And what does all that consumerism lead to?
It leads to the mess we are in now and the bigger mess the world will
be in once India and China pick up momentum to copycat the envious
lifestyle that they have held in high esteem as the 'American Dream'
You see, the problem is not with the earth having enough land for all
its people - the problem is with earth providing ad infinitum for all
the needs the people crave.
The more people born, the more heat is produced from their life and
all their cravings, As such, the warmer and more polluted the earth
gets and the more energy they all use and the earths resources are
depleted.
Fueling the problem of consumption is the games the Federal and World
banks play with interest rates. They manage the economies in ways to
fuel consumption and mask the real trend. Witness the recent cries for
Federal bankers to lower interest rates...so the stock market can go
up...fueled by spending of the consumer.
It is drug habit that Greenspan got us hooked on and we just can't get
away from.
Our economy is not based on sustainable health - it is based low
interest credit to encourage compulsive spending, debt and living a
life of constant consumption with a 'disposable mentality' when it
comes to durable goods.
All this consumption to artificially fuel our economy to make our
retirement funds only go up contributes to more and more global
warming and the depletion of our natural resources. Then the
governments juggle the numbers to make the inflation figures seem
artificially low, so everyone's retirement portfolio will make them
happy so they will continue to buy and consume more...and on it
goes....IT IS ALL WE KNOW
You see, no other animal destroys its environment except mankind. We
are the only ones that do not accept and live within our comfortable
means. We not only debt with our finances we debt with our
environment. What we are borrowing in terms of petroleum, coal and
natural gas takes millions of years for nature to make. Yet we are
using it all up in just a few hundred years...we can never pay it
back.
And even if you are of a religious bent that think God created it all
6000 years ago. What took 6000 years will still be used up in a
fraction of the time it took to create it.
Some theists say we need to pray harder to God to fix our mess. Other
theists say it is Gods punishment raining down on us?
No telling since God doesn't have much to say on this topic.
See:
'Why is God silent - I don't know?'
http://jesusneverexisted.org/jne/forum/index.php?topic=504.0
The scary thing is China and India are just starting to bloom with
their demands for fossil fuels We haven't seen anything yet with the
meteoric rise of gas, energy and over consumption.
I can see how life has degenerated in recent years in many areas from
food quality to services and this is just the tip of the berg for
things to come. I am not an alarmist as one lady accused me, an
alarmist creates concern unnecessarily. No, this is a real problem
that will touch us all someday. It is not a question of if...it is
only a question of when.
Footnote #1:
Something to think about is coals dependence on crude. Our crude oil
(41 years of reserves) will be depleted much sooner than our coal (155
years of reserves) This brings up certain problems of production and
distribution. For instance, coal is delivered to power plants by rail.
The trains are powered by diesel fuel, which is made from crude oil.
Now, we may be able to resort back to old technology and start running
coal fired steam locomotives to deliver the coal, but this will have a
negative effect on the green house gas emissions. But even before the
coal can be delivered it has to be mined and processed...and most of
that mining is powered by crude as well.
http://www.coaleducation.org/lessons/twe/mcoal.htm
Footnote #2
When we see such estimates of 41 years for our crude oil, there are
many things to consider in such estimates. The first thing is
estimates are notorious for not being accurate since it is a
speculation of the unknown mixed with the relatively known. For
instance, in the 1970,s they estimated crude supply to be gone in 20
years and that prediction was wrong.
The next thing is even if 41 years was accurate. It does not mean we
can drive up to the pump to fill'er up the last day of the 41 year
estimated life span of crude. Many of our foreign suppliers will have
decided to keep their production for themselves as they need it at
home. And far before we see the end of crude, the government would
have confiscated most of the US crude supplies and refining capacity
for national security and that is how it should be. We will be lucky
to get a gallon or two of allotted gas for each of us now and again to
fire up our Vespa's or more likely 50cc Chinese clone.
Without energy our country is open for takeover ... no jets...no
tanks...no transport on the ground or in the air. Luckily we will
still have nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers as long as
the uranium holds out. But the jets on the flattop all use jet fuel.
All the supplies for those subs and carriers petroleum dependent. So
long before the crude dries up the government must 'secure a supply'
of crude for it own needs.
Other countries such as Russia that have a good supply of crude may
not be so kind to keep on selling it to us and we need a 'local and
continual' source somewhat within our borders. You see, jet fuel as
well as gasoline deteriorates and cannot be stored indefinitely. So we
must always be producing some of it to replace the stale stuff to
supply the military. But, that's why we elect politicians to deal with
these troubles.
