All kiddin aside, Texas is in trouble.
Gotta have some rain.
It's gonna take a tropical storm maybe two catch us up.

I've been to the point of wishing for a tropical storm when we got really short of rain. Then we get a storm and I'm thinking what the hell was wrong with you, you friggin' moron. Such is life.

Bob

I've been watching this drought unfold over the last month's. In some areas parched ground covered in grass hoppers. $5.2 billion in agricultural losses. (a low end estimate) so far. This does not take into account the suffering on part of farmers and ranchers. It's the second major drought in 5 years. Many folks will give up. Then we'll all suffer. All I see on my idiot box is the suffering abroad. Just wait.

I don't see any Texans whining about it though. Tough bunch.

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SOS USA

Boy, ain't that the truth! Rain should even clear out some of the smog in Dallas. I can see haze, just looking across a large parking lot. I'm pretty sure that it had something to do with my asthma flare last week.

Rain? you got Rain?

I can measure the amount of rain in the dust on my trucks....count the drops (if there were any....) and they are discouraging a wash job due to the falling aquifer level

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On the Oak Savannah

Check your Indian, If yours is imported the rain dance won't work.

That really sounds horrible. And I've been whining about all the rain we've been getting this summer. Sure wish we could send some to Texas for you. Just looking at our 5 day rain forecast.

20% This evening
30% Thursday
40% Friday (when I leave on a motorcycle ride)
10% Saturday
50% Sunday (when I return)

I'd be glad to send some rain down your way. This feels like the rainiest summer on record. The grass never dries out enough not to clog the mower. Skeeters are thriving. Mold. The puddles in my driveway never quite dry out.

I feel for you, my sister lives in Whitehouse (about 7 miles east of Tyler) and as of last week they had had over 40 days of 100+ days and no rain.

The last 10 years in this Country have been horrific. '01 you had 9/11, '05 Katrina, '10 the BP oil spill, this year Tornadoes and drought. These are events that stand out in my mind, but I am sure there were other tragic events I have overlooked. It is terrible to see American's suffer.

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Fidelis Ad Mortem

Pretty dry around here also. So far this monsoon season we've had .82" of rain. Not enough to get a lizards belly wet for very long. A good source for rain information is: CoCoRaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network an org of civilian rain gauge owners who report their daily rain totals, lots of good information.

On a bright note, look how much we are saving on windshield wipers.

Dry rot will catch up though

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I miss my 4546 the most.

First though when I saw the OP's pic...

Dang... Just dang...

I hate seeing these kinda things. It's tough enough to survive in this economy, but when you add in droughts like Texas is having, I feel so sorry for those of you who have to go through it. My prayers for you, and for rain.

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Misty

Most of El Paso got over an inch in less than 15 minutes. Boy, did we ever need it. Therre's rumblings out there right now, and if I had any sense I'd shut down this computer in case of a power failure.

Later; It's raining; and I haven't lost power. Wonders never cease.

60+ days of greater than 100 degree temps. Virtually no rain. If we could only trade heat for water!

Out
West

Great news, I hope the rest of Texas starts getting some.

Been there, done that with the drought thing. A series of droughts from 1977 through about 1985 changed me from a full time farmer into a school teacher. There are few things as disheartening as watching crops wither and die in the field.

In 1977, fertilizer that we applied to crops in mid-May was still on the ground, never dissolved by rain, in late July. ABC news sent a crew down to do a report. The crew, including camera men, sound men, gofers, and reporter David Snell spent half a day on my farm. At one point in the interview, with Snell and me standing in the midst of a field of vegetables that we were desperately trying to keep alive with irrigation water, Snell asked me what the outcome would be if we didn't get rain soon. "That's easy," I told him. "We just won't be able to pay our bills at the end of the season." The segment ran about a week after the interview, probably a two minute section on the news. I was probably on camera for at least half that time, either answering questions or with us walking in the field, Snell doing voiceover. The morning after it ran I was in the cafe eating breakfast. My banker came in and sat down across the table. "It 's a hell of a note when one of my customers goes on national TV to tell me he ain't going to pay me," he said.

It is funny now. Not so funny back then. I know how you folks gong through this feel, and I'm praying for you.

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Georgia On My Mind

For some reason, I thought I was going to see a thimble when I opened this thread.

step son's house burned a couple of weeks ago....had a guy come out with a track loader (CAT 920 or 950 series, can't remember) and he dug a hole about 9 feet deep to bury the trash in.....at the bottom of the hole the clay was so dry and hard he could hook the clay with the bucket teeth and lift the back of the tractor off the ground AND the clay would not break.... and the dust was and still is like talc.....

Nope. We use a thimble during the wet years.

oh my word! thats disturbingly funny!

Liberty Hill, 62 + days of 100+ degrees(105, 107 etc,etc.) today it's 104.

1/2 inch of rain since last Oct. There is no grass. We're gettin' hay from Mo. and Okla...It ain't cheap.

The oak trees are really suffering. But would you believe the Cedar trees are drying up as well?

Speaking of Cedar trees my cows are starting to eat them (never saw that, ever) They eat the leaves from low lying Oak limbs, that's normal (keeps your land pretty clear) But Cedar? Damn...

We're all just hunkered down and waitin' for rain and SEPTEMBER

And speaking of the heat my Dog was chasing a cat today, and they wuz both walkin' Come on rain

Frank