Re: Texas Drought

"Hal Hanig" <halhanig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Yb6dneqspYp2pDrXnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Jean Smith" <gotermite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gotermite-6D2683.16074808092009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm surprised to see the drought in lower Texas continues. I thought they were
drowned last week. http://www.drought.gov/

It will take an almost hurricane to get us out of a drought situation. I've been watering three pine trees in our back yard, 24/7 with a soaker hose, and they are still dying. The sun is so hot it draws the water out of the ground before it gets 8 inches deep. Just about every rancher I know, except us and a ranch that is on the other side of the creek from us has sold ALL of their cattle. If the creek runs dry, which it probably will if we don't get some rain in the next two weeks, we will probably sell ours too.

I can't remember it ever being this bad.



And we up in the northeast have had the wettest spring and summer I can remember. Somehow we must have gotten your share of the rain this year. Well, I do hope you get a good rain or two really soon.

Going from the ridiculous to the sublime, my town is just now getting over having more than 10" of rain fall on us within 24 hours. If I had a pipeline to Texas, they'd be welcome to the shallow lake that appeared in the lot next door and the front of my house.

Hal



Between all the rain and the beaver that has been busily damming up the stream (somewhere upstream from us) which eventually meanders through my back yard, the semi swampy area across the road from our house looks like a little lake.

The Blue Herons who nest there have all hatched, left the nests, and are seen out hunting fish already.

With all the rain, you would assume this year would have brought a mosquito increase, but nature has somehow made this a BIG dragonfly season. Everywhere are dragonflies, and they have kept the mosquitoes in check.

Everything is a lush, rich green. We haven't seen a lot of bears this year because the rain has brought them plenty of food out in the forests, though my neighbor has spotted a couple. They LOVE his bird feeder, and he has to bring it in every night, or the bears come around and try to get at the seeds.

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Evelyn

"Even as a mother protects with her life her only child, So with a boundless heart let one cherish all living beings." --Sutta Nipata 1.8

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