See:
http://www.algore.org/forum/al_gore_news_and_events/gores_work_combat_climate_crisis/why_dont_we_do_anything_about_global_
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Gas-End-Age-Oil/dp/0393058573
http://www.amazon.com/Hubberts-Peak-Impending-World-Shortage/dp/0691116253
http://www.lastoilshock.com/
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
http://www.amazon.com/Resource-Wars-Landscape-Conflict-Introduction/dp/0805055762
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Emergency-Converging-Catastrophes-Twenty-First/dp/0871138883
http://dieoff.org/
Take care,
V (Male)
Agnostic Freethinker
Practical Philosopher
vfr44@aol.com
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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02 Nov 2007 04:50:38 PM |
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:12:56 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
The severe drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast
But Global Warming isn't anything to be concerned about.
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is
no sin but ignorance."
- Christopher Marlowe
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| User: "stoney" |
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15 Nov 2007 08:28:42 PM |
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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:50:38 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:12:56 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
The severe drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast
But Global Warming isn't anything to be concerned about.
Of course not. Besides, 'jayzuz' will provide.....
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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16 Nov 2007 07:54:53 AM |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:28:42 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:50:38 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:12:56 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
The severe drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast
But Global Warming isn't anything to be concerned about.
Of course not. Besides, 'jayzuz' will provide.....
No more floods, remember. This time it'll be by drought.
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by
bolts of lightning."
- Calvin & Hobbes
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| User: "stoney" |
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22 Nov 2007 05:25:43 PM |
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:54:53 -0500, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:28:42 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:50:38 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:12:56 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
The severe drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast
But Global Warming isn't anything to be concerned about.
Of course not. Besides, 'jayzuz' will provide.....
No more floods, remember. This time it'll be by drought.
'God' lies, and it is, by definition, good.
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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02 Nov 2007 12:26:33 AM |
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stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21582319/?gt1=10547
Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day
Southeast drought has dried up waterfall that Tenn. hamlet relied on
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"It's not a short-term solution," Reames says. "It is THE solution."
He says the crisis in Orme could serve as a warning to other
communities to conserve water before it's too late.
A few weeks ago the news carried a story about Georgia asking people to
not waste water. They were already in the drought, the reservoir was
already dangerously low and the people knew that but were still wasting
water. The just annoys me so much, I almost think they deserve to have
a serious shortage just to teach everyone a lesson. Almost, but not
quite.
--
L. Raymond
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| User: "Geoff" |
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05 Nov 2007 09:03:40 AM |
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L. Raymond wrote:
stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21582319/?gt1=10547
Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day
Southeast drought has dried up waterfall that Tenn. hamlet relied on
...
"It's not a short-term solution," Reames says. "It is THE solution."
He says the crisis in Orme could serve as a warning to other
communities to conserve water before it's too late.
A few weeks ago the news carried a story about Georgia asking people
to not waste water. They were already in the drought, the reservoir
was already dangerously low and the people knew that but were still
wasting water. The just annoys me so much, I almost think they
deserve to have a serious shortage just to teach everyone a lesson.
Almost, but not quite.
I wear my burnt-out lawn here in Cobb County as a badge of honor. Then
again, I never watered my lawn even when there wasn't a drought.
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02 Nov 2007 08:51:58 PM |
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On Nov 2, 1:26 am, "L. Raymond" <badaddress@....com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21582319/?gt1=10547
Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day
Southeast drought has dried up waterfall that Tenn. hamlet relied on
...
"It's not a short-term solution," Reames says. "It is THE solution."
He says the crisis in Orme could serve as a warning to other
communities to conserve water before it's too late.
A few weeks ago the news carried a story about Georgia asking people to
not waste water. They were already in the drought, the reservoir was
already dangerously low and the people knew that but were still wasting
water. The just annoys me so much, I almost think they deserve to have
a serious shortage just to teach everyone a lesson. Almost, but not
quite.
It is a strange world here. The city finally stopped allowing
buisinesses to water their landscaping (we love our trees here-that's
why we chose the leaf theme for the Olympics). But water use is still
really high. Car washes are allowed to operate, many are the owner's
only buisiness. And of course, our life-long us vs. them battle with
our suburbs make things worse. Each county has its own ideas for which
buisinesses should be sacrificed and which shouldn't. One outlaws car
washes, another bans commercial lawns, still others don't think it's a
"real" problem yet and allow *all* water use three days a week.
