Georgia trying to get Tennesse's land?

[air311]

Our governor hear in Wisconsin was at a meeting yesterday, talking about trying to keep the southern states from taking water out of our Great Lakes since the wells down south are running dry. (Not our problem..nobody forced you fools down south to live where DROUGHTS ARE A COMMON HAPPENING, so leave our damn water alone please.) He stated in his speech that Georgia is trying to take land from Tennessee so that they can have easier access to water? Has anyone else heard about this? Whens the last time a state tried taking land form a neighboring state?

[sysint]

They are claiming some mistakes in mapping out the boundaries entitles them to a river.

Chicago made a river run backwards... states with money do what they want. What it comes down to is who has more money. Georgia has more money.

[mrs reb77]

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080208/NEWS0201/802080435

Unfortunately droughts happen all over so you can't really blame people for living where a drought is currently going on. Recall the dust bowl days of the '30s?

[air311]

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080208/NEWS0201/802080435

Unfortunately droughts happen all over so you can't really blame people for living where a drought is currently going on. Recall the dust bowl days of the '30s?

Yes..but the people that lived in the dust bowl survived with what they had, they didn't take anyone elses water. It's one thing for states to share water in an agreed upon way, like out west where water is pumped into california and arizona..but we don't want to share with the southerners. We'll ship them some snow next winter. Just wait, congress will get involved in this, and some southern congressman will say the great lakes belong to everyone...bull...they're OUR great lakes. Well, maybe they're not so great anymore...so why make em worse.

[k-fridge]

There is a section of land adjoining the Tennessee River that belongs to Tennessee according to the map. Problem is, the survey was done wrong back then due to faulty equipment. This has been a known fact for many years but no one wanted to push the issue. Had the original survey been done properly, that land in question would have always been Georgia. With the serious drought Georgia experienced last year, some of our lawmakers were considering a court challenge. I really doubt it's going anywhere, plus the drought situation has improved considerably so maybe folks will calm down.

BTW, this is not the first time Tennessee/Georgia borders have been moved; just correcting mistakes made a long time ago.

[mrs reb77]

Well, let's see then, we live side by side with the Mississippi river. I guess it now belongs to Missouri! Everyone else stop taking our water from our river!
Get a grip man. What, you think they're going to dig a canal all the way down to Georgia to funnel 'your' water down there? :eek:
Our county seat, about 12-14 miles from here, has been going thru a water crisis for several years. Their reservoir has been extremely low and they've considered pumping water over from the Mississippi. Instead they had several large wells drilled.
Then, these past few weeks, the heavens have opened upon us here and their reservoir is back up.

[glennac]

Our governor hear in Wisconsin was at a meeting yesterday, talking about trying to keep the southern states from taking water out of our Great Lakes since the wells down south are running dry. (Not our problem..nobody forced you fools down south to live where DROUGHTS ARE A COMMON HAPPENING, so leave our damn water alone please.) He stated in his speech that Georgia is trying to take land from Tennessee so that they can have easier access to water? Has anyone else heard about this? Whens the last time a state tried taking land form a neighboring state?

Shame we didn't win the War between the States we would have abolished slavery and had you Yankees picking cotton to pay for your arrogant attitude and then of course diverted the Great Lakes to the Mississippi and let it flow down to the land of milk and honey.:D:D:D Hee Haw:)

[tunnel_rat]

Didn't one of those "Great" lakes once CATCH ON FIRE? I seem to remember that. No thx, I'll pass on that. We got plenty of moonshine if we wanna drink that bad....:D

[air311]

Shame we didn't win the War between the States we would have abolished slavery and had you Yankees picking cotton to pay for your arrogant attitude and then of course diverted the Great Lakes to the Mississippi and let it flow down to the land of milk and honey.:D:D:D Hee Haw:)

I knew i'd get that responce from someone, just surprised it took so long. You people are easy to get a rise out of, so relax reb, it was all just sarcasm. Yes the Great Lakes are polluted and dirty..but they're our polluted and dirty lakes. And you didn't win the Civil War..real shocker there huh.

[mrs reb77]

Um, if you were referring to me with the reb comment, you didn't quote me. You quoted Glenn. ;)

[sysint]

Well, let's see then, we live side by side with the Mississippi river. I guess it now belongs to Missouri! Everyone else stop taking our water from our river! Get a grip man. What, you think they're going to dig a canal all the way down to Georgia to funnel 'your' water down there? ......
You are amazingly unprepared. Actually there has been talk of piping Great Lakes water as far as Arizona and New Mexico already.

Get a grip girl. Do we think that people could dig a pipe all the way to Georgia or Arizona? The answer is YES.

[royc]

Shame we didn't win the War between the States we would have abolished slavery and had you Yankees picking cotton to pay for your arrogant attitude and then of course diverted the Great Lakes to the Mississippi and let it flow down to the land of milk and honey.:D:D:D Hee Haw:)

Yea, what he said, dang Yankees....:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:

Roy

[mrs reb77]

You are amazingly unprepared. Actually there has been talk of piping Great Lakes water as far as Arizona and New Mexico already.

