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Just to give you some background information, Georgia-- and a lot of the south-- has been in a horrible drought for the past 4 years. Obviously, it's gotten worse. The Lake that gives Atlanta its water supply has completely dried up, so we're under a lot of water restrictions. Another big water problem here is that there are quite a few pipes that are leaking. The government is attempting to fix them, why they've waited this long i don't know. but atleast they've started.

turns out, my grandma has a burst pipe. as far as i know it's either just happened or gotten worse, because you could see water bubbling up through the grass at the edge of her yard. we called the plumber, turned the water off and are waiting for him to fix it. [that was yesterday] so we're going to be without water until thursday or friday.

When Atlanta first got put under water restrictions my grandma set up a water system to her gutter, so whenever it does rain, it'll fill up a barrel that's on the side of her house. So we've been using that and bottled water to bathe/cook/clean/etc.

it's been... interesting. hehe

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Yesterday we decided to go up to the mountains.

I have never been anywhere so peaceful in all my life. The only sound was the wind rushing through the leaves, and that was it.

silence.

It was amazing. I had brought a notebook with me on the trip, so I sat on top of a picnic table and wrote letters and thoughts and nothing at all.

[that's a view from my picnic table]

I could have stayed forever.

After leaving the top of the mountain, we just drove around. We stopped at Helen, which is an old German village that had gone Commercial about 10 years ago before tourists bailed. Now it's just a sad town with rides and a putt-putt that are abandoned. We decided to stop at a funnel cake place, though. It was so good. =]

We passed old abandoned houses and barns. [you know how I feel about those ^_^ B-e-a-utiful] i didn't go inside, though... =[

it was a good day. :-]