"Gene Kearns" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:26:52 -0500, D-unit penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

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|"Gene Kearns" wrote in message ...
| On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:42:54 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
| following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
| |I have to leave to move some Climate Change off the driveways.
|
| Along with the extreme drought, we haven't had a *winter* in quite a
| few years.
|
| Only one morning, thus far, with any frost at all.
|
| We spent Xmas and New Years in shorts.
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| I remember when we actually had *four* seasons......
|
|
|
|True dat,
|
|In the 60's, 70's. You didn't get through the winter
|without several nice snowfalls here.
|
|Meanwhile,
|
|We went down for the weekend. I had to change into
|shorts Saturday afternoon to stop sweating. Lucky
|I had a pair stashed away in a drawer at the beach house.
|We drove to O.I to have dinner with my folks Saturday
|eve. My Dad was sitting out on the front porch to
|greet us still with *his* shorts on from working in
|the yard...and a cold beer.

Notice how many trees and bushes are budding out? The first week of
January?

|Did you read that article in Sunday's paper about Falls Lake?
|I didn't realize they screwed up on the depth when it was built.

No... I didn't see that! What did they do wrong. I know that they are
talking about augmenting the depth somehow. John... you better pay
attention, when you move, you are going to be contributing a bit to
the effort!

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From what I gathered, the topo maps they had available at the time were not
as accurate as they are now and the depth (excavation) of the lake is off
up to 5' in some areas.

Not sure who's to blame here but
they realized the error before the lake was completed. Apparently
It was too late to correct the error at that point.

Bottom line.
The lake has less water that originally planned so they had
to jack with the height to make up some of the difference.

Sorry I can't provide better details, I only scanned it Sunday
night before retiring.

db