Comments on: Late Nite FDL: When the Water is Gone, What Then? http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:37:05 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: totallynext http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107841 totallynext Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:49:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107841 <p>And this is going to sound really bad, but.</p> <p>I will ask all register Democrats and progressive independnet voters to raise their hands and set up a system to delivery water for their needs.</p> <p>All others - suck on the dry lake bed and pray. Because as the good book says: You reap what you sow.</p> And this is going to sound really bad, but.

I will ask all register Democrats and progressive independnet voters to raise their hands and set up a system to delivery water for their needs.

All others – suck on the dry lake bed and pray. Because as the good book says: You reap what you sow.

]]> By: SPG http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107776 SPG Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:45:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107776 <p>About the rain catchment for home irrigation. I built a setup like this last year, a 65 gallon rain barrel raised up 2 feet, a timer, and drip irrigation.<br /> Cost a total of $115 and took an afternoon to assemble. I haven’t had to drag out a watering can all summer and my landscape looks great. Self contained, self sufficient, and not a penny spent after install.<br /> Not sure if it’ll ever save me money over running the tap to water the plants, but I did it mainly to save the time and effort.</p> <p>I also live in Seattle where the rain is plentiful in the winter and early spring, but in the summer it’s usually bone dry. In the summer I love watching all the lawns go brown…people here think it’s insane to pour perfectly good tap water on the ground. Come fall the rain will come and the grass will recover. Not so much in the suburbs where the sprinklers still run wild all summer.</p> About the rain catchment for home irrigation. I built a setup like this last year, a 65 gallon rain barrel raised up 2 feet, a timer, and drip irrigation.
Cost a total of $115 and took an afternoon to assemble. I haven’t had to drag out a watering can all summer and my landscape looks great. Self contained, self sufficient, and not a penny spent after install.
Not sure if it’ll ever save me money over running the tap to water the plants, but I did it mainly to save the time and effort.

I also live in Seattle where the rain is plentiful in the winter and early spring, but in the summer it’s usually bone dry. In the summer I love watching all the lawns go brown…people here think it’s insane to pour perfectly good tap water on the ground. Come fall the rain will come and the grass will recover. Not so much in the suburbs where the sprinklers still run wild all summer.

]]> By: 65yoh http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107715 65yoh Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:36:32 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107715 <p>when the water is gone, there will be none<br /> left to weep.</p> <p>peas!</p> when the water is gone, there will be none
left to weep.

peas!

]]> By: sammy1 http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107712 sammy1 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:35:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107712 <p>what happens when your 10 to 20 gallons of emergency water runs out?</p> what happens when your 10 to 20 gallons of emergency water runs out?

]]> By: Nippersdad http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107675 Nippersdad Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:59:47 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107675 <p>Trex:</p> <p>I am not clear on why you use Perdue’s numbers on this. The Corps of Engineers has said repeatedly that there are over 260 days worth of water in Lanier right now. Sonny has said that it is poisoned with heavy metals, but the Corps had independent tests done which show that that is not the case. Worst case scenario is that the water will be a little more costly to filter.</p> <p>Sonny et al clearly know this and yet are still fast tracking new power plants, some nuclear which use immense amounts of water…..this is just an opportunity for them to gut the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act. Citing the eighty day figure just feeds into the hysteria they seek to create. </p> <p>While they are clearly culpable in their development strategy without doing anything whatsoever in terms of water infrastructure to match it, I think that concentrating on their dire threat scenarios only serves to empower their true objectives. Gwinnett, after all, still has an even odd outdoor watering policy. Were the problem as serious as they make out, they would not allow the disaster to actually happen on their watch.</p> Trex:

I am not clear on why you use Perdue’s numbers on this. The Corps of Engineers has said repeatedly that there are over 260 days worth of water in Lanier right now. Sonny has said that it is poisoned with heavy metals, but the Corps had independent tests done which show that that is not the case. Worst case scenario is that the water will be a little more costly to filter.

Sonny et al clearly know this and yet are still fast tracking new power plants, some nuclear which use immense amounts of water…..this is just an opportunity for them to gut the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act. Citing the eighty day figure just feeds into the hysteria they seek to create.

While they are clearly culpable in their development strategy without doing anything whatsoever in terms of water infrastructure to match it, I think that concentrating on their dire threat scenarios only serves to empower their true objectives. Gwinnett, after all, still has an even odd outdoor watering policy. Were the problem as serious as they make out, they would not allow the disaster to actually happen on their watch.

]]> By: beb http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107510 beb Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:25:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107510 <p>Not look to the Great Lakes to bail GA out. Thoses are International waters. You have to negocite with Canada and the Great Lake States about any water diversion. And as a Detroiter I can tell ya — ain’t goin’ to happen.</p> Not look to the Great Lakes to bail GA out. Thoses are International waters. You have to negocite with Canada and the Great Lake States about any water diversion. And as a Detroiter I can tell ya — ain’t goin’ to happen.

]]> By: cal1942 http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107289 cal1942 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:48:01 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107289 <p>Comment 23 above starts with:</p> <p>“total morons in charge”</p> <p>That would be Conservatives. Their belief, as in Katrina, is ’self-reliance.’ Get out there and dig yourself a well.</p> <p>Actual planning and action would require big government. Start yesterday to sink big ass deep wells as a hedge against drought - that would require tax revenue. </p> <p>Government, taxes. Can’t have that. Throw out the baby with the wash first.</p> Comment 23 above starts with:

“total morons in charge”

That would be Conservatives. Their belief, as in Katrina, is ’self-reliance.’ Get out there and dig yourself a well.

Actual planning and action would require big government. Start yesterday to sink big ass deep wells as a hedge against drought – that would require tax revenue.

Government, taxes. Can’t have that. Throw out the baby with the wash first.

]]> By: wilderness wino http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107248 wilderness wino Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:26:28 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107248 <p>Exactly… and these people (TRex, VG, ?) will always be welcome in my “home”!</p> Exactly… and these people (TRex, VG, ?) will always be welcome in my “home”!

]]> By: Lucci http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107237 Lucci Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:17:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107237 <p>Thanks for the rain dance, wilderness <a href="mailto:wino@304.">wino@304.</a> I’m not sure how many “kind and caring” souls there are here in Georgia, though; at least there’s TRex!</p> Thanks for the rain dance, wilderness wino@304. I’m not sure how many “kind and caring” souls there are here in Georgia, though; at least there’s TRex!

]]> By: wilderness wino http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107229 wilderness wino Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:13:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/19/late-nite-fdl-when-the-water-is-gone-what-then/#comment-1107229 <p>We may want to “talk” to our Christian brothers and sisters and let them know that Armegeddon won’t REALLY happen unless THEY continue to provide their faithbased (lack of) leadership.<br /> I am however a practicing paegan (Lakota) shaman and will do a legitamate rain dance for the kind and caring souls of Georgia… it should give you enough water to fill your canteens and “get the HELL out of Dodge”.<br /> There is , I have been told, a huge buyers market in this Great Nation in almost any direction that you plan to migrate; but alas, the water and all other natural resorces have been privatized!</p> We may want to “talk” to our Christian brothers and sisters and let them know that Armegeddon won’t REALLY happen unless THEY continue to provide their faithbased (lack of) leadership.
I am however a practicing paegan (Lakota) shaman and will do a legitamate rain dance for the kind and caring souls of Georgia… it should give you enough water to fill your canteens and “get the HELL out of Dodge”.
There is , I have been told, a huge buyers market in this Great Nation in almost any direction that you plan to migrate; but alas, the water and all other natural resorces have been privatized!

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