Drought: SFOG May Have To Close 3 Rides

[The Interpreter]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/sto...xflags0124.html

[WooferBearATL]

Yeah, the Fountains at Centennial Commons have been shut down for months. They told the Martin Luther King Center to shut their fountains as well.

[Outdoor Man]

I don't live in Atlanta, so there's my qualifications for this statement; but hasn't Atlanta since November been on a more "regular" rainfall pattern? Not sure that any deficit has been recaptured, but if they didn't close them last year during the height of the drought- why would they choose to close things when the drought is retreating?

Like I said, I don't live there, don't know what the conditions are. here in Cincinnati the lake at the front of our subdivision entrance was about 2 foot down in September.... As of this morning it was frozen at the top of the banks. So I would assume our drought is over- though I think since Jan. 1 2007 we're still a few inches shy of "normal."

[WooferBearATL]

I don't live in Atlanta, so there's my qualifications for this statement; but hasn't Atlanta since November been on a more "regular" rainfall pattern? Not sure that any deficit has been recaptured, but if they didn't close them last year during the height of the drought- why would they choose to close things when the drought is retreating?

Like I said, I don't live there, don't know what the conditions are. here in Cincinnati the lake at the front of our subdivision entrance was about 2 foot down in September.... As of this morning it was frozen at the top of the banks. So I would assume our drought is over- though I think since Jan. 1 2007 we're still a few inches shy of "normal."

We really don't have any evidence of the drought ending. The drought is expected to continue at least the remainder of the year.

[The Interpreter]

And it is so far from now over, Georgia is considering drought school for residents. Honest!

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