high and dry in Georgia

We are experiencing this year's unusual drought first-hand in Georgia. Being from Florida, we would usually be complaining about too much rain. It is so bad that you can't even wash your car at home (you can take it to a business that washes cars.) As the saying goes now: "take pride in your dirty cars and brown lawns because you are conserving water!" Atlanta is even going to run out of water pretty soon if it does not start raining. Most of the water in Atlanta is supplied by Lake Lanier, which is at least 16 feet below normal. You can read more about our weather condition in an article from US News & World Report.com titled "High and Dry in the South." At stephenrahn.com, this blogger posted a map showing how The Chattahoochee River begins as a trickle in the Blue Ridge Mountains, then flows in and out of the man-made Lake Lanier (constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950's.) The map shows the many ways this river is used as it flows through the state of Georgia, before it's name changes to become the Apalachicola River (which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.)