It's beginning to look a lot like...FALL?!?!

Rain, rain, come this way. Unless you live in the south, you probably don't have an accurate picture as to just how severe the drought is in these here parts. The lakes are doing okay, but the rivers are hurting. The Suwannee River in south Georgia, which normally flows at a rate of 1,600 gallons per minute is currently flowing at 1.5 gallons per minute. Other rivers in Georgia aren't fairing too well either. The Chattahootchie River is moving slower than democracy in Iraq, and that's the main source of drinking water for Atlanta. So things have been very dry here of late. How dry? It's starting to look like fall around here. During times of severe drought trees will shed leaves as they begin to be stressed by the lack of water. My back yard bears hints of October, as the leaves on the trees are starting to turn yellow, courtesy of the drought. The whole state is one big tinderbox, ready to go up in flames at any time, just look at the 500,000 acres that have already burned in southeast Georgia in the past month. Too bad there's no water to put the flames out. I hate to say it, but a hurricane would be good right about now.