Get a grip girl. Do we think that people could dig a pipe all the way to Georgia or Arizona? The answer is YES.

Gosh, you're so much more intelligent than the rest of us. Of course, the rest of us may have read the original post and realized I was referring to it and also realized that I sometimes use sarcasm. :eek:
Then again, maybe not.

Oh, and I have heard of pipelines before, our town is very close to Panhandle Gas pipeline--I understand it's a kind of big one. :rolleyes:

[mrs reb77]

Last time I checked, pipelines aren't canals either. Which is what I said. I know the difference. :cool:

[sysint]

Gosh, you're so much more intelligent than the rest of us. Of course, the rest of us may have read the original post and realized I was referring to it and also realized that I sometimes use sarcasm. :eek:
Then again, maybe not.

Oh, and I have heard of pipelines before, our town is very close to Panhandle Gas pipeline--I understand it's a kind of big one. :rolleyes: Whatever. You don't even know what's going on. The Georgia/Tennessee battle is ALL about water. Georgia is fighting Alabama and Florida over water. The Great Lakes region is making legislation because they realize the shortage of good water and that everybody else wants a piece of it.

Your attempt at sarcasm is nothing more than a reality which I've pointed out using your own phrasing which you obviously don't like getting called out on.

Water is close to being a commodity. Good to get the rules down before everybody stakes a claim.

[mrs reb77]

Yeah, I understand that. I posted an article within this thread that I read. Yes, the south is having issues about water. Okey dokey, got it. Sure do realize that.
:o not sure why or what you think you're 'calling me out' on :confused:

I think someone has opposite gender issues. I think it isn't me.

Have a wonderful Friday. It's supposed to rain here again so all that lovely water can go into the Mississippi and provide sustenance to all who use the resource. It's a good thing. We're blessed to be so near it. :p

[sysint]

Last time I checked, pipelines aren't canals either. Which is what I said. I know the difference. :cool:1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. Anatomy A tube, duct, or passageway.

Check again I guess. I understand your comment now. You don't realize what a canal can be.

[k-fridge]

Whatever. You don't even know what's going on. The Georgia/Tennessee battle is ALL about water. Georgia is fighting Alabama and Florida over water. The Great Lakes region is making legislation because they realize the shortage of good water and that everybody else wants a piece of it.

Your attempt at sarcasm is nothing more than a reality which I've pointed out using your own phrasing which you obviously don't like getting called out on.

Water is close to being a commodity. Good to get the rules down before everybody stakes a claim.
It's about water; but it has undertones of commerce and even some radical environmentalism. Georgia recently lost a small battle over downstream release from Lake Lanier because the river levels in Florida and Alabama would drop too for the likes of some critter. Seems we get our priorities screwed up at times.

[mrs reb77]

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. Anatomy A tube, duct, or passageway.

Check again I guess. I understand your comment now. You don't realize what a canal can be.

Huh???? :confused:
Where are you from? I'm from Missouri U.S.A. I speak English. I don't recall asking you for any definitions etc. I posted something to the original poster, you saw fit to tell me I was 'unprepared' for some reason and now you're going on about my ignorance as to pipelines vs. canals.
Do you have a job to do or all day to waste on such nonsense?

Maybe you just need someone to try arguing with? Your first name isn't Ben is it? That's right, no profile info, you could be a 12 year old...

[sysint]

I'm from Missouri U.S.A. -- That can explain alot.
I speak English. ---------- See above.
That's right, no profile info, you could be a 12 year old...-- Then that would be quite the self-indictment

[mrs reb77]

Ah, I get it. You're with the CIA.

Well then, carry on. The rest of us peons will attempt to have human conversations that don't convolute upon themselves for no apparent reason.

[glennac]

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. Anatomy A tube, duct, or passageway. Check again I guess. I understand your comment now. You don't realize what a canal can be.

sysint, if you are making constructive comments on your posts that's one thing but if you are arguing with other folks and challenging everything everyone says and picking everything apart to try and be cute then at least you should give us your profile. Are you afraid to? How about it? How old are you? Where you from? What's your background? job? personal interests, etc. It is only fair. The folks you are challenging have profiles but never ask a woman to give her age. I have and even gave my picture as ugly as it is. I don't have nothing to hide. I hope you are not ashamed of anything in your profile like just out of high school. Waiting to hear from you.

[sysint]

It's about water; but it has undertones of commerce and even some radical environmentalism. ... Yes. And some not so radical environmentalism. Both Air and I are from WI and I think we both agree shuttling out water from the Great Lakes is not a good idea. It was bad enough that Chicago makes the river run backwards and the infestation of non-native animal life, not to mention that everytime you get a large rainfall MMSD (Milwaukee) dumps millions of gallons of crap into the lake which the Department of Natural Resources looks the other way on...

[air311]

On second thought sysint, maybe we should pump water to them. If the wells run dry down south, they might start migrating up this way. That's the stuff nightmares are made of.

