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On May 28, 8:45 am, wrote:
On May 28, 8:30 am, "jamesgangnc" wrote:





"John H." wrote in message

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On Tue, 27 May 2008 09:24:32 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 27, 11:39 am, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2008 05:58:02 -0700 (PDT),
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Is it still low?? Around here in NC the lakes are briming. Kerr
is
like 5
or 6 feet over pool and the Corp is letting water out of the rest
to
keep
them from being too high.

Here in central Iowa, the local flood control/recreation lake is
twenty feet above normal. Lots of beaches and boat ramps are closed.

Casady

It was a zoo at Falls Lake in Raleigh NC on Saturday. Boats
everywhere.

That's good news! It makes my plan to move to the Wake Forest area
more
tenable. (Sure hope I used that word properly!)
--
John *H*

The start of summer around here is usually busy with a high percentage
of
newbees crowded around at the ramp. It's entertaining if you don't let
it
get to you. But the high boat traffic made the lake a bit choppy. After
a
month or so traffic will drop off a bit. I suspect that some number of
people get into boating and decide it's not really their cup of tea.-
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Back on track, I was just watching a news strory on how the boat
reposessions are way up. Folks overloaded with cheap debt, have to
choose between the boat and the house. There will be a lot of marina
sitting this year I bet...

Will be hard for a lot of people. I towed the boat to Sacramento yesterday,
and used a little more than a 1/2 tank of diesel == about $50 @$4.99 gallon
and since I was not going very far up the river and did not need a lot of
extra weight I only put in 42 gallons of gas at $4.029 $174 at Safeway
stores gas station. Could have saved 3 cents by going to Costco, but
probably cost that much to tow the extra distance. If people are trying to
keep the kids in clothes and food, they are not going to be able to afford
too many trips to the lake.