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Stop The Rain Pleae

19 years ago

May 7-inches, June 19-inches, so far for July 9-nches including today' 1-inch.

Yesterday I got 4-wheel ATV stuck in the mud. Went and got the 4WD PU and it got stuck. Then the tractor got stuck. Finally had to go get the dozer. It was quite a site. Dozer chained to tractor > PU > ATV. Made one heck of a mess.

Well the good news is now I have 2 to 5 inches new top soil in some areas and a place to spring some new varieties of grass. Just wish the Red River would leave some of my fields. Good red sand loam though. Anyone need a few metric tons?

Comments (14)

  • 19 years ago

    You can send some of your rain my way towards Denver, CO.
    Thanks!

  • 19 years ago

    We need some rain up here in WI. It actually looks very hot and dry starting next week with highs from 95-100+.

    We're discussing this upcoming heat wave at my weather forum www.wxsphere.com/bb

    If you all are interested in weather, check it out.

  • 19 years ago

    Gee, it's been perfectly lovely here.

    Kidding. Somewhat damp (we're near-normal for July, though). Next week's supposed to be hot and rainy.

  • 19 years ago

    Funny... Rain keeps avoiding my house. Often times, I see a line of storm barreling toward Dallas-Ft Worth only to break up when it finally gets here and regroup south of my area so all I got was sprinkles. That happened yesterday... Stupid weather. I timed it with fertilizing my lawn with soybean meal so the rain would wash them down into the soil.

    What I really want is bi-monthly of 2 inches of slow soaking rain. I don't care much for weekly one inch...

  • 19 years ago

    Yeah, I'll take about 4 inches of that rain, texas. I don't think it rained more than a lick for a couple of months here.

  • 19 years ago

    Cry me a river, TW. We haven't had a meaningful rain here since June 3. For today the weather folk are calling for 60 percent chance of T-storms, but a look at the radar shows they will probably pass just north of us. It's been like that--I've watched good storm cells pass just north and just south, and we've barely gotten enough to wet down the dust.

    A.J.

  • 19 years ago

    Rain? Isn't that something you have up north?

  • 19 years ago

    I am in Mi and put soybean meal down this morning. Small amount of rain drops were coming down, but not much to talk about--wind is starting to pick up. Hope we get a gusher-he..he..

    wxman81 - Thanks for the weather forum link.

  • 19 years ago

    "What I really want is bi-monthly of 2 inches of slow soaking rain."

    Do you mean semi monthly? 2 inches of rain every other month leads to pretty arid conditions.

  • 19 years ago

    I feel your pain. My town has received 35.73" in the last 90 days. To put that in perspective, our usual amount for an entire year is right about 30".

    Here's a SUMMARY of Oklahoma's rainfall.

  • 19 years ago

    Here's a map of the year-to-date rainfall in Oklahoma. My county is north central - it looks somewhat like a train caboose (shows 44.35" up to now).

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  • 19 years ago

    I see it. I found the train caboose.
    Oklahoma would make a great jigsaw puzzle.

  • 19 years ago

    I'm in the heavy rainfall area too.....

    {{gwi:109455}}

    In spite of the massive amounts of rain, and for as poorly as the few surviving plants in my garden look,
    I still was able to harvest these saturday morning:
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    4 nice Cherokee Purples, 3 First Ladys, about 20 SunGold cherries and a nice Ace Red bell pepper.

    I'm glad the rain's somewhat subsided (for now) and the plants (and the lawn) are really appreciating the sunshine we've had so little of during the last couple months.

    Good day, Dan

  • 19 years ago

    Turning green with envy over those CP Toms, they are my favorite and all my plants have produced squat. Only thing I am getting is Sungold, a couple of Marianna's Peace, and peppers.