Comments on: March has been wet, but the drought is still far from over

By: ST

ST — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:39:51 +0000

Dear god, that 11Alive “article” is horrendous… I hope this is the work of an intern and not a “professional” journalist.

-st

By: Jim Harris

Jim Harris — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:53:39 +0000

Do you know where the water is in plentiful supply, in Georgia? Away from metro Atlanta? And ‘they’ don’t ration it, or worry about it.

By: CrazyD

CrazyD — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:44:01 +0000

Oh, f… off…. the screen name change was a joke… like “I’m not a doctor but I play one on tv”. Maybe you’re too stupid to know what I was talking about. (btw, I’m not chicken little if that’s what you’re referring to there with your comment at the end)

I can read wikipedia too, ya know. I write 26 words and you know who I am and how I ’stupidly’ misinterpret historical data? Maybe you can enlighten me on the exact cause of the Mayan civilization collapse. And if this ‘cosmic cross’ changes our environment (solar flares, temperature changes, magnetic field changes, etc) then how is it in our power to make it positive or negative? How do you know they left the date blank? Sounds like a stupid misinterpretation of historical data to me. It ends with no explanation, not left blank or anything else. it just ends…

get a sense of humor. I thought you had one when you wrote funny things like this: ‘Anthropocene’?Has the Holocene ended already?
but I guess I was wrong…

By: SouthSideNative

SouthSideNative — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:44:58 +0000

Very sorry to get off topic ,but people who stupidly misinterpret historical data they dont even understand(and who use multiple screen names)annoy me.The Mayan Long Count doesnt signify an ‘end of civilization/world’ but the end of a 25,000yr astrological cycle consisting of 5 smaller 5,000yr cycles.Winter Solstice 2012 is the end of the Fifth Sun cycle and the start of a new 25,000yr cycle,and the first time in 25,000yr that the sun is conjunct the Milky Way,forming a ‘Cosmic Cross’ and supposedly signifying a time of transformation,not an end.The date was left blank because its up to US to decide if the transformation is positive or negative.Now pick ONE screen name and stick to it,chicken!

By: NotMayanButIplayedOneInApocalypto

NotMayanButIplayedOneInApocalypto — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:27:23 +0000

SouthSideNative:

Not saying that I fully believe it, BUT I think the Mayans (on whose calendar this prediction is based) know a little something about collapsing civilizations…

By: SouthSideNative

SouthSideNative — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:45:34 +0000

…and @ C. Little the world will ‘end’(yeah right)on Dec.21,not Dec.12.;)

By: SouthSideNative

SouthSideNative — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:42:19 +0000

Today the Fox5 meteorologist stated that “even 2005 wasnt a stellar year for rain”…as I recall 2005 was the second year in a row of record flooding in GA during hurricanes Dennis and Rita.

By: Chicken Little

Chicken Little — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:55:09 +0000

Water

Big deal

I hear the world is ending on December 12, 2012

By: Chicken Little

Chicken Little — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:53:32 +0000

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The question of “how many days worth of water do we have left?” never seems to have the same answer twice.

(snip)

So what’s the answer? It’s obviously very hard to say. My wild guess would be about 20 weeks (140 days), assuming a little bit of rain and no change in the Corps release levels. That puts us in mid-March. At that point, they could start using the dead pool and we’d see how things go from there.

By: Chicken Little

Chicken Little — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:24:48 +0000

Droughts don’t “end”, they taper off until you wake up one morning and realize your basement is flooded.

A tropical system dumping 10 inches of rain would cause potentially devastating flooding, that’s the last thing we need. A tropical storm dumping 3 or 4 inches, now that’s another story, we could use a couple of those.

Unless I’m mistaken, Lake Lanier should have dried up by now (but it hasn’t).