Thinks it's going to rain forever?

I think this is the worst Sept. I have ever had for rain, Oct. looks the same so far.

Send it here... 3 years of drought, only 2 days of some "off & on" rain in the last 4 or 5 months, lakes getting low, wells going dry...and now it's still in the mid-90's in October ...after one of the hottest summers on record. Starting to worry about another "dust bowl" down down here...

gladly send it that way, looks like Chicago got hit hard last night.

BandE wrote on Oct 3, 2006:Go to #3

gladly send it that way, looks like Chicago got hit hard last night.

and last night too

Don wrote on Oct 3, 2006:Go to #2

Send it here... 3 years of drought, only 2 days of some "off & on" rain in the last 4 or 5 months, lakes getting low, wells going dry...and now it's still in the mid-90's in October ...after one of the hottest summers on record. Starting to worry about another "dust bowl" down down here...

Don, I am in So Ark and I hear that round bails of hay are going for up to 100 bucks each out there. Is it that bad?

You guys don't even know what rain is. Now I am not sure if I remember what sunshine looks like. 3 years ago we set a record of 277 days of rain and this year we are going to surpass that with a wide margen.

Sounds like you live in the rain forrest. I think I would have to move. 20 plus rain days in Sept is too much as it is.

Well it's raining again...just for a while and just for today (slight chance this week-end) that makes twice (1 rain each on 1 day, this is the second) since the start of summer... water rationing is starting in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, announced yesterday. Boat docks are 20' from the water on some lakes...again... Locally it would be funny if it wasn't tragic. For 20 years they have talked about our local water supply lake slowly "silting in" losing reserve volume, so there has been talk & plans for an additional reservoir to hold water rather than letting it go over the spillway... NOW they are finally talking about building the thing...and the water has been nowhere near the spillway in years. 5 years ago it got so low there were actually saplings about 4-5" around & 8-9' tall growing between the dam/spillway and where the water was...we got one "reasonable" year of rain that got it up to within 2 ft. of full...nothing since. As usual politicians both local & state have kept their heads in the sand when for years the experts have been saying what would bring our great state to a grinding halt was a lack of water...the cities have kept growing, industry & agriculture keep using more & more and they haven't built a new lake in years (and for those who are geographically challenged Texas (as big as it is) only has one naturally occurring lake in the corner of the state by Arkansas and Louisiana, everything else is man-made.)

Those of us on a well system have no worries. Most folks don't realize that Texas sits on an ocean of fresh water and most cities don't think of deep well drilling as a way to solve some of the water problem.

At least you have plenty of mercury in the lakes.

straightline wrote on Oct 10, 2006:Go to #9

Those of us on a well system have no worries. Most folks don't realize that Texas sits on an ocean of fresh water and most cities don't think of deep well drilling as a way to solve some of the water problem.

Say old buddy...you might want to read up on that a bit, seems all that big-time irrigation has been taking a few more feet every year than mother nature puts back & with the drought it's worse. It they don't start getting "heavy" soaking rains in the west-panhandle area for years in a row, soon, they will be pumping dust out there in west TX in the next 8-20 years (depending on if it rains) and the same things are happening elsewhere. Funny story, in Weatherford (15 miles from me) they have turned worthless scrub land (took 2 acres to run 1 goat) and built all these high-dollar houses with their pools & huge lawns on these 2-5 acre tracts (city folks from up north think they got a ranch...wish I had bought a bunch when it was $200 an acre 25 years ago) Anyhow water is scarce as heck over there unless you go REAL (as in expensive as heck) deep so all these people had shallow wells. Some oil company was drilling and they figure it hit some fracture in some formation or whatever and "poof" a whole area's wells went bone dry at once...the people are screaming but nobody is listening, they don't own the mineral rights and the drillers didn't break any laws or rules or anything...they are just all crying because right as their adjustable mortgage is going up they are having to spend an average $6K to $9K to "go deep" for water Hmmm...in the old days them pioneers always made sure they had water BEFORE they decided to settle

Dry today!!! I got to paint.

Snowing on and off all day here got to work inside on my pole barn

Don, I mean the deep wells not the shallow in the back yard kind, most of what's running now in the west is of the shallow kind drilled befor we could do the really deep drilling. T.Boon Pickins has been trying to sell the water under his land for years, he just want's so much for it that it makes bottled water look cheap.

Did anyone's equipment freeze up? cold here, I had to get my stuff inside.

It got down in the 50's last night (cold for a Texan) and my equipment froze up. The striping machines are fine though.

Well I got 1 day in of striping and it back to a rain again I guess that was our summer this year.