Created in 1956 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and situated just north of Atlanta, Lake Lanier is the largest lake in Georgia, encompassing 38,000 surface acres and 692 miles of shoreline at normal level, or “full pool.”
In 1999, Georgians were told that Lanier was in a perilous state, as the region was in the grips a protracted drought described by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as the “Drought of the Century.” Roy Barnes, Georgia’s Democratic governor at the time, issued a terrifying warning that lake levels might never recover unless immediate steps were taken to mitigate global warming. Those steps were never taken, but the drought of 1998-2003 eventually met a natural ending when plentiful rainfall returned Lanier to full pool.
In 2009, Georgia’s citizens were told that Lanier was once again in a perilous state, so much so that it could dry up permanently along with the rivers and streams that feed it. Nearly three years of drought had left the lake hovering at 20 feet below full pool, the lowest on record. Things were so bad that floating boat docks rested on dry land far from water, in some places as much as 100 feet away – photo. Mainstream media warned readers and viewers that the drought of 2007-2009 likely marked the arrival of the long-predicted environmental “tipping point.” But by the next year, the drought went away as plentiful rainfall returned Lanier to full pool.
Fast-forward to 2013. After an extremely hot summer the preceding year, Lanier had fallen to 13 feet below full pool, providing the climate crisis industry yet another opportunity to raise their ominous warnings to deafening levels. But by May 2013, less than a year after the drought of 2012, Lanier was restored to full pool as north Georgia experienced abundant rainfall and one of the coldest spring seasons on record.
Do you see a pattern? As one drought leaves and another arrives, climate crusaders seize upon the new one to frighten voters into accepting the stratospheric carbon taxes they say are urgently needed to address global warming. When drought conditions don’t exist, they move on to something else and start yelping about another “climate emergency,” such as blizzards, hurricanes, floods and forest fires. All of those extreme weather events are natural components of earth’s ever-changing climate, which has been in an inexorable state of flux long before dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.
So, after three droughts in the last 23 years, how has Georgia’s largest lake been adversely affected by climate change? The answer is not at all. You won’t hear climate carnival barkers trying to horrify you about Lake Lanier this summer, because Georgia’s No. 1 reservoir is holding a straight flush with a water level standing at full pool.
More about north Georgia’s drought history …
In April 1865, the month President Lincoln was assassinated and 91 years before Lake Lanier existed, north Georgia entered a drought phase. Over the next century, the region would experience protracted droughts from 1903-1905 and 1924-1927, the latter of which was so severe that the lowest stream levels ever recorded in Georgia were reported by the Weather Bureau, known today as the National Weather Service.
The next droughts to impact the region occurred in 1930-1935 and 1938-1944. Fifteen years later, north Georgia suffered through the drought of 1950-1957. Thirty years down the road, Lanier reached the lowest levels since its creation during the drought of 1985-1988 before recovering to full pool when abundant rainfall returned.
Bottom line: Periodic droughts in north Georgia—and everywhere else on the planet—are an inevitable part of the ever-changing climate cycle that existed long before the climate crisis industry concocted the global warming hoax in the early 1980s.
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We aren’t seeing “climate change” but normal variations within the climate. Droughts are a recurring phenomenon will occur again and again.
Well, ah declayah. These folks, ah say these folks ain’t got the brains that God gave a turnip. Ain’t they never heard of Global Cooling a few years back?
It’s baaaaack…
Right, it is part of the 11 year Solar Cycles, especially the Grand Solar Minimum Cycle of about 400 years. The Eddy Minimum has started and it could get as cold as the Maunder Minimum. Crop production will decline Globally due to cold and shifted rain patterns. TPTB are doing their part to worsen everything.
If only the dinosaurs were still around they could tell us all about climate change.
And tropical storms like Ida and so many previous, bring tons of much-needed rain to the state. I worked with a 60 year old guy who grew up in Waycross, GA (far south in the state). He said that virtually every drought would end with rain so heavy from a tropical storm that you could go swimming right from the front porch. Took a couple of days for the water to soak in and drain away, but all good after that. Not only do the climate alarmists not acknowledge this truth, they are also hell-bent on coming up with technology that will dissipate hurricanes so that they don’t hurt all their rich friends living on the coast. GA and surrounding gulf states will certainly dry up and blow away if criminally-idiotic ideas or technology like that ever succeed.
It already exists. The only questions are whether it’s being used, and how would you be able to tell if it was being used.
Gotta love a town that has Pogo on its water tower.
Lake Agassiz is also much diminished from its heyday.
