Yesterday the Governor of the state of Georgia here in the U.S. led hundreds of fellow Georgians in prayer in downtown Atlanta. An extremely long drought, of historic proportions (along with a failure to adequately develop new reservoirs), has left the water supply dangerously low and there is a real threat of the faucets running dry for millions of people in the region. The stories in the press on the prayer vigil were bemused if not just plain amused, and protesters duly appeared, more worried about the imminent threat of an establishment of religion than an absence of water in their taps.

Today (or rather tonight): rain is coming to the area.

405 AM EST WED NOV 14 2007

TODAY: PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHWEST WINDS UP
TO 10 MPH.
TONIGHT: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THE EVENING…THEN
OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. WEST
WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 80 PERCENT.

The weatherman on NBC’s “Today” show this morning said that a couple of inches could fall in the afflicted region.

That’s not a drought-ending quantity, by any means, but it’s a lot better than the nothing that Georgians have been living with. They may well pray that this is only a down-payment.

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