每天读一篇英语小故事：Drought Attacks Georgia

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　　The state of Georgia is in the midst of a major drought. Experts predict
that, unless it rains “cats and dogs” real soon, the whole city of Atlanta will
have no drinking water in four months. Lake Lanier, the source of Atlanta’s
water delivery system, is now at only 20 percent of its usual level. To make
matters worse, when Georgia water officials tried to block the flow of the
Chattahoochee River southward to Alabama and Florida, those states threatened
Georgia with lawsuits. They claimed that they were just as desperate for and
entitled to that river water as Georgia was.
        　　The Georgia Civil Air Patrol has been trying to seed the clouds overhead
for the last six months, to no avail. State officials asked the local Cherokee
Indians to do a rain dance. The Indians told them they would do a rain dance
when the state returned all the land that it stole from the Cherokees. Officials
hired the nation’s number one water finder. He found a still for making
whiskey.
        　　Finally, the governor himself held a press conference on the steps of the
state capitol building. He asked all the media to bow their heads, raised his
hands to heaven, and prayed. “Lord, we are asking for relief, not for us, but
for the sick and the young in this state. Thank you, oh most powerful Lord.” The
Georgia Association of Atheists immediately sued the governor for conducting
prayer sessions on state property.