Yep, Bird, and now they have reservoirs built to supply the metro-plex with water all the north to Ok and east to Texarkana. They were trying to build another on out here a couple of years ago, but the locals shot it down.
When I was little back in the 50's and we had that big drought, the drinking water got kind of skanky. I remember going with my grandmother to Skillern's Drug Store in Cedar Crest Shopping Center to buy drinking water in a cardboard milk cartoon for Sunday Dinner. (During the week we just drank it out of the faucet.) This was long before we had all this bottled water that everybody is carring around. That was what started all the "Lake Building" out here in East Texas.
Charlie
Charlie, I'm sure I'll always remember the drought of the '50s. My Dad bought a Texaco service station across the street from the courthouse in Marietta, OK, in June, 1956. A propane truck had blown up on a bridge on U.S. 77 between Marietta and Ardmore, so all the highway traffic was detoured through Marietta and up through Lake Murray State Park, then back to U.S. 77. So we did a booming business that summer; could hardly keep up. However, the drought was so bad that local farmers were hurting, the Chevrolet dealership next door to the station went under and closed up. And that Fall, they got the bridge rebuilt and re-opened the highway and our business fell to nearly nothing.
But we got lucky, a big city retiree who wanted to move to a little town and have just a little something to do showed up and even after going over the books, bought that Texaco station and we moved to Plano, TX, where Dad bought a Mobil service station.
You know it was quite common for people to add tap water to their battery when needed, instead of distilled water, and that skanky water you mentioned supposedly ruined a lot of car batteries. Dallas was getting water all the way from Lake Texoma and that Red River water wasn't the best for drinking or car batteries.:laughing:
And even now, everyone agrees that we need more reservoirs, but not in my backyard. So it takes longer and costs more to get one built.