Posted on 11/30/2007 10:00:58 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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The drought is starting to expose many secrets about the lake, including the trash and other items that residents and visitors dump in the vast water source. Whole forests, roads, bridges -- even a race track -- were inundated by the lake when it filled in the 1950s.
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They talked about the raceway and showed old pictures, but didn’t show pictures of it now. I would have enjoyed the contrast.
The race track and stands are interesting.
All of Tom Mann jr’s secret brushpiles are no longer secret.
Allatoona has a town under it’s waters.
Black Label beer! Now that’s an artifact!
I recently bought a Waverunner from a guy who owned a very nice place on Lanier. Even though the ski was two years old, it was literally in showroom condition because he said he had hardly been able to use it. What little he had used it entailed a 20 mile drive to the nearest accesible boat ramp (he said there were a dozen or so between his place and the one he was forced to use, but they had been closed all summer) , and he said that now even it was closed. He went on to tell me that even over the last five years he had very litte time where he actually had water under his dock enough to use it and access his waterfront. Rough stuff.
I used to buy black label as a college student because it was 99 cents a 6 pack!
Give you a headache before it gave you a beer buzz. I dont miss it much, but it was cheap!
This is bad.
Check out the aral sea. It is 60 km from the fishing village to the water!
Mabel! Black Label!
I remember seeing it at my grandparents house as a kid. I got a headache just looking at the can.
Those ‘dry banks’ areas are quite familiar to an East Tennesseean; our TVA lakes are drained down to river floadplain level every Fall. As a kid living near Boone Lake, I use to find some very interesting things in the muddy flats and caking silt around boat docks. I always had plenty of fishing lures in the Spring! Even found a nice Zebco rod and reel that cleanup to be used for a couple of years until I had it pulled into the lake by something too big down near the dam.
This is just a short term problem folks. Global warming will cause the seas to rise, cover most of Georgia with water, and fill up the lake. Be patient.
“Allatoona has a town under it’s waters.”
We used to go fishing on the Tennessee River when I was a kid and there was a huge Granary that was subnerged when they flooded the lake in the 30’s. I looked it up on Google Earth:
36°17’55.61”N 87°56’58.90”W. After all these years it still amazes me.
Thought you might be interested in this.
I bet the coinshooters are all over that racktrack.
Back in the 1980s, Black Label had a bit of a resurgence among the goth crowd in Toronto. The brewery even dug up and aired the old “men from Mars” TV spot for a while. After lots of mergers and divestments, the brand is now owned by Molson Coors in North America (acquired when Molson bought Carling O’Keefe).
Get off the table Mabel, that two dollars is for beer.
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