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	Name:	Bill -
	Subject:	Water levels
	Date:	12/22/2008 6:42:09 PM

Yep. I have plenty of friends. :)

Thanks Ron. :urock:

I also don't take ANYTHING I read on an internet forum personally. I don't know you, you don't know me. It makes no sense to let anything someone says - including how you'll respond to this post - bother me. Not in the least. I really don't care.

I own two properties on the lake. I paid a lot of money for them. They're in established subdivisions and they have deep water year round. I paid a premium for that. I knew - years ago - when I bought them that the lake rises and falls. I wanted water year round so I paid more for a lot that would have that. I ALMOST bought a lot that was seasonal. I figured 'who cares? I'll never use the lake in the winter anyway'. If I had done that I'd probably be on your side. But I didn't. So I'm not.

As I see it there is really only ONE group of people making a big stink about the lower water levels in the winter time. Land developers. They have thousands of feet of 'seasonal' property that they'd love to sell at 'seasonal' prices. That's how this battle began. They've fought it for awhile but one of them got the idea to try to get all the other seasonal owners to help pay their legal bills by getting you all on the band wagon.

I'm not going to do it. I refuse to pay to fight other peoples battles.

This reminds me of the people who buy homes on the end of the runway of an airport. The prices are much cheaper for those homes. People don't want to live there because it is a) too noisy and b) 'dangerous' - a plane may fall out of the sky and hit my house'. After they buy their property they all get together and put together a little SLISA type organization of their own... the next thing you know they're shutting down the airport. I'm not talking about O'Hare... although there are little SLISA type organizations there too that get runways closed at night or all together... causing delays in aircraft arrival and departure and causing YOUR flights to be late or delayed. I'm talking about the little general aviation airports... the ones that people who like to fly for recreation use. THOSE airports get closed down all the time by groups of people who just don't want them near their house anymore. Even though the airport has been there for 50 years. Is that fair?

I don't care. Really I don't. But I have an opinion just like you. My opinion says I bought the lot knowing the water level can rise and fall 20' or more in the year. That's why I paid MORE money for my lot than you did for yours. I don't care that you don't have water in the winter. You could have bought a year round lot just like everyone else. I SURE don't care if the land developers make three million bucks on their seasonal property rather than a million.

Before you start telling me that you're really only interested in being sure you have water in the summer... because the last few years APCO has been screwing you out of your summer water... don't bother. We have had that discussion before. We've been in a terrible drought for the last half decade or so. This summer it seems to be moving out of it. Great. The lake levels are better too. What a coincidence.

I know everyone wants to blame the low summer water levels over the last few years on APCO. Go for it. I don't.

Happpy Holidays Yall.