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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

That's allright James.  I heard that our 'water board" was in negotiations 
with your city council to buy all the water in NE TN and pipe it here.  There 
only a 'few' people living in that area , anyway.  They don't need all that 
water  ;-)  ...............bobford


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--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Water Crisis Coming Soon
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 10:25 AM
> > >When I was young , no one would have thought GA
> would run short of clean 
> > water.  Don't think it can't happen in PA.  
> 
> Oh, Geeeze, Bob, not the old 'it could happen to
> you' ploy.   That's what we 
> hear from the 360lb guy who eats a dozen cheeseburgers a
> day, 'OH, yeah, so I 
> had a heart attack.  Well, don't think it can't
> happen to you!"  The 
> implication being that eating a bucket of grease a day and
> weighing more than 1/6th of 
> a ton had nothing to do with the coronary problems.  
> 
> I'm older than you and *!* heard about the potential
> for water problems in 
> Atlanta when I was a boy.  When *you* were a boy,  I was
> living in Atlanta and 
> every time there was an application for another housing
> project, the concern 
> was raised that the water source could be taxed beyond
> prudence.
> 
> Lynn's point is well taken.  Here we are in the 4th
> year of drought and the 
> second year of "very severe" drought.  We've
> had to adjust, but it's a drought. 
>  It happens.  The first three years we homesteaded here
> were drought an when 
> I was doing a great bit of gardening locally in '78 and
> '79 there was a 
> drought.  But it goes away.
> 
> You, on the other hand, have chosen to live in a desert. 
> There isn't any 
> water there (have you noticed), there never has been and
> there never will be.  
> 
> So I'd have to point out that in Lynn's case, yes,
> she can think it will 
> never happen to her.   She does not live in a place that
> has not had enough 
> regular rainfall to sustain agriculture for the past
> million years and no prospects 
> of rain for the next million.  When she does have rain, it
> comes directly down 
> from God, not the Water Board (probably what inspired
> calling the torture 
> 'water boarding').  Unless someone is going to run
> around all over her acreage 
> with wash tubs and take the rain from her when it falls, it
> will never happen to 
> her.
> 
> It did rain here last night.  A pitance but we
> water-paupers can't be 
> choosers!
> 
> 
> James
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