Hours after the feds and the state agreed that we only had 79 days ’til we were left high and dry, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issued a revised plan that would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to cut water released from Lake Lanier by 5%.

According to 11 Alive, that would extend the water supply to over a year.

Florida is displeased.

UPDATE: Fresh Loaf urges residents to put down their firearms regardless of the new plan. The agreed upon “79 days” reportedly doesn’t count the ominously-named “dead pool” below the dam gates. From other articles I’ve read, the dead pool has many additional months of water in it. But if it is below the dam gates, the “79 days” may instead be a deadline for the arch-nemesis mussels downstream.