Drought and Survival

[KSQ2]

The “floods” are supposed to begin today. We’ll see…..

 

[KSQ2]

Not sure about the floods as of yet, but there is a beautiful rain out today. Some of those spring thunder showers you dream about.

 

[MarkDarvin]

Wow, I can’t even imagine trying to baby a property through drought while dealing with that kind of distance. My hat’s off to you.

I Always assume drought and flood are just around the corner. I don’t have the capability to water. I have to get my water over the winter and trap it all with mulch. That goes for gardens too.

I’m gonna be about 5” deep in wood chips this year. Very good chance my soil never gets rain this year, and what does fall will hang up in the woods chips.


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[MarkDarvin]

Last fall and this spring I’ve been adding a second shot of wood chips to stuff that hadn’t been mulched in a couple years.

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[T-Max]

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[KSQ2]

Well, the rain wasn’t quite as widespread as I thought, which I should be used to by now. We got 1.5” here at the house; 13 miles away at the farm we got less than a quarter.

 

[KSQ2]

Not a drop today, meteorologists are so inept. How can they be so bad at their jobs? I’m guessing tomorrow will be more of the same.

 

[Drycreek]

Not a drop today, meteorologists are so inept. How can they be so bad at their jobs? I’m guessing tomorrow will be more of the same.

People don’t expect weathermen to be right, at least I don’t. What good is a seven day forecast if they change it the second day ? We were supposed to get rain today but it all went N of us, but it took the tornado activity with it so I didn’t mind much. I planted three plots yesterday and the day before and the ground was plenty damp. I documented it in my “Leaning” thread. My home plot was nearly too wet to plant on the lower side.

 

[MarkDarvin]

Not a drop today, meteorologists are so inept. How can they be so bad at their jobs? I’m guessing tomorrow will be more of the same.

The dark side is waiting for you…

Join the drought resistance.

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[MarkDarvin]

I get anxious if I have less than 4 yards laying around. Had 18 brought in last fall and I’ve been hauling and spreading. Probably burned up a quarter of it already, and I’ve got more to do.


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[KSQ2]

We CANNOT FREAKING catch a break!!!!!!!! Two freaking years of this crap, storm after storm after storm…… The dry line is right on top of us literally, the storms are riding it bringing torrential rainfall within 30 miles and NOTHING on us.

 

[KSQ2]

This line of storms stretches through 3 states; guess where the line ends??? Notice the “flood warning” just to cruelly rub it in…

 

[KSQ2]

The final round finally got us overnight, better late than never. Ended up with 1.8". Not a pond filler, but we'll take it. Still need real runoff before summer, or it's gonna be really bad for my in-laws. They still have 4 large ponds that are extremely low and will dry this summer if something doesn't change soon.

 

[Drycreek]

Raining like a cow whizzing on a flat rock here, right now ! We are the blue pin. I don’t mind the rain, although at this point it will all run off. What I do mind is these little red boxes that indicate tornado warnings !

 

[cutman]

The final round finally got us overnight, better late than never. Ended up with 1.8". Not a pond filler, but we'll take it. Still need real runoff before summer, or it's gonna be really bad for my in-laws. They still have 4 large ponds that are extremely low and will dry this summer if something doesn't change soon.

You should be getting nailed right now.

 

[KSQ2]

You should be getting nailed right now.

Pretty good rain, it is lingering for a little bit this time, which is nice! Rivers are still up big from the rains to the north this past weekend.

 

[LetThemGrow]

Is it worth living like that?

 

[Drycreek]

We have had record flooding in what we call “Deep East Texas” which is S of
Lufkin to Houston. Record water release from Lake Livingston, the Trinity River as well as the Neches River have flooded US 59 below Livingston. It is clear now, but yesterday morning it was closed. This is a major route from Houston N to Texarkana, etc. Much of the city of Livingston was under water. I haven’t seen that in my lifetime. More is on the way, when it rains it pours ! There used to be a much revered weather guy in Dalls named Harold Taft, he had a saying, “droughts are followed by floods, and floods are followed by droughts” I’m praying he’s wrong this time.