Longer drought and serious water problems predicted for 2008

[TnHilltopper]

Predicting weather is both science and madam cleo. Go a few days forward in the future and their predictions are pretty durn good. Go out one year and really, who the heck knows.

In any case, I would be happy for a wet and soggy year.

[MrsMtnsOnTheMind]

Anyone know where Maryville gets their water from?

Did you know you can drink rain water? Some raw foodist feel that it is cleaner and better for you than distilled, spring, etc. Perhaps this could be an option for some.

[Tony1790]

Originally Posted by HengyMama

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Did you know you can drink rain water? Some raw foodist feel that it is cleaner and better for you than distilled, spring, etc. Perhaps this could be an option for some.

Um, about rain water.....in a drought, ya don't get any to be able to drink

But you are correct, rain water is good. My house in Ketchikan, Alaska was solely based on rain water, we had no well and no city water, just a 10,000 gallon tank that our roof water ran into.

Tony

[MrsMtnsOnTheMind]

Originally Posted by Tony1790

Um, about rain water.....in a drought, ya don't get any to be able to drink

Tony

It does rain some, even in drought conditions. I don't think TN will ever become a desert.

[yarddawg]

Originally Posted by HengyMama

It does rain some, even in drought conditions. I don't think TN will ever become a desert.

Parts of East Tennessee (including mine) only got about 1/3 of an inch of rain in August this year. I haven't actually run the roof square footage vs. storage tank size numbers but my gut feeling is that rainwater collection would be a difficult solution. While this summer was abnormally brutal, late summer here is typically dry and a comfortable margin of error would require a storage tank large enough to hold four weeks water supply.

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by HengyMama

It does rain some, even in drought conditions. I don't think TN will ever become a desert.

Yeah, even though it was one of the driest years on record, we still got 36 inches of rainfall for the year here in Nashville. Not exactly the Sahara.

[MrsMtnsOnTheMind]

I was in East TN for 10 days in July and I swear it rained almost every day. One day we had a bad lightening storm and had to switch from a tent (camping) to a cabin for the rest of the week because of the forecast. I also saw the most beautiful double rainbow (full arch) that I have ever seen. Check it out.

[TnHilltopper]

When round bales are going for 75 a bale, it was a dry year. This is like the second really dry year in a row which is where ground water reserves start to suffer.