Whining about no rain

[YosemiteSam]

All I heard about was how Texas was getting no rain. So, I flew into DFW on Thursday night about 11PM. It's raining.... and continues to rain until I flew out around 10:30AM on Monday.

Don't know whether to :bang2: or :laugh2:

Of course, while I was away, I hear it was absolutely gorgeous here in the NYC area. I arrive at JFK to rain and expect several days of it. Yep, the same rain I had to deal with in Texas. (this time it's definitely a :bang2: )

 

[Yeagermeister]

:cheese:

 

[tupperware]

I love rain. If it was up to me, It would rain for half the week, maybe more.

 

[LeonDixson]

All I heard about was how Texas was getting no rain. So, I flew into DFW on Thursday night about 11PM. It's raining.... and continues to rain until I flew out around 10:30AM on Monday.

Don't know whether to :bang2: or :laugh2:

Of course, while I was away, I hear it was absolutely gorgeous here in the NYC area. I arrive at JFK to rain and expect several days of it. Yep, the same rain I had to deal with in Texas. (this time it's definitely a :bang2: )

As much as we hate New Yorkers down here (kidding) please come back. The rain stopped Monday and we need a lot more!

 

[CowboyWay]

We are down 10 inches for the year. Most lakes are anywhere from 5-20 feet low. You can't even get a boat in most lakes and if you can, chances are only one boat ramp is open.

We need a hurricane type rain. Hell, we need a few of them.

The rain you were here for was more like a sustained drizzle.

 

[67CowboysFan]

Be sure to come back and visit around May and stay for 3-4 months. We can use the rain.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

In the 50's Texas had one of its worst droughts in the last 1000 years or something like that.

Kindergarten and early elementary school children, when asked to draw grass in the summer would use brown or yellow to show it being dead. I'm of the mind that we're nearing that situation again. I know for the last two years we've beaten the worst two years of that drought in the 50's.

This thing is running at what, 4 years now? The Pacific temperatures have already shown we'll get another drought this coming year.

A buddy of mine went to Daytona this summer as an assistant coach with a kids basketball league. He sent me a text message showing how much green grass there was on the side of the roads. On my entire drive to work I paid attention to the roadside. Not even the weeds were alive.

We had more green grass in October than we had in May through August.

All of Dad's stock tanks dried up, minus the one that has a windmill pump.

You know its bad when you'll see an article or two each month about a lost town, graveyard, or archaelogical site found because the level of the lakes are so low.

 

[lane]

All I heard about was how Texas was getting no rain. So, I flew into DFW on Thursday night about 11PM. It's raining.... and continues to rain until I flew out around 10:30AM on Monday.

Don't know whether to :bang2: or :laugh2:

Of course, while I was away, I hear it was absolutely gorgeous here in the NYC area. I arrive at JFK to rain and expect several days of it. Yep, the same rain I had to deal with in Texas. (this time it's definitely a :bang2: )

trust me on this bro..

i've lived in southeast texas all my 44 years.

this summer was the hottest, driest, most brutal summer ever since i've been alive.

 

[DragonCowboy]

trust me on this bro..

i've lived in southeast texas all my 44 years.

this summer was the hottest, driest, most brutal summer ever since i've been alive.

It was hitting 110 on a consistent basis.

Rivaled summers in India. It was terrible.

But I'd rather have that than sub-freezing winters. I already got sick, and right before finals.

 

[Temo]

Seems like they should just send for you when they need rain then.

 

[Yeagermeister]

We got two days of non stop rain and today it's snowing. :laugh2:

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

We got two days of non stop rain and today it's snowing. :laugh2:

We have had the rain as well and I think it is going to turn to snow sometime around noon.

Yuck.

I hate the cold.

 

[YosemiteSam]

trust me on this bro..

i've lived in southeast texas all my 44 years.

this summer was the hottest, driest, most brutal summer ever since i've been alive.

I lived in Texas until Jan 2005. (32 years minus small stints in San Diego, San Francisco, and New Orleans) I remember 1998 and 1999 and it's 29 and 24 straight days above 100 respectively, though I somewhat recall 1980 and it's 42 consecutive days above 100. (69 total that year) I was only seven then so, it didn't mean so much to me at the time. That said, 1980 is considered the hottest year on record, though maybe not the driest. (For D/FW anyhow)

 

[Duane]

It's really been horrible here. So many trees have died and I can't imagine what it must have been like for the farmers, ranchers and livestock.

 

[notherbob]

It's really been horrible here. So many trees have died and I can't imagine what it must have been like for the farmers, ranchers and livestock.

We thought we had lost our trees in 2000 when they all lost their leaves in mid-summer when we had our last major drought but they all came back after it rained. In fact, two weeks after that two year drought ended with a big rain event, everything greened up again and you could not tell there had ever been a drought. Landlady Nature is amazing.

I live on a cattle ranch in the heart of Texas, twenty miles from the monument marking the geographic center of Texas and we had 100 F on April first and the daily high temp stayed mostly over 100 all the way through September with only a few days in the 90s and one day at 89. This year our high was 110 whereas in 2000 that was the daily average with a lot of 113 days and one 116 day. This year we had no spring with February being our coldest on record with pipes and water pumps burst from Albuquerque to Atlanta. Not our hottest summer, though, just our longest and now we hear that these will be a second consecutive La Nina just like 1999-2000.

We had to sell off the lower half our registered Hereford breeding stock in order to try to save our best half whose genetics cannot be replaced. We also have brought in a couple of bulldozers to greatly deepen our large main earthen tank and bought three semi loads of alfalfa hay and paid to truck it in from North Dakota in order to try to get them through the winter since no one anywhere around here made any hay.

It takes some pretty good coin to try to stay in the cattle business long enough to go broke these days.

We're lucky, though as we just got a life-saving 2.5 inches of rain over the weekend so we will have a fair amount of water going into what is forecast to be a dry winter.

We're thankful we don't have any traffic lights out here and we rarely hear a siren.

We know we will survive this drought like we have others and while things are a little iffy right now they will get better in time.

Life is good.

 

[YosemiteSam]

We thought we had lost our trees in 2000 when they all lost their leaves in mid-summer when we had our last major drought but they all came back after it rained. In fact, two weeks after that two year drought ended with a big rain event, everything greened up again and you could not tell there had ever been a drought. Landlady Nature is amazing.

Yep, the trees shutdown to protect themselves from the drought. They drop their leaves and stuff so they require less water.

Nature is just straight up kick***. It's similar to the way the human body will stop circulating blood to it's extremities to conserve heat. It would risk losing fingers, toes, nose, etc to save itself.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I lived in Texas until Jan 2005. (32 years minus small stints in San Diego, San Francisco, and New Orleans) I remember 1998 and 1999 and it's 29 and 24 straight days above 100 respectively, though I somewhat recall 1980 and it's 42 consecutive days above 100. (69 total that year) I was only seven then so, it didn't mean so much to me at the time. That said, 1980 is considered the hottest year on record, though maybe not the driest. (For D/FW anyhow)

2011 kicked 1980's *** all over the place.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ewx/?n=100degreedays.htm

Not sure about their claim of consecutive days of straight 100 degree days though. The news ran a spot about it in late July saying we had broken the record of more than 46 straight.

The earliest I can remember a 100 degree day was the last week of February, maybe 1997 or 1998.