Climate hysteria goes back at least to the mid 60’s. The left (yes, it is always the left) makes hysterical claims about what is going to happen if we do not _______ (fill in the blank, but include lots of money). It is always a disaster just around the corner, never a small change that is coming. Of course, the disaster never occurs and they can jump forward to their next disastrous claim that will occur in 10 years. It is all well documented.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
The “right” spends their time focusing on apocalyptic predictions about “commies” and terrorists instead.
Let me combine the two terms “commies” and “terrorists:” Amerikan institutions.
Except for a global pandemic.
See, sometimes they get impatient and they just gotta make something happen.
In the ’60s the Army Corps of Engineers was in its heyday period damming up all kinds of rivers and streams in hopes of fooling Mother Nature. Not to be outdone, the Chinese upped the ante with much more massive projects that are sure to wipe out millions when sooner or later the colossal size dams burst and a huge flash flood races hundreds of kilometers to the sea, wiping out everything in its path.
I live in north Georgia and I could use a drought. It rains more here than it ever did when I lived in Florida.
When I attended Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, it was way out in the boonies. Atlanta was a long drive on a narrow two-lane road.
Aaayyy – another military school victim. Right before I graduated (barely), I got busted down to corporal. Don’t all high schools have a rifle range?
Yeah. 8th grade while the Ole Man was in Vietnam. A rich man’s reform school. There were many boys there of Central and South American fathers who occupied high positions. I begged my father to send me back.
Reminds me of Colorado Springs School, with its contingent of kids from rich families south of the border. It was not in good taste to ask any of them “what brings you here?”.
M1 breakdown in about 30 seconds. Mirror shine on the shoes and boots. Brasso was a friend.
Shocker: See How Georgia’s Largest Lake Has Been Affected By HAARP Weather Modification.
There. Fixed it for you.
“You won’t hear climate carnival barkers trying to horrify you…”
How about evolution carnival barkers? 65 million years… when do we get a break from that idiocy? It’s the same BS but on a much more grand scale.
Who created the dinosaurs?
God of course, but in the Bible they are known as dragons, behemoth and leviathan.
We killed them, not some SMOD 65 million years ago.
You are talking about Long Term Species Genetic Adaptation, and it is as real as God the Father. Christianity’s Science Luddites are doing grievous harm to our Faith. I was told by the Baptist I did not belong because I believe Evolution (i.e., understood Evolution’s Mechanics), which were created by God. While I’m at it Sir, the New Testament is not Infallible and knowing that will get one kicked out of some churches by Christian Historical Luddites . You are a wonderful person; but honestly, as more people understand Biology and Theological History, you are a stumbling block driving away intelligent people, especially our youth.
You really need to read The Hidden History of the Human Race by Cremo and Thompson. You will never look at “scientific evolutionary” narratives the same way again.
What you will learn is two-fold:
1) There have been numerous well documented examples of modern or proto-modern humans you would be hard pressed to find different than the average man on the street…except these lived tens of millions of years before evolutionary science claims it was possible for that to occur. You will see how, as the theory of evolution became more entrenched in institutionalized analysis of anthropological findings, the THEORY drove the FACTS and not the other way around. Careers built on the rock solid assurance of linear evolution simply would not yield to discoveries that obliterated that paradigm.
2) You will discover a very familiar process in the above developments. What we have been seeing with the entire Covid narrative is EXACTLY what happened to those who attempted to bring alternative proofs to the court of peer review about evolution, i.e., they first were marginalized, then castigated, then character assassinated, then sunk with almost no trace to counter the official line. Cremo and Thompson had to engage in painstaking research over many years in the original documentation in order to recreate an accurate understanding of just how complete the suffocation of truth was.
What you “think you know” is not what the FACTS reflect when you are allowed to view the complete story. It was sobering to realize the lies, the dissembling, the ad hominems, the obliteration of records that disagreed with the theory…all those tactics are being used now to bury an alternative to the mindless march of greed and idiocy among the medical mafia and their sycophantic followers. It has all been done before.
It is not Christian Luddites you should be embarrassed about. It is that people of goodwill like yourself have been so thoroughly bamboozled by the psychopaths and charlatans who control the narrative for their own purposes, and how easy it is to maintain that facade once they have gained the high ground of acceptance.
Well spoken!
Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
You provide the existence of humans 10 million years ago and TPTB suppression of that info as proof there is no Evolution. Not good enough because Evolution still exists for millions of species on Earth and undoubtedly everywhere life is based on DNA; as do Luddites, Academic Liars, Evolutionist, etc, still exist as we have proven. I am OK with y’alls denial of Evolution so long as y’all allow real Science to co-exist ; I believe God created every good thing; please stop “kicking” people out of church who are intelligent, educated “heretics” because I sincerely believe our Theology and Science are not part of Jesus’ criteria for Eternal Life in Heaven; it’s not a sin so I seriously doubt God will be sending Evolutionist and people who see “errors” in the Bible to Hell; nor Pastors deficient in Biology Science or History. Hope to see y’all there!
Where in the opening chapters of Genesis is this “evolution”? Either you believe God wrote an accurate and infallible book, or you do not.
I am not saying one can’t be saved if they believe in evolution; nor would I kick you out of a church for believing such foolishness. I’d try to help you see the truth of Gods word. I believed evolution for years; until I began to simply trust the words on the page and take them 100% literally. At that time did my eyes open fully.
When Genesis 1-11 become real, the world makes far more sense.
The Beginning of the World: A Scientific Study of Genesis 1-11
Whenever I hear some climate alarmist going on about how the world is in trouble.If we would just do something!!!! I simply act all concerned. Then I tell them These clowns have no idea what the weather will be like in a week. Now I am supposed to believe that in 20 years the world is gonna end due to the weather. I finish with these people play with themselves,and that they have no belief that a higher power controls the weather. When there is no belief in a higher power……Of course, man must be blamed. Same ole con. That shuts them up.
Ftmfw
I drove by Lanier this past weekend, I live in NC, bought a flat bed trailer near Lanier. The lake looked full to me, did not know it had experienced a draught. I agree, we could use one with all the rain we had in the hills / mountains.
Lake Lanier is a United States Army Corps of Engineers lake. Like West Point Lake further down, the Army decides how to manage the lake. There’s a lot more to “pool” level than just drought. They give zero fucks about “full pool”.
“Lake Lanier was built to serve many purposes including hydropower production, flood control, navigation, water quality and supply, recreation and fish & wildlife management. To meet these purposes and the water needs of downstream users the lakes water level will periodically fluctuate. Sometimes meeting these purposes may require one or more purposes being given a higher priority than the others. ”
Downstream (Chattahoochee River Basin) below Atlanta, the Army also manages West Point Lake, which takes in what Lake Lanier can send her. West Point is frequently so far below full pool that well-heeled homeowners with high and dry docks bitch about it. The Army tells them to go fuck themselves. You can’t even cut a tree down along Lake Lanier or West Point without Army approval.
Apparently further south, there is some species of endangered mussel that needs a flowing Chattahoochee River to make it. aka ‘fish and wildlife management”. Which drives lake levels. So does average winter rain prediction. And so does whether or not Shemeka the Silverback is on duty.
My point is, these lakes don’t “fall below full pool” without some GS-something level bureaucrat making the call. Weather be damned.
There are 4 CoE lakes south of Memphrica and they have a table telling them what the level should be on any given day. Their primary purpose is flood control, but they can be used to add water to the Mighty Muddy when there is not enough rain for the barges to run. The Corps’ decision making process has nothing to do with the land owners around the lake or the recreational users of the lake. Their response is it is THEIR lake and you are privileged to get to use it, so STFU.
Exactly!
No one is going to mention the population growth since 1956? There were barely a half million people in Atlanta the year it was built, now there’s close to six million. And that’s not counting suburbs which didn’t exist in the 50’s.
How can you even begin to discuss the lake level if you’re not even going to mention water usage? You think it’s just evaporating?
What a bunch of duplicitous turds.
And as of today the lake is 4/10 of a foot above full pool. To add to it we are starting to get rain bands off of the hurricane. There is probably going to be a large release over the next 48 hours as we are scheduled for some big rain.
In all fairness in 2009 the Corps of engineers over released water to help with water supplies downstream. The drought was man made. The 2009 “drought” allowed anybody with a less than stellar dock to put one in and dredge up to it, cheaply.
Chatuga is the same on the NC/GA line..
Same w/ Hartwell, the huuuggge lake you see in the background of Clempson football games. All Savannah River Lakes. Fed by Blue Ridge Mts. rain & snowfall.
Hey – “McCaysville Drug & Gun”. North GA, can’t beat it.
NC & SC have the most envious fresh water sources in the US. GA has a problem with ATL. Rest of the SE US has tons of fresh water.
A shout out 2U from Angelico Pass (Tenn side) on Hwy 64/74 right on the Tn/NC line.
North Georgia resident here. Bring on the drought, please. On days that it actually isn’t raining, you walk outside and it smells like a wet wash rag. It’s been like fucking Viet Nam here since at least 2018.
Send some out West, will ‘ya?