Want rain?

AndyMarquisLive said:
We've got plenty, been a heavy downpour all day long.
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Same here. Had to double clean the gutters. The gauge on the deck was overflowing at 5 inches. Enough, send some to Texas and Oklahoma.

BTW, this reminds me of a commercial with Davey Allison.
 
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3.95 inches since just midnight Tuesday. Now we having flooding...again. If there was a way TRL I'd gladly ship you some.
 
My suggestion to Andy: 18 wheeler tankers hold about 5000 gallons. Railroad tankers hold about double that, 10,000 gallons.

Fill a 50 car rail train with water and haul it down here!
 
Just heard from Jim Cantorri that total rain fall from Lee was over a trillion gallons of water. If spread out over the entire state of Texas, it would measure only a half inch. They would need a foot more water to get back to normal. Now that shows how bad it really is.
 
buckaroo said:
Just heard from Jim Cantorri that total rain fall from Lee was over a trillion gallons of water. If spread out over the entire state of Texas, it would measure only a half inch. They would need a foot more water to get back to normal. Now that shows how bad it really is.
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That's how bad it really is. 1/2" wouldn't even lay the dust.
 
Texas hasn't just been hot this summer. It's in the midst of its worst drought since the 1950s and enduring its driest single year going back to 1895.

The heat and lack of rainfall have clobbered agriculture. An early estimate shows crop and livestock losses at $5.2 billion. That figure was expected to rise. The drought and scorching temperatures have burned grazing pasture and rangeland, forcing ranchers to severely cull herds. Ranchers keeping animals are paying high prices for supplemental feed or the cost of transporting their animals to states with grazing land.

Producers who planted more than 2 million acres of cotton that rely on only rainfall to grow in the world's largest contiguous growing patch around Lubbock abandoned their fields.

Texas' economy will take a more direct hit. Agriculture accounted for $99.1 billion of Texas' $1.1 trillion economy, or 8.6 percent, in 2007, the most recent year data on food and fiber was available from the extension service. Losses in that sector have a ripple effect that's about twice the amount of the actual agricultural loss.

Grasses, vegetation and trees around the state remain tinderbox dry and wildfires have destroyed more than 3.5 million acres since last November, about when the drought started. Just this week, hundreds of homes were destroyed when wildfires raged southeast of Austin.

Fish and other wildlife are struggling as lakes and rivers are drying up across the state and more than 850 water suppliers have implemented mandatory and voluntary restrictions on usage. Two Central Texas springs relied upon for life by eight endangered and threatened species are perilously close to levels that will require an evacuation by federal wildlife officials.

The U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday shows that not a speck of Texas is out of drought, and more than 81 percent is in the worst category. A year ago just 15 percent of Texas was abnormally dry, the least dry status on the map.

Other states in the southern U.S. also are in drought. Almost all of Arizona and Oklahoma are in some drought stage. All of New Mexico is mired in drought, with about 38 percent of it in the worst stage — exceptional. About 70 percent of Oklahoma is in exceptional drought.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/Texas-has-hottest-June-August-129475458.html
 
I think the news said we've had 24" of rain this year, 8" behind normal?

La Nina is also being expected, which means Winter won't bring any help.
 
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