And I don't know who didn't get the word about home prices here, but
they are still building like people are actually going to buy. There
are new subdivisions here full of *new* $300-$500 thousand dollar
houses. In several, only one house out of ten is occupied. I can't
help but wonder how much water was wasted to run so many miles of
plumbing. It also scares me to think about what might happen if those
empty ones filled up...
-Panama Floyd, Atlanta.
aa#2015/KoBAAWA!
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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02 Nov 2007 10:35:16 PM |
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It is a strange world here. The city finally stopped allowing
buisinesses to water their landscaping (we love our trees here-that's
why we chose the leaf theme for the Olympics). But water use is still
really high. Car washes are allowed to operate, many are the owner's
only buisiness. And of course, our life-long us vs. them battle with
our suburbs make things worse.
I think it was that same news story which mentioned that Georgia was
going to retain all the water in a certain reservoir rather than allow
any to travel down stream, and Florida was fighting mad because they
needed that water, too.
Each county has its own ideas for which
buisinesses should be sacrificed and which shouldn't. One outlaws car
washes, another bans commercial lawns, still others don't think it's a
"real" problem yet and allow *all* water use three days a week.
I think when there's any danger of a drought, commercial lawns should be
the first to go, residential lawns next and then they can argue about
which businesses should be shut down, although car washes and water
parks are the only heavy users of water I can think of.
Whoever installed the sprinkler system in this place had no concept of
efficient water use. There are three different heads that shoot 20'
streams of water across the driveway and front walkway to reach a
magnolia, the middle of the lawn and a 6" strip of grass on the far side
of the drive way. Last year I installed low-E windows to conserve power
(those things were worth it!) and this year I had to pay for foundation
work, but next year I hope to take care of the water being wasted around
here by reconfiguring the sprinkler system and installing better
toilets.
And I don't know who didn't get the word about home prices here, but
they are still building like people are actually going to buy. There
are new subdivisions here full of *new* $300-$500 thousand dollar
houses. In several, only one house out of ten is occupied. I can't
help but wonder how much water was wasted to run so many miles of
plumbing. It also scares me to think about what might happen if those
empty ones filled up...
Ooooh, don't get me started on new homes and their lawns. Where I live
in we generally get tons of rain, so we can easily handle a thirsty
grass like St. Augustine for the lawn, but when I see St. Augustine in
arid places, especially in the Texas Hill Country, I just get so pissed
off. This summer I drove my aunt out to visit a friend of hers just
west of Fredericksburg, and he was annoyed that someone recently sold
off 10 acres of land for development, because the extra people were
going to waste so much water. He said this just after telling us how he
managed to drown the buffalo grass that was trying to move in on his
nice 1/2 acre St. Augustine lawn.
--
L. Raymond
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| User: "stoney" |
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15 Nov 2007 08:27:56 PM |
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:35:16 -0600, "L. Raymond" <badaddress@....com>
wrote:
panamfloyd@hotmail.com wrote:
It is a strange world here. The city finally stopped allowing
buisinesses to water their landscaping (we love our trees here-that's
why we chose the leaf theme for the Olympics). But water use is still
really high. Car washes are allowed to operate, many are the owner's
only buisiness. And of course, our life-long us vs. them battle with
our suburbs make things worse.
I think it was that same news story which mentioned that Georgia was
going to retain all the water in a certain reservoir rather than allow
any to travel down stream, and Florida was fighting mad because they
needed that water, too.
Yes. Flush toilets eat up massive amounts of water.
Each county has its own ideas for which
buisinesses should be sacrificed and which shouldn't. One outlaws car
washes, another bans commercial lawns, still others don't think it's a
"real" problem yet and allow *all* water use three days a week.
I think when there's any danger of a drought, commercial lawns should be
the first to go, residential lawns next and then they can argue about
which businesses should be shut down, although car washes and water
parks are the only heavy users of water I can think of.
I understand, in Oz, there's no watering lawns or washing cars. Car
washes have to reuse their water over and over again.
Whoever installed the sprinkler system in this place had no concept of
efficient water use. There are three different heads that shoot 20'
streams of water across the driveway and front walkway to reach a
magnolia, the middle of the lawn and a 6" strip of grass on the far side
of the drive way. Last year I installed low-E windows to conserve power
(those things were worth it!) and this year I had to pay for foundation
work, but next year I hope to take care of the water being wasted around
here by reconfiguring the sprinkler system and installing better
toilets.
