Starting the "nooz dae" by demonizing people who've stored water. Causing shortages, ya ya, they are.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 08, 1999

Answers

Could you elaborate? This is both surprising and alarming to me.

-- Anonymous999 (Anonymous999@Anonymous999.xxx), December 08, 1999.

Fox news is run by a dictator. "They report, they decide."

-- (Polly@troll.com), December 08, 1999.

You're not serious. Tell us you're not serious.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 08, 1999.

I'm hoarding hardy!

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), December 08, 1999.

I don't know if this is directly related or not. Every day I buy lunch, then drive to the local reservoir to eat and read for a while before going back to work. I've noticed that the reservoir's water level is going down. I don't mean by a couple inches or feet. I'm talking 3/4 of the total volume of water is gone! You can walk across in places where the water would have been 10 ft or deeper.

I have a hard time believing that people's storage account for these millions of missing gallons of water. Is it just me or do I sense an engineered water shortage coming up?

-- Powder (powder@keg.com), December 08, 1999.

I guess next they'll tell us to save water by not urinating. Dumb talking heads. "Dirty Laundry" ought to be the anthem of all newscasters.

-- Ken Seger (kenseger@earthlink.net), December 08, 1999.

Powder... what... huh... where...

Where exactly do you think that water went? They evaporated it back into the sky?

CHEMTRAILS!

;)

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 08, 1999.

Links please, thank you.

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), December 08, 1999.

There are such things as spillways, outflow pipes, etc. I'm not saying I know where the water went. But even without normal rainfall, the levels should not have dropped this much in the last three weeks.

I suppose I should have said that it all happened in a very short period of time.

-- Powder (powder@keg.com), December 08, 1999.

Powder, there are valid reasons for drawing down a water body, like to try to kill noxious weeds or to aid a dredging project. This is the time of year it would be done.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), December 08, 1999.

Powder,

If you live in Central Ohio, the water's down because we're 10 1/2 INCHES below normal for precip. this year.

-- Deb M. (vmcclell@columbus.rr.com), December 08, 1999.

Before this recent rain, eastern Nebraska had a grand total 0.03" of rain in the last thirty days, that rtecent inch helped but its still WAY behind. Does not look good for winter wheat if more doesn't come either wet or in flakes.

-- Ken Seger (kenseger@earthlink.net), December 08, 1999.

And those of us who bought commercial water are still to blame? Maybe the distributors shouldn't be allowed to sell it, or there ought to be a law. (&**$^%%%#)

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 08, 1999.

Hi Deb, I'm in Northern Central Ohio. OK here's the deal. I called public works a couple minutes ago. I was told that it's normal usage, coupled with lack of rain and there are no upcoming improvement projects. Whatever. I still think it's odd that it would empty so quickly, even if there are no hidden agendas.

-- Powder (powder@keg.com), December 08, 1999.

Wait a minute! Why would people go without water? Water comes out of the city pipes AND WE ALL KNOW THE UTILITIES ARE COMPLIANT, RIGHT ;->

So what's the problem. Come January 1, just turn on the tap.

Unless Fox has the same concerns we do and isn't tellin .....

-- (thirsty@slurp.com), December 08, 1999.

Well, you know...lack of rain...normal usage...and Govt storing up all the water and suppliers they can find in their bunkers...

So what was the question again?

-- Meateater (SilenceOfTheL@mbs.com), December 08, 1999.

Powder,

Hello & ditto for me too! Hope you're doing well.

I've lived near Hoover Resevoir (sp?) here in Ohio for the past 28 years... I've seen that fluctuate quite a bit, even as much as you've been saying - especially in bad drought (like back in '88, I think it was). I'll take a drive on the New 3C Highway near Westerville and see how it compares.

Personally though, from what I've seen of Alum, it's not as bad as it has been in the past.

-- Deb M. (vmcclell@columbus.rr.com), December 08, 1999.

Take a breath people, water levels in lakes are not going to affected by any amount of stored potable water.....

Don't worryabout it....

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BUT - Fox is the only semi-credible news group on TV. They don't cover everything as thoroughly as I'd prefer, but they do cover stories critical of the administration that the rest of the national media deliberately cover up.

IF - they are taking this attitude towards y2k-induced troubles, then we've lost the last remaining national exposure that DOESN'T take the Clinton administration at their word, heart, and soul; and who has NOT sold out to the national liberal bias in the culture.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 08, 1999.

No, I wasn't joking, yes, they did say it, and no, there'll be no links, because talking heads on the television morning news don't emit URLs from their armpits as they speak. [g]

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 08, 1999.

Ron,

ROFLMAO!! Ya know, if they would just do that, I might watch TeeVee again.

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), December 08, 1999.

I don't know if this is directly related or not. Every day I buy lunch, then drive to the local reservoir to eat and read for a while before going back to work. I've noticed that the reservoir's water level is going down. I don't mean by a couple inches or feet. I'm talking 3/4 of the total volume of water is gone! You can walk across in places where the water would have been 10 ft or deeper.

I have a hard time believing that people's storage account for these millions of missing gallons of water. Is it just me or do I sense an engineered water shortage coming up?

-- Powder (powder@keg.com), December 08, 1999.

Mr Keg, I still don't know where you live, but if you live in an area where the main precipitation comes in the form of winter rain, as I do, and as everyone from San Francisco to Seattle do, reservoirs are always drawn way down this time of year in preparation for rainstorms. Most of the reservoirs out here attempt to control floods by storing high flows, then releasing the water more gradually after the storm has passed.

ALK

-- Al K. Lloyd (all@ready.now), December 08, 1999.

Ron,

They speak from their armpits though.

-- (Polly@troll.com), December 08, 1999.

Interestingly enough, we normally get our water here in the Portland, Or area from a watershed called Bull Run. It has been the receipent of numerous awards for purity. The water has even been listed among the best in the world.

This morning Koin TV reported that the watershed has been closed down due to muddy conditions. We are now on deep wells as a backup to the gravity system from Bull Run. Now, in all the years I've been here, I've never heard of such a thing. Could be cause-and-effect urban growth, or any of a number of other factors. All I am sure of is the deep wells MUST used electricity to supply us water.

Testing going on? Who knows, because TPTB seem to find it impossible to believe that the citizenery herebouts can deal with the uncut, raw truth. "Ah what a tangled web we weave, when at first we practice to deceive."

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), December 08, 1999.

Ron, about the talking heads and the URL's. It's OT, but there's some folks about 200 yards from me developing a real virtual (no oxymoron intended) newsreader for a large news company.

The idea is that you go to their web site and instead of having to go to the bother of reading that pesky text yourself, Stacey Implants reads it all out to you and even spits out floating hyperlinks. Not from her armpits, but I'll suggest that. ;)

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 09, 1999.

They speak from their armpits though.
-- (Polly@troll.com), December 08, 1999.

No, you have armpits and assholes confused.....

-- _ (_@_._), December 09, 1999.