What time is it?
Well, it's 7:45 on a stormy Sunday evening. That must mean it's time for the neighbors on Avondale Drive to be ignoring their dogs again. I love the philosophy of keeping your dog tied outside 24/7 as a watchdog. So that when he barks for two hours straight you can ignore him.
Feh.
Feh.
Labels: bad neighbors, Dogs
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4 Comments:
Watch dogs that you ignore - you've gotta love the irony. Kind of like being under a flood watch during a drought.
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Todd, at 8:24 PM
One of the reasons why i've been trying to make the argument lately that "drought" is the wrong way to be thinking about our water issues.
Here's what the NWS says in its flood warning for Wake County this evening:
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES
Excessive runoff is one of the problems we have in managing water supply. Because we've added so much impervious surface to the watershed, when we do get rain, so much more of it washes directly into our creeks and rivers, and not into replenishing the water table. So when we go a couple of months without rain, the groundwater supply is too low to keep the reservoirs full.
Not to mention all the pollutants and excess nutrients carried into the streams by all that runoff.
It's a problem that requires a different way of thinking than our elected leaders have so far shown.
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Barry, at 9:30 PM
I agree completely. There are many things that need to be done to address our water supply issues, on both the supply and demand sides.
But maintaining Stage 3 water restrictions right now is not one of them. Since our reservoirs and Falls Lake are full (or as "full" as the Army Corps will allow), all we seem to be accomplishing is to send more water down the Nuese.
The council was way to slow in implementing the restictions last fall, and they are sticking to that pattern in (not) lifting them.
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Todd, at 11:10 PM
i'm not uncomfortable leaving the Stage III restrictions in place for a while longer. 2x a week for the vegetable garden is adequate for now. And it's a good idea to keep conservation in people's heads.
For the long-term, as i've written before, Stage II and Stage IV restrictions are crisis management tools. They are no substitute for the hard decisions that need to be made to ensure adequate long-term water supply. At the point where our decision makers abandon their responsibility to make those decisions, and solely rely on crisis management techniques to deal with water issues, then we have a problem. We're close to that stage, but i don't think we're there.
I'm willing to wait and see what the Council does with the tiered water rate proposal in front of it now. I don't think it's perfect, but it's a start. If they fail to pass it, either as-is or with modifications, that will be a bad thing.
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Barry, at 11:46 AM
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