We have received just dozens of loopy proposals from well-intentioned folks who want to help the county avoid the looming Weiss Lake catastrophe. One gentleman suggested that we have a county-wide water drive, wherein thousands of Cherokee County residents could each run a gallon of tap water into a jug and on two or three designated days each week show up en masse at one of the local marinas and pour their donated water into the lake. He even suggested making a little ceremony out of it. It could turn into a regular tradition, like the old days, when they used to throw live turkeys and pheasants off the roof of the Big E at Thanksgiving time. A Leesburg woman advised hiring scientists from Auburn University to see if water wasn t leaking out of a crack in the bottom of the lake somewhere, and a sweet old lady from Sand Rock asked if anyone had checked to see if the fish in the 30,000 acre reservoir had been drinking more water than usual due to last summer s drought.
Most animals drink more when it s hot and dry.
That would certainly account for some of it, she said. So again, I would not consider publishing your song. I d have to be awfully hard up for material to do something like that.