Name:   BAJ - Subject:   Lake Martin gates at the dam now operational Date:   2/20/2020 5:49:02 PM

Like I said: "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."" That's not a crime, of course; there's not even anythiing wrong with it. But it was your choice. You COULD have adapted and continued to enjoy the lake; you just CHOSE not to. Some of us thought it added a different element to that summer's enjoyment; I know I found some underwater structures that I had no idea existed. Going through that every year would require permanent changes, but for that year -- and the occasional years before and after -- it was fun, in its own way. (And I understand about being back in sloughs; like I said, tying up to our dock was impossible by mid-July. So we didn't tie up to our dock. But we didn't put the boat away, either.)