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MartiniMan
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Water Level Down to 483.3
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6/12/2007 3:05:08 PM
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For some reason Lake Martin.com is not keeping information current.
Expect 482.6 by June 20.
At thsi rate the lake will be completely dry in 675 days!!!! OK, that last part was in jest, but we need to pray for a nice tropical storm to sit over Rome, GA and dump 12 inches of rain.
http://www.alabamapower.com/lakes/iframe_lakelevel.asp
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waterbug
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Water Level Down to 483.3
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6/12/2007 3:06:21 PM
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Thanks for the update. I figured they were not updating it for fear it would start a riot! Just kidding. Another month of this and I will change my name from waterbug to mudbug.
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MotorMan
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When life hands you a lemon...
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6/12/2007 3:31:31 PM
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In 1975 I bought my lake house. That's the one I have mentioned about it being a "tear down" that I fixed up to live in for fifteen years.
Anyway there was a bad drought in 1976 and the lake went down. Its one of the simple joys of living on a headwaters lake. There was no lake higher in the County so no cow manure came downstream. Bad news was there was stream to have ANY water come downstream.
I had a terrible mosiquito problem. There was a swamp in the backyard. With the drought, it dried up, My Nephew came out and dug out a hole and put in a treated lumber box with a septic tank pump in it. By chooseing that type of pump it could handle small twigs and leaves and pump water up hill and then by gravity out. It was a simple system. I had an extention core and when it rained I pluged it in and it ran all night and then I let the sun dry the last part. That really cleared up the mosqutoes.
So that drought gave me a lemon and I made lemonaide.
Use this lemon to build those seawalls and other projexcts that may need REALLY down water this winter and now for 482 projects.
I got 0.20 inch of rain about 1:30 today. It was accompanied by some strange loud noises coming from the sky but it has been so long since I head this I forgot what it is called.
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TotheLake
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I agree
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6/12/2007 3:35:46 PM
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I know alot of people are disappointed in the water level but go ahead and get a head start on winter projects. I just wish we needed to do some repair work to ours but we don't. We are going to use this time that the lake is down to hopefully build a new deck on the lake side. Nothing says you can't go to the lake and still swim even if you can't get your boat out.
As for the rain, it rained for about 35 minutes here in Wetumpka really hard and we even had hail in the mix with it. Not sure how much rain but I would guess a couple of inches maybe. Looks like we have anothe storm headed our way. I can do without the hail but send the rain my way!
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waterbug
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I agree
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6/12/2007 5:13:30 PM
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Hey guys! I agree too....I was really making light of the situation because unless one of us figures out a way to make it rain....a lot...it is only going to get worse. We were down there this weekend, had a foot of water in the slough we are in, so we can't get our boat in, the pwc in or even really swim, but we managed to have fun anyway. We will spend our vacation down there and figure out which ramps we can use to put our boat in, spend the day on the water then pull the boat out and head home for the evening. You are correct, there is still plenty to see and do....I am thankful I have a lake place!
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MartiniMan
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When life hands you a lemon...
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6/12/2007 5:14:11 PM
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Someone once told me that it is better to be an optimist.....you live longer and are generally happier. Although my natural inclination was to say "I'd be an optimist but it just wouldn't work out", I took that advice and it has served me well. I am actually up a slough so I can do all those projects in the winter when its a little cooler. I am not too exercised about this because the last time I checked God was God and I wasn't.....OK the Fire Inspector thinks he's God but I'm not fire inspector either. I do hope that with some concerted effort we can get a 5 or 7 foot drawdown which will give me year round water and room to work on my seawall, etc. More to the point, if people are watching lakemartin.com to judge when to get their boat out of the water before its high and dry they might not notice it was old information.
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waterbug
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6/12/2007 5:17:05 PM
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You are correct. Some of us use this information and would be left high and dry...no pun intended! Thanks for sharing the information.
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Aardvark
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Water Level Down to 483.3
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6/12/2007 6:33:12 PM
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I would rather see a tropical system park a little south of Rome, since Rome is in the Coosa basin. As for the head start on winter projects, I started shoveling off the boat ramp because the sand from the neighbor's swimming area washed up into our part of the slough, leaving a great supply of top quality beach sand just waiting to be used. I am hauling that sand to our swimming area, where wave action during normal years will keep the sand on our beach.
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