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136. Drought Attacks Georgia
The state of Georgia is in the midst
a major drought. Experts predict that, unless it
“cats and dogs” real soon, the whole city
Atlanta will have no drinking water in four
. Lake Lanier, the source of Atlanta’s water delivery
, is now at only 20 percent of its
level. To make matters worse, when Georgia water
tried to block the flow of the Chattahoochee
southward to Alabama and Florida, those states threatened
with lawsuits. They claimed that they were just
desperate for and entitled to that river water
Georgia was.
The Georgia Civil Air Patrol has
trying to seed the clouds overhead for the
six months, to no avail. State officials asked
local Cherokee Indians to do a rain dance.
Indians told them they would do a rain
when the state returned all the land that
stole from the Cherokees. Officials hired the nation’s
one water finder. He found a still for
whiskey.
Finally, the governor himself held a press
on the steps of the state capitol building.
asked all the media to bow their heads,
his hands to heaven, and prayed. “Lord, we
asking for relief, not for us, but for
sick and the young in this state. Thank
, oh most powerful Lord.” The Georgia Association of
immediately sued the governor for conducting prayer sessions
state property.
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