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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Water Crisis Coming Soon
  • Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:41:08 -0800 (PST)

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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