Comments on: GA Gov. Perdue: Bless Riley’s Heart http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/ & Home of Lawn Mower Repair Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:22:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Dystopos http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-13363 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:21:46 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-13363 I don't know much about nuclear power plant cooling requirements, but I can tell that Riley's writers make a lot more sense than Perdue's writers. I don’t know much about nuclear power plant cooling requirements, but I can tell that Riley’s writers make a lot more sense than Perdue’s writers.

]]> by: Kathy http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-11905 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:31:33 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-11905 From today's <a href="http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1193559440187600.xml&coll=2" rel="nofollow">Birmingham News</a>: <i>"Unlike Alabama, Georgia has taken strong steps to conserve water since a 1987-88 drought and has statewide authority to order watering restrictions, said Glenn Page, interim general manager of the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority. From 1990 to 2006, conservation efforts have cut water use per person from 146 gallons a day to 123 gallons, Page said. Page said that Georgia ordered even-odd watering days back in June 2006, and cut the hours of even-odd watering from midnight to 10 a.m. on April 1. In May and June, several local water jurisdictions - including Atlanta and Fulton County - cut watering to one day a week, imposing fines for scofflaws. Now all outdoor watering is banned in Georgia..."</i> From today’s Birmingham News:

“Unlike Alabama, Georgia has taken strong steps to conserve water since a 1987-88 drought and has statewide authority to order watering restrictions, said Glenn Page, interim general manager of the Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority. From 1990 to 2006, conservation efforts have cut water use per person from 146 gallons a day to 123 gallons, Page said.

Page said that Georgia ordered even-odd watering days back in June 2006, and cut the hours of even-odd watering from midnight to 10 a.m. on April 1. In May and June, several local water jurisdictions - including Atlanta and Fulton County - cut watering to one day a week, imposing fines for scofflaws.

Now all outdoor watering is banned in Georgia…”

]]> by: Kathy http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-11864 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:35:40 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-11864 I grew up in a small town about 40 miles south of Atlanta, and my mother still lives there. Until my father passed away earlier this year, he was an avid gardener who could grow almost anything -- fruit, vegetables, beautiful daylilies. They have been living with water use restrictions for years. That means no sprinklers, limited hand watering, using waste water for the garden, and hoping just enough rain would fall to keep everything from dying. Rainstorms that passed through Birmingham usually went north of them or dissipated before reaching Georgia. Drought conditions have been substantially worse there than here. We might want to keep that in mind before we start throwing stones at the people of Georgia. Here's a <a href="http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html" rel="nofollow">link</a> to a US drought map. The southeast is in a bad way, and it's going to take cooperation, not hostility, to solve this problem. I grew up in a small town about 40 miles south of Atlanta, and my mother still lives there. Until my father passed away earlier this year, he was an avid gardener who could grow almost anything — fruit, vegetables, beautiful daylilies. They have been living with water use restrictions for years. That means no sprinklers, limited hand watering, using waste water for the garden, and hoping just enough rain would fall to keep everything from dying. Rainstorms that passed through Birmingham usually went north of them or dissipated before reaching Georgia. Drought conditions have been substantially worse there than here. We might want to keep that in mind before we start throwing stones at the people of Georgia.

Here’s a link to a US drought map. The southeast is in a bad way, and it’s going to take cooperation, not hostility, to solve this problem.

]]> by: Cam Ward http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-11804 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:53:22 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-11804 Georgia seems to think the rest of us have not been suffering through a severe drought until suddenly they too were starting to run short of water. Georgia seems to think the rest of us have not been suffering through a severe drought until suddenly they too were starting to run short of water.

]]> by: Anonymous http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-11801 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:45:33 +0000 http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2007/10/26/ga-gov-perdue-bless-rileys-heart/#comment-11801 Perdue's upset because the press he's been getting in his own state has been hostile to him. Perdue’s upset because the press he’s been getting in his own state has been hostile to him.

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