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I’ll take wildfires over water shortage any day. History shows that civilization survives fires. Not so with water.

Have a big fire, and everybody wants to be Ty Pennington.

But run out of water? Mad Max.

As a native Maconian, I thank you for holding Macon up as a role model.

Sure, less charitable people might say that Macon/Bibb has just mismanaged every other aspect of their existence for the past fifty-years, so that nobody wanted to move there, and everybody who could leave did.

But you’ve put those people in their place. Rotten public schools (except for the honors classes at Central)? A political environment saturated with racism and poisonous distrust (now from both sides!)? Economic development by folly (two or three more Georgia whatever Hall of Fames and they’re set!)? — Those weren’t failures, they were just part of a very effective controlled-growth plan.

Nicest thing anybody’s said about Macon in years. I expect to see it on the Chamber of Commerce website by the end of the week!

You forget, I lived in the greater Macon area (that would be Warner Robins) for seven years. I am well acquianted with its charms.

And as for Macon’s water, Shirley says no thanks, don’t need it, we’re fine.

And I hear Sonny is still waiting by the phone for his good buddy George to call.

I am well acquainted with its charms.

That makes one of us. Ba-dap-ching!

Sadly your war focused president has chosen to ignore a global problem,he needs 46 billion right now for war money.Worry about the water later.Global warming has been a threat to US business for many years.Fighting global warming for the States meant big business was going to lose money.
Guess what,you guys are approaching a potential disaster sooner than later.On the bright side you guys have an opportunity to teach the rest of us how ignorance of global warming will affect us all.
If Bush gets his 46 billion for the war…..try putting in to perspective what tools and measures could have been purchased with that same 46 billion to protect or build your water reserves.

I wish you all luck….and some rain!

Gee, thanks for the nice generic anti-American rant.

Please keep in mind … not all 300 million Americans are alike, or disbelieve global warming or are ignorant of its effects, or want more money spent on the Iraq war, or voted for Bush. Any more than all 33 million Canadians are took-wearing Molson-drinking hosers, eh?

But when you talk to one of us like we are all like that, well, it doesn’t exactly open the mind.

And right now, in a state where we are being advised to take “Navy” showers, excuse us if our concerns are a bit more short term and local.

You appear locked in on some $46 billion appropriation, which is in fact not even one tenth of what has been spent in/on Iraq. Which is not much more than 1% our bloated deficit-ridden annual budget. Which is not likely to be blocked by those who openly declare they are Bush’s most ardent foes in Congress.

And also, which is not the subject of this article.

Wow, nice anti-American rant you drew there Reid. Anyways,
a fairly simple TEMPORARY solution to the problem: stop using water processed for human drinking to water lawns. Then some type of order to development. Hehheeh, as far as Cary, NC, well…
people have been extolling the virtues of NC for a long time. Seems the government of NC, much like GA. was somewhat taken aback that all the people lured to the wonderland of NC would be drinking water and watering their lawns. I’m somewhat more concerned that they miss their former homes and want to make NC as much like NJ, NY, or where-ever, as possible.

Walt
come visit at MNID sometime. We even had a Betty Boop sighting the other day. ;)

Hey Walt! It may never come to that, but I know for a fact what happens when the water runs out. Where I grew up in the country, we had a well. In the summers sometimes, there wouldn’t be much rain. When the water started looking rusty coming through the tap, we bought bottled water to drink. When the pressure went down, we stopped taking our Saturday night baths. When it went down further, we rarely flushed the toilets. When it got beyond that….