Groundwater has come to the rescue, and for a while it seemed a miraculous solution: drill a borehole, pump the stuff up from below and in due course it will be replaced.
Now, on Friday the 29th of June 1975, movie posters appeared in cinemas all over the USA with the now notorious words: 'You'll never go in the water again'.
In due time the boats were lowered; but as standing in his shallop's stern, Ahab just hovered upon the point of the descent, he waved to the mate, —who held one of the tackle—ropes on deck—and bade him pause.
The water table has risen so much now we've got standing water everywhere, and the other detail you probably don't want to know is that the long drop too is completely full.
It meant fresh pork for the white folks and chitterlings for the negroes when cold weather and hog-killing time should arrive, and it meant food for the winter for all.