Drought and Survival
- Thread starter dogghr
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Nice...we are starting to get really dry again after our reprieve earlier in August. It’s so bad it’s hard to do the work I need to do because my air filter clogs so fast on the dozer...dust is horrible. No rain for us so far, hot, sunny, dry, and windy...
KSQ2
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A buddy just sent me a video from Bartlesville, OK. Keep in mind, that’s 32 miles south of our farm. That’s the place that has had over 6” of rain in the last month. It’s freaking POURING there again. The system that was heading our way took an abrupt turn to the SE. I cannot express how old this is getting. Widespread drought isn’t as hard to swallow as this.
KSQ2
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2.5 hours ago this entire freaking system was on track to give most of SEK Kansas a good soaking, we had a 100% chance for rain. It got right to us and went south 40 miles, then proceeded to turn straight east AGAIN and continue. I’m spitting bullets right now. Enjoy it once again NE OK!!!!!
If it’s any consolation it missed both my farms...I drove down to the other farm in mid Cherokee county to do more clearing with my dozer and on the way I picked up 6 paper 50 lb bags of corn at the COOP. About 3:45 pm I noticed it getting really dark north of my position which would be our 90 acre home place and I remembered I had left my power tools out this morning after working on the chicken coop so I made a dash for the house. When I got on Moody road it started pouring on me and I had all those paper bags of corn in the bed of my truck. I figured my tools were getting soaked at home so I hurried and when I got 1/2 mile from the house it abruptly stopped and I was in the dry again. Hit the dirt road and dust was just boiling and got here and as I suspected, not a drop. Our next shot is A 30% chance September 8th
KSQ2
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I hear ya Okie…If it’s any consolation it missed both my farms...I drove down to the other farm in mid Cherokee county to do more clearing with my dozer and on the way I picked up 6 paper 50 lb bags of corn at the COOP. About 3:45 pm I noticed it getting really dark north of my position which would be our 90 acre home place and I remembered I had left my power tools out this morning after working on the chicken coop so I made a dash for the house. When I got on Moody road it started pouring on me and I had all those paper bags of corn in the bed of my truck. I figured my tools were getting soaked at home so I hurried and when I got 1/2 mile from the house it abruptly stopped and I was in the dry again. Hit the dirt road and dust was just boiling and got here and as I suspected, not a drop. Our next shot is A 30% chance September 8th
Scratch that...now the 30% is on Saturday the 10th...
MarkDarvin
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Have you considered renting some excavating equipment or tearing the shingles off your house? That seemed to bring rain for me over the years.
KSQ2
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Yep, I've seen the SW corner of MO miss rain after rain. The drought monitor map I use just shows KS, and it covers the bottom 5 SE counties all in extreme drought red, I'm sure it extends over to you.
Meanwhile, my brother-in-law up in Bolivar has gotten rain, after rain, after rain, and the same for Northern AR.
