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oldsoldierfadingfast

(376 posts) Tue May 19, 2026, 10:32 PM Tuesday

An ad on Roku ...

that I just saw twice in an hour wants to use rural VA for a data processing center. We have been in a severe drought for years. The local ground water level is down 5+ inches. Our once full creeks with small waterfalls are now trickles. Our rivers are way down. Our trees are dying. We were dependent on Fall tourism along the Blue Ridge Parkway and Sky Line Drive as a source of income for our county as people came for the show of color. There has been nothing to see for several years. Looking from the windows on all 4 sides of my home at the fall colors in the mountains that surround me was once a pleasure; that is now gone.
Mid- and eastern North Carolina are dependent on our water. Philpott Dam has so very little to send.
This is farming country with very little water for crops. Once known for our apple, peach and grape orchards ... My own cherry and apple trees have died. We are dependent on wells and septic tanks except some towns with community water. Our local dry-cleaner-laundry mat is closing due to the high cost of water and electricity to run their operation. Our recently opened hospital and other health facilities were dependent on them.
Driving on our highways (and my own drive-way) you see fallen dead trees laying on the ground instead of the greenery that was there just a few years ago. Recent wild fires along our county line caused us much concern and fear.

My heart is crying. But, my head is telling me to let them build their damn expensive plant and THEN find out - we have NO WATER!

Tell me, my bro. and sis. DUers, do I listen to my head or my heart?

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An ad on Roku ... (Original Post) oldsoldierfadingfast Tuesday OP

Here in the southeast corner of AZ, where the deer and antelope are dropping dead... Attilatheblond Tuesday #1

The massive building in Florida has sucked the Aquifer going down, down, down... chouchou Tuesday #2

I don't know what to say about our country Figarosmom Yesterday #3

Do you ever wonder ... oldsoldierfadingfast Yesterday #4

Yes, Figarosmom Yesterday #5

Attilatheblond

(9,249 posts)

1. Here in the southeast corner of AZ, where the deer and antelope are dropping dead...

Reply to oldsoldierfadingfast (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 10:41 PM

Tuesday

The 'river' has water if the summer monsoons come, but water only for a short spell. We have a state of the art sewer water filteration system that puts some very clean water back into the river bed at a point but that is mainly to recharge the fossil water that is being sucked dry by the needs of expanding rural population.

The next valley over has had it's aquifer sucked nearly dry. Homeowners with 400 foot deep wells are left without water due to huge corporate agriculture lowing that water table to were people can't afford to drill deep enough, can't sell their homes, can't turn on the tap.

And the idiot GOP county commissioners have stars in their eyes about how great the new data center will be.

Yeah, fuck those guys.

chouchou

(3,313 posts)

2. The massive building in Florida has sucked the Aquifer going down, down, down...

Reply to oldsoldierfadingfast (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 11:18 PM

Tuesday

.also with a draught that we've never seen before..
And the developers buy the politicians like they always have,,,Grrrrrr

Figarosmom

(13,420 posts)

3. I don't know what to say about our country

Reply to oldsoldierfadingfast (Original post)

Wed May 20, 2026, 01:30 AM

Yesterday

Anymore. We are becoming a wasteland fast. Being depleted of every resource that can be stolen.

oldsoldierfadingfast

(376 posts)

4. Do you ever wonder ...

Reply to Figarosmom (Reply #3)

Wed May 20, 2026, 01:50 AM

Yesterday

what will happen after ALL the oil has been sucked out of the ground? Especially when we know it was thousands and thousands of years in the making.

Figarosmom

(13,420 posts)

5. Yes,

Reply to oldsoldierfadingfast (Reply #4)

Wed May 20, 2026, 02:07 AM

Yesterday

I also wonder what happens to the land on top of all those hollow areas. What rushes in to refill them? Sinkholes?

I watch a lot of foreign TV and I see a lot of turbines in other countries while we are going backwards.

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