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Name:   UncleSam The author of this post is registered as a member - Email Member
Subject:   Wakely asks a good question
Date:   7/16/2013 12:35:59 PM

If the issue is nothing more than higher water, why isn't the lake as busy in the first few weeks of September than it is all summer? Most of the time there is very little difference in the temperatures or the water levels, yet the number of people on the lake drops considerably. If those people aren't coming in September, I don't see them coming in January.

It's easy for some business owners to look at a possibly longer season and see nothing but good. But if you have a business with a high overhead, and you decide to keep summer hours all winter, you MUST draw a summer like crowd. You have to bring in a certain amount of people just to break even, because you have payroll to meet, power bills to pay, and inventory to buy, and that's money out even if no money comes in. And on the shoestring budget that many if these places must operate on, that's money they can't afford to waste.

If we truly want this area to become more of a year round community, it's not the water we need to improve; it's the school systems. All of those summertime people from Mountain Brook and Vestavia and Hoover aren't going to put their kids in a local school just so the parents can live on the lake. And if you took a close look at all of those boats you see in July that you wish we're here in January, you'd see that most of them are full of kids.
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          Why You Must Attend Lake Martin's FERC Meeting - RickLake - 7/15/2013 5:48:49 PM
               Why You Must Attend Lake Martin's FERC Meeting - John C - 7/15/2013 7:03:48 PM
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                    Wakely - centerpleasure - 7/16/2013 9:07:27 AM
                    Wakely - Tbone - 7/16/2013 9:55:17 AM
                    Wakely - wix - 7/16/2013 10:29:15 AM
                         Wakely - John C - 7/16/2013 12:08:18 PM
                              Wakely asks a good question - UncleSam - 7/16/2013 12:35:59 PM
                                   Wakely asks a good question - Tbone - 7/16/2013 3:34:24 PM
                                        Wakely asks a good question - RickLake - 7/16/2013 3:56:11 PM
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                                                       Wakely asks a good question - lakngulf - 7/17/2013 7:15:23 AM
                                                            Wakely asks a good question - RickLake - 7/17/2013 10:06:03 AM
                                                                 Wakely asks a good question - Summer Lover - 7/17/2013 10:27:17 AM
                                                                 Wakely asks a good question - jalcz - 7/17/2013 11:33:46 AM
                                             Wakely asks a good question - jalcz - 7/17/2013 11:36:13 AM
                                             If the school systems were better we would move - TotheLake - 7/18/2013 3:05:44 PM
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               Wakely - jalcz - 7/17/2013 11:45:04 AM
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               Why You Must Attend Lake Martin's FERC Meeting - Mack - 7/17/2013 7:08:50 PM
     Why You Must Attend Lake Martin's FERC Meeting - greycove - 7/19/2013 12:38:50 PM


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