[k-fridge]

On second thought sysint, maybe we should pump water to them. If the wells run dry down south, they might start migrating up this way. That's the stuff nightmares are made of.

You could only hope we would come and bring our great economy with us. :D

[sysint]

"On second thought sysint, maybe we should pump water to them. If the wells run dry down south, they might start migrating up this way. That's the stuff nightmares are made of."

:eek:

Actually, alot of people from Texas and Georgia are discovering just how nice Northern Wisconsin is for vacation. You should see the jets flying out of Manitowish Waters on Sunday afternoons in summer. I'll bet Johnny Depp buys something up there after filming this summer.


"You could only hope we would come and bring our great economy with us." We have a terrible business climate from the local governments here and businesses still try to stay. Your economy is a result of that.

[air311]

My town had a chance to have part of that new Johnny Depp movie made here, they wanted to use the M&I bank here to film a scene, and they wanted to use some of the back roads just outside of town. But alas..our braindead city council and mayor screwed it up. My girlfriends dad will be in a scene in the movie though, they used his car in a scene they shot in Columbus. He's got an old plymouth sedan they used. Columbus made a ton of money off that scene being shot there. As for the "great" georgia economy..outside of Atlanta, I hear it aint all that great. There's just a lot of jobs because companies move jobs south..because labor is cheaper. And I know a lot of southerners come up here for vacation. They love our lakes...but then..I guess they just like seeing water in general.

[sysint]

Nice little town. Driven through it many times. They take the Dillinger set to Manitowish to film at Little Bohemia although they aren't saying when.

[air311]

Should be a good movie...I hear Paramount studios is looking at sites in Wisconsin for a big movie as well.

[Carnak]

Whatever. You don't even know what's going on. The Georgia/Tennessee battle is ALL about water. Georgia is fighting Alabama and Florida over water. The Great Lakes region is making legislation because they realize the shortage of good water and that everybody else wants a piece of it.

Your attempt at sarcasm is nothing more than a reality which I've pointed out using your own phrasing which you obviously don't like getting called out on.

Water is close to being a commodity. Good to get the rules down before everybody stakes a claim.

Canada and the Northern States need to keep what is theirs.

[sysint]

Water is going to end up being big business. You have problems with "big oil" -- soon it will be "big water".

[tunnel_rat]

Ever heard of desalination? Alot more ocean in the south than the midwest. I doubt we're gonna need Lake of Fire. :D

[Carnak]

RO and other forms of desal are expensive

[tunnel_rat]

RO and other forms of desal are expensive

So is nationalized health care, but apparently we can afford that also. :D

[Random Guy]

I would not want to live up north. A week of listening to people call Coke "pop", and I would be on a homicidal rampage.

As far as the War of Northern Aggression goes, it lasted so long because we could actually shoot.

About the water, Pond Lanier is pretty low. Something like 14 feet, last I heard. I don't get why us trying to fix the mapping error is such a big deal.

Oh, Air311, I would like to take you up on your offer to send us some snow. I like snow :)

[air311]

I would not want to live up north. A week of listening to people call Coke "pop", and I would be on a homicidal rampage.

As far as the War of Northern Aggression goes, it lasted so long because we could actually shoot.

About the water, Pond Lanier is pretty low. Something like 14 feet, last I heard. I don't get why us trying to fix the mapping error is such a big deal.

Oh, Air311, I would like to take you up on your offer to send us some snow. I like snow :)

The snow's all gone now. The humidity is setting in. Actually had service calls for A/C today..early for A/C to be running here. And do southerners call everything coke? Most people here actually call it soda. But at least we know the difference between coke and pepsi. :p

[k-fridge]

And do southerners call everything coke? Most people here actually call it soda.

Pretty much. Coke was invented in Atlanta so it's the stuff of home boys.

[sysint]

That and RICE beer, which really isn't beer for the same reason....

[tunnel_rat]

sysint, if you are making constructive comments on your posts that's one thing but if you are arguing with other folks and challenging everything everyone says and picking everything apart to try and be cute then at least you should give us your profile. Are you afraid to? How about it? How old are you? Where you from? What's your background? job? personal interests, etc. It is only fair. The folks you are challenging have profiles but never ask a woman to give her age. I have and even gave my picture as ugly as it is. I don't have nothing to hide. I hope you are not ashamed of anything in your profile like just out of high school. Waiting to hear from you.

I think that about sums it up folks...

Have a good night and drive carefully....:D

[Random Guy]

The snow's all gone now. The humidity is setting in. Actually had service calls for A/C today..early for A/C to be running here. And do southerners call everything coke? Most people here actually call it soda. But at least we know the difference between coke and pepsi. :p

We know the difference between Coke and Pepsi. Coke is a refreshing carbonated beverage, and Pepsi is a bunch of junk in a bottle.

[mrs reb77]

Interesting user name Random.

[Random Guy]

Interesting user name Random.

Well, I can be kind of random sometimes, and I am also just some random guy on the Internet.

It is also easy for me to remember.