I find this disturbing...

[Major 2]

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in several ways....but compellingly interesting.  (the continued drought in Texas , the death of baby )

In this Oct. 5, 2011 photo, a child's grave site, normally at least 20 to 30 feet underwater, has joined other remnants of old Bluffton, Texas, resurfacing on the now dry, sandy lake near Bluffton, as the Texas drought shrinks the state's largest inland lake.

In the series of photo's there are the remains of Ghost town, normally in 20 feet water....

more....http://texasescapes.com/MikeCoxTexasTales/147BlufftonTexas.htm

[Shotgun Franklin]

Yeah, at Falcon Lake an old Mexican Village surfaced as the water level dropped, an old cemetery was left exposed. Supposedly fisherman were looting the graves, especially taking skulls. If true it was a sorry affair.

[Don Nix]

The graves that were un covered is terrible but the drought is what is really disturbing.
 We have no grass and the water  table is falling  and wells are going dry and we live in constant fear of fire.
 I have recorded less than an inch of rain since March amd the OAk trees are dying or dead.
As I write it is almost 80 degrees and the anticipated rain has gone west of us .
 But we'll give thanks for everything God has given us and be thankful we dont live where there are a bunch of morons "Occupying" and pi$$in' and moaning about how hard their life is.

[GunClick Rick]

What the heck they doin under water anyway?

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Rick,

This is not that unusual a phenomenym (sp?) .... Folsom Lake (As in the city of Folsom, or 'I hear that Train a'comin') is shaped kinda like a hand in a peace sign ... and there was a mining communty called Mormon Island right where the 'fingers' meet ... and it only is available for access whenever we have an EXTREME drought ....

But there was the opposite problem after the flood of 1850 ... people had been buried in extremely shallow graves ... which they popped out of as the waters raised ... and for years afterward, peoples remains were found in trees downstream ...

[Major 2]

What the heck they doin under water anyway?

"...For those who lived in and around Bluffton, a problem nearly as enduring as granite was periodic flooding along the Colorado. To permanently deal with that issue, and to generate electricity through hydropower, far-sighted folks for years had talked about damming the river. A private effort to build a dam failed, but federal money made available during the New Deal was sufficient to do the job.
When all the engineering work for the long-contemplated dam was completed in the mid-1930s, residents of Bluffton received some hard news - the town would be inundated by the new lake...."

The current drought has the old town resurfacing as dry land  ( keep in mind the old town was under 20- 30 feet of water ! )

[GunClick Rick]

I just figured they would have moved the dead...But i guess like in China the new damn and lake will cover vast amounts of antique acient cultural structures and homes.There was a little area at the bottom of our lake,my grandpa worked on the damn up there,what's left of it can be see when the lake is down,just figgered graves would be a little different.

[Major 2]

in fact they were ...
"...The first to leave were the occupants of the Bluffton Cemetery, who were exhumed and reburied. Then the living moved to a new town site five miles west of the then 72-year-old community. Finally, all the old oaks in the vicinity were cut and burned so that the new lake would not have any hidden obstacles to recreational navigation. "



The Historical Marker makes mention of the cemetery being build in 1930 by the Emery, Peck and Rockwood Development company and donated to the town in anticipation of the construction of the Buchanan Damn."

They may have missed some .... or in the case of the little fellow nothing left to exhume  only the loney stone marks his passing

[Tuolumne Lawman]

More pictures....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/texas-drought-ghost-towns-graves_n_1104563.html#s487933