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Nutty posted 36 weeks ago.
Christ, thats terrible to see. Where is this and what is the cause?
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qb ant posted 36 weeks ago.
It's just north of Atlanta and we're in a real bad drought.
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FlashRedGLS1.8T posted 36 weeks ago.
I've been hearing how bad the drought is in the Atlanta area, but I've yet to see it.
That looks really bad. Wow.
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kylie posted 36 weeks ago.
That is so low!! It's the same at the reservoirs and lakes I run by here in Southern California. Although maybe not that bad.
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Iron Dan posted 36 weeks ago.
Jez, you guys should come up to my neck of the woods. We are having some of the worst flooding to hit the area in years.
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Sully800 posted 36 weeks ago.
Those pictures remind me of the children's story where a bunch of chinese boys have crazy abilities. One sucks up all the water in the sea, and people go to investigate the dry seabed until he can't hold the water anymore.
Obviously its terrible for the area and for the health of that lake. But its also pretty interesting to see everything that is normally beneath the surface. Iron Dan- dig some drenches and send that water toward atlanta!
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qb ant posted 36 weeks ago.
What's really interesting is this lake, Lake Lanier, is a man-made lake. There were pix on the news of what's underneath - lots of cut down trees - part of an old road that went thru right where they put the lake, and bleachers from an old race course.
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bluebirdbiker posted 36 weeks ago.
Climate change. And they say it's NOT happenning????? Puleeeeeze
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tri-ac posted 36 weeks ago.
we had images like that here at Detroit Lake a few years ago.
http://www.theslowlane.com/01tripg/detrl.html
it will come back. these things are cyclical.
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Iron Dan posted 36 weeks ago.
Those pictures remind me of the children's story where a bunch of chinese boys have crazy abilities. One sucks up all the water in the sea, and people go to investigate the dry seabed until he can't hold the water anymore.
The Five Chinese Brothers, that was the best childrens book of all time. My all time favorite.
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kylie posted 36 weeks ago.
The Five Chinese Brothers, that was the best childrens book of all time. My all time favorite.
I remember that one! I also really liked it but couldn't remember the name.
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Sully800 posted 36 weeks ago.
I knew it was something like that! Sorry to hijack the thread with it, now I've triggered mass nostalgia, haha
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qb ant posted 36 weeks ago.
tri-ac your pix are reassuring. Right now we're about 20ft in a deficit, but hopefully winter will bring some good steady rain - not good for training outside now, but hopefully for swimming in the spring :D
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tri2achieve posted 36 weeks ago.
maybe you can lobby for a shorter swim.
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Wow, I didn't realize that was Lanier, I thought it was Strom Thurmond.
...and not to get too political ...uhhh ... but, I wonder how low it would be if they hadn't tried to save those little snails down stream.
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PrinceofClydes posted 36 weeks ago.
Thanks for sharing.
Coincidentally, last night I saw a show on knowledge network about the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.
It has shrunk from 27,000 sq. kilometres to 9,000 sq.kms and the fishing industry is gone.
Ships lie rusting in the cracked dry earth.
The cause is much the same as in Georgia - upstream irrigation depriving the lake of water, plus some climate change.
http://unimaps.com/aral-sea/aralmap.gif
http://unimaps.com/aral-sea/print.html
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jalyon posted 36 weeks ago.
Don't expect any relief from our end (Alabama). I don't know as much about the situation as I should considering my Dad works for the Corps of Engineers, but I do know it's just a big mess with the water wars between AL and GA.
This is just more evidence against big cities. We should all go back to subsistence farming and the barter system :P
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azstinger11 posted 36 weeks ago.
hmm ok i'll give you this sack of corn and you give me that brand new S-works transition with Zipp 808s on it deal?
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tri2achieve posted 36 weeks ago.
This is just more evidence against big cities. We should all go back to subsistence farming and the barter system :P
I know you are jesting to some degree but it has always been interesting to me that biologists are very detailed when it comes to "exceeding the carrying capacity of the land" when it comes to wildlife or stock but you can pile all the people you want anywhere if you've got the development dollars to build a living space.
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tri2achieve posted 36 weeks ago.
hmm ok i'll give you this sack of corn and you give me that brand new S-works transition with Zipp 808s on it deal?
That would have to be a pretty big sack ... it would take about 23 tons of corn at current prices ...
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qb ant posted 31 weeks ago.
Here's an update:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/01/05/pool0105g.html?cxntlid=inform
No lakes, now possible no pools - can you believe it?!
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PrinceofClydes posted 31 weeks ago.
Hey, thanks for the link. It was broken by the server's filter - but I backed the URL out to "/metro" and found the story anyway.
We in the Okanagan live in a semi-desert but we are experiencing rapid population growth - we could see the same thing as Georgia in a few years. Scary thought.
Makes Kylie's Endless Pool look pretty good, or was it Britda that has the EP?
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Tribro posted 31 weeks ago.
Ya. the URL gets cut on the display if it's really long. You can put the old style BBCode around it to make sure it doesn't (which I did).
[ url ]someurl.com/blah/[ /url ] (without the spaces between the brackets)
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qb ant posted 31 weeks ago.
Oops, sorry guys - thanks Tribro!
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Hey guys check out these photos - this is where we did our ows practice:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bikeshopbruce/sets/72157603326741094/show/
I don't know if this lake will ever recover - sad.........
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