[Rhodes22-list] Lake bottoms up

[R22RumRunner at aol.com]

Mike,
The goal is better water management by the corps. They fall back on  
regulations that were drawn up fifty years ago without any forethought as to  what 
to do during an extended draught. Common sense has to play somewhere in  
this. Yes, I know. Thinking that common sense would be used by the corps is 
just  stupid on our part.
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 10/18/2011 9:11:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mweisner at ebsmed.com writes:

Rummy,

I thought that your house move was to eliminate the  problem of dependence 
on
lake water height.  Didn't you relocate to a  place known as Big Water?  
What
happened?  You need to talk to  those folks in northern NJ who feel like 
they
live in Venice.  Their  streets might as well be canals.  Talk about living
in a house that is  "underwater" - these people aren't just upside down in
finances!   Maybe the Corps can divert the NJ rains to SC ...  Nah, they
would  probably drown you guys.

You are going to protest?  What do you  want?  More rains?  Smarter Corps
engineers?  They build  dams for flood control and power generation,
recreational boating is a  side-effect.

What will you call yourselves, "Occupy the dam" or "The  Dry 99%" (hardly
applies)?  You would better spend your time doing  rain dances or calling on
these guys with their "Cloudbusters":  http://www.orgonelab.org/AIBC.htm. 

When the subject is rain, be  careful what you wish for ...

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer  ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY





From:  R22RumRunner at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:18 AM

Silly  Chris. Rum comes in a bottle. The bigger the better. I will be   
spending more time with the bottle since our lake level has once again  been

reduced to a tad pole pond by the USACE. Lake Hartwell is  currently down
eight  
feet and this past weekend I removed the  wife's Chaparral and our  SeaDoo 
from the water. Unfortunately  RumRunner will be pulled this coming  
weekend.

The boat ramps have  run out of concrete and we're now using the lake
bottom. 
My four wheel  drive paid for itself as I helped two neighbors to remove  
their  boats as well. It has been a dry summer, but the USACE didn't cut  
back

on  the amount of water they released downstream in time.  Protests are set 
for  November 5th at the dam and I hope thousands of  people show up. We 
went

through  this three years ago when they  allowed the lake level to drop
twenty 
four feet  before closing  the dam and allowing the lake to fill back up. 
The problem is   mismanagement by the Army  Corps.

Rummy

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