The Rain of Governor Perdue
Michael Grunwald in Time magazine this week calls out Georgia and its Governor Sonny Perdue for exacerbating the water shortage:
So on Nov. 13, Republican Governor Sonny Perdue appealed to a higher power, hosting a statehouse vigil to “pray up a storm,” begging God to bring the rain he had withheld for 14 months.
But it wasn’t God who allowed an outdoor theme park to build a million-gallon mountain of artificial snow while the Southeast was running dry; it was Governor Perdue and his fellow elected officials. They also allowed the wasteful irrigation of Georgia’s cotton farms and the rampant overbuilding and overslurping of metropolitan Atlanta.
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The “Rain God” let Gov. Perdue down, it only rained .16 inches. Maybe he should do a rain dance the next time.
Comment by Bhmhomeboy — November 20, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
Alabama must pray better than Georgia - it rained for weeks when we did it.
Comment by Reactionary — November 20, 2007 @ 5:25 pm