Mobile Is Setting Records For Dryness

(Mobile) Press - Register ^ | 7-18-2006 | Bill Finch

[poobear]

Well done! My expertise is in accounting.

[blam]

It could always be worse:

Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico

"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague"

[blam]

"My expertise is in accounting."

Retired chip-maker here. (TI)

[EdReform]

We're not doing much better up here around B'ham. It's been over three weeks since it's rained on my place, and that was only a tenth of an inch!

Glad to hear you got a little rain. Hang in there!

[Danette]

Your "sprinkler well" ???? How does this compare to regular wells for your home? AND how does this affect wells in general?

[Romulus]

We too had a record drought, extending even pre-K. The driest ever on record. It finally broke about 10 days ago, with several drenching, wide-ranging thunderstorms that were desperately needed. Finally now we seem to be back in a more normal pattern.

[poobear]

Well, good job dude and thanks!

[blam]

"Your "sprinkler well" ???? How does this compare to regular wells for your home?"

Shallow wells, not usually used for drinking water.

[highimpact]

We don't have a well for potable water. All the homes in this area (the ones with sprinkler systems), get irrigation water from wells. The water table has dropped by about 20 feet this year, so ours needs to be sunk deeper in order to find a good water source.

[blam]

" I lived in the mighty metropolis of Semmes."

Nice rural town. Local news just said we have three cases of EEE, two sentinal chickens in Grand Bay and a horse.(Didn't catch where the horse is)

[LM_Guy]

Right now in Fort Worth - Naval Air Station area it is 107 degrees and still climbing..

ARGHHHHH!!!!

[Alas Babylon!]

Wow, Poobear, thanks for that! Folks, that's from NOAA, and they're calling for severe drought from Louisiana Eastward along the Gulf shore up through central Georgia. Puts me right in the middle of it. :-(

I think we need a very weak hurricane/tropical storm to take the Ivan track up through Alabama.

[Alas Babylon!]

Oops.... Looks like Blam already posted the map!

Shoulda read the thread instead of posting directly from pings!

[poobear]

Yeah, Florida was crying for hurricanes back in the 90's when all the lakes were drying up. How soon we forget. I got that link from researching El Nino. Funny how we haven't heard about this naturally occurring cycle in years. Could it be that this is going to be a severe El Nino cycle and these globalists are using this extreme weather phenomenon and blaming it on GLOBAL WARMING? Ya think?

[SunkenCiv]

I've been getting enough rain for both of us.

[SunkenCiv]

Well, see, now, here's your problem...

[blam]

LOL. Bush and Rove must have sent those down here because of the Katrina flooding. Someone forgot to turn them off.