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Posted on 07/17/2011 12:06:07 PM PDT by re_nortex
Wichita Falls has exceeded 100-degree highs 39 of the past 40 days. There was a string of 100-plus degree days before that. By this date in a normal year, Wichita Falls would have received about 16 inches of rain. This year it has been just over 3 inches. Forecasters are not optimistic about substantial rain between now and September.
Wichita County Extension agent Fred Hall said he has talked to old-timers who remember the severe droughts of 1956 and 1980. They recall those droughts started later in the year and there was residual moisture in the ground to help forage.
"There's simply no moisture bank this year," Hall said.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.timesrecordnews.com ...
I had bought 10 pecan trees to plant at Toledo Bend but have kept them at pots at the house so I could keep them watered.
Beef price may fall with the selling of cattle but the following year, beef will be costly.
It happened on his watch, so it's "Obama's Drought".
Although he didn't cause it any more than George W. Bush steered Katrina toward New Orleans, I have little doubt that the usurper is taking great pleasure at the suffering and economic loss triggered by the drought here in Texas.
I have some 2 gallon drinking water jugs that I poked a couple of pinholes in the bottoms. I fill them with water and set them over the roots of my maple saplings. It takes about two hours for the water to drain out and seems to be working well.
If Kansas did not naturally suffer regular droughts, it would support forests instead of savanna (grasslands). If you can't tolerate droughts, don't live in Kansas.
Here’s the corrected URL for the ABC News story about lakes and swimming pools in Oklahoma City:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Weather/extreme-heat-scorches-dallas-oklahoma-city/story?id=14046745
Yep, they will get higher
It’s all part of a natural process. More animals will survive because of the human population and food and water being supplied to them, that they would have never had, prior to a human population several hundred years ago.
This is also why the deer population has been on the increase in the last 100 years.
The ranchers will recover also, even though we hate to see them hurting. It’s like the laws of “Survival of the fittest”. Those ranchers who built extra water and food storage for times like these will survive and prosper.
The Tropics are waking UP. Good chance of another Hermine, sooner or later.
Nautinurse about to get something!
The USA Corps of Engineers and AmerenMissouri (the utility that owns Lake of the Ozarks) are holding back almost all water from Truman Reservior and the Lake of the Ozarks to allow the flood to pass on the Missouri.
Our water smells fresh and clean and there is plenty of it.
Air temp: 98 F
Water: 91 F.
Toledo Bend Lake is expecting record lows this year.
Several boat ramps are out of business as the ramp no longer reaches the lake.
It would no surprise me if we had an active hurricane season.
I am hoping for a hurricane or tropical storm and I hope it comes right here to our ranch here in east Texas. I have about 150 head and it is bad. I am luckier than most. Many are simply selling out.
It’s the worst drought we’ve ever experienced in the 25 yrs. we’ve had the farm. We don’t have a large herd, about 20 momma cows and calves, but the 3 stock tanks are so low we believe we will be out of water by the end of next month.
The grass is crispy and short from grazing and no rain means no more grass. Hay is almost impossible to find. The farmers are baling the corn and sorgham stalks to sell as filler (not much protein in it). Corn was severely stunted from lack of rain. We’ve been feeding cottonseed meal every day to supplement the cows, trying to make it thru the drought, but decided today to sell off the older cows and keep the younger cows because they have a better chance of making it thru. That will knock the herd down to less than half. But hopefully we will have enough hay to keep those going. Will still have to worry about water. We are about 90 mi. S of Dallas. Please say a prayer for rain for all of Texas!
Yowser! That’s looking rather menacing. Thanks for the heads up.
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