And I don't know who didn't get the word about home prices here, but
they are still building like people are actually going to buy. There
are new subdivisions here full of *new* $300-$500 thousand dollar
houses. In several, only one house out of ten is occupied. I can't
help but wonder how much water was wasted to run so many miles of
plumbing. It also scares me to think about what might happen if those
empty ones filled up...
Ooooh, don't get me started on new homes and their lawns. Where I live
in we generally get tons of rain, so we can easily handle a thirsty
grass like St. Augustine for the lawn, but when I see St. Augustine in
arid places, especially in the Texas Hill Country, I just get so pissed
off. This summer I drove my aunt out to visit a friend of hers just
west of Fredericksburg, and he was annoyed that someone recently sold
off 10 acres of land for development, because the extra people were
going to waste so much water. He said this just after telling us how he
managed to drown the buffalo grass that was trying to move in on his
nice 1/2 acre St. Augustine lawn.
Irony abounds.
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| User: "stoney" |
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15 Nov 2007 08:22:44 PM |
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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:51:58 -0700, wrote:
On Nov 2, 1:26 am, "L. Raymond" <badaddress@....com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21582319/?gt1=10547
Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day
Southeast drought has dried up waterfall that Tenn. hamlet relied on
...
"It's not a short-term solution," Reames says. "It is THE solution."
He says the crisis in Orme could serve as a warning to other
communities to conserve water before it's too late.
A few weeks ago the news carried a story about Georgia asking people to
not waste water. They were already in the drought, the reservoir was
already dangerously low and the people knew that but were still wasting
water. The just annoys me so much, I almost think they deserve to have
a serious shortage just to teach everyone a lesson. Almost, but not
quite.
It is a strange world here. The city finally stopped allowing
buisinesses to water their landscaping (we love our trees here-that's
why we chose the leaf theme for the Olympics). But water use is still
really high. Car washes are allowed to operate, many are the owner's
only buisiness. And of course, our life-long us vs. them battle with
our suburbs make things worse. Each county has its own ideas for which
buisinesses should be sacrificed and which shouldn't. One outlaws car
washes, another bans commercial lawns, still others don't think it's a
"real" problem yet and allow *all* water use three days a week.
SNAFU.
And I don't know who didn't get the word about home prices here, but
they are still building like people are actually going to buy. There
are new subdivisions here full of *new* $300-$500 thousand dollar
houses. In several, only one house out of ten is occupied. I can't
help but wonder how much water was wasted to run so many miles of
plumbing. It also scares me to think about what might happen if those
empty ones filled up...
They won't fill, but will be stripped. Soon after they'll be
abandoned properties.
About water. Early 80's California had a water shortage. Sacramento
metropolitan area asked people to conserve water. The people
understood why and complied. Several months later the water companies
got a hefty boost in useage fees as people's conservation of water
meant they weren't making a profit.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day |
02 Nov 2007 09:22:06 AM |
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On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:26:33 -0600, L. Raymond wrote:
stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21582319/?gt1=10547
Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day Southeast drought has
dried up waterfall that Tenn. hamlet relied on
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"It's not a short-term solution," Reames says. "It is THE solution."
He says the crisis in Orme could serve as a warning to other
communities to conserve water before it's too late.
A few weeks ago the news carried a story about Georgia asking people to
not waste water. They were already in the drought, the reservoir was
already dangerously low and the people knew that but were still wasting
water. The just annoys me so much, I almost think they deserve to have
a serious shortage just to teach everyone a lesson. Almost, but not
quite.
But... but... but... they *prayed* about it! You mean the drought's not
over?
Weird, it's like there's nobody to hear prayers or something...
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only
in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory
that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
- H. L. Mencken
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day |
15 Nov 2007 08:10:47 PM |
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:26:33 -0600, "L. Raymond" <badaddress@....com>
wrote:
stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21582319/?gt1=10547
Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day
Southeast drought has dried up waterfall that Tenn. hamlet relied on
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"It's not a short-term solution," Reames says. "It is THE solution."
He says the crisis in Orme could serve as a warning to other
communities to conserve water before it's too late.
A few weeks ago the news carried a story about Georgia asking people to
not waste water. They were already in the drought, the reservoir was
already dangerously low and the people knew that but were still wasting
water. The just annoys me so much, I almost think they deserve to have
a serious shortage just to teach everyone a lesson. Almost, but not
quite.
I understand.
/person
Where's the water?
/official
You used it all up. There isn't anymore.
/person
but we need water!
/official
Go fish.
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