Name:   BAJ - Subject:   Lake Martin gates at the dam now operational Date:   2/18/2020 10:59:04 PM

That was 1986 and yes, the rains of Memorial Day Weekend were the first in almost two months, and the lake level never got close to full. But "no lake activities?" Not even close to true! Adaptations were needed; by August we were tying the stern to the dock and anchoring the boat well offshore. But my friends and family probably put in more lake-hours that summer than any before or since (and I have been on the lake literally since I was born, which was in 1961.) In fact, that was the summer I learned to barefoot, and something like that doesn't happen without spending hours on the water.

The conditions were even worse in 2007, but again, "no lake activities" couldn't be further from the truth. We have a very deep lake; letting low water keep a person off the lake is more a condition of that person being unable to adapt to the conditions than it is of water levels being "too low."