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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 1:06:34 GMT
Why ppl in the Dust Bowl or Winter blizzards went crazy. This constant rain has me at my wits end! Ugh! Is it so much to ask for a week of dry weather? Going on 5 wks of nearly daily rain.
Sorry to cry about rain. I know some dearly need it. I so wish I could send it your way.
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Post by mollymckee on Jul 10, 2015 1:31:30 GMT
I would love to trade you a week of 90+degree sunny weather for some rain!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 1:39:23 GMT
I feel your pain, except I feel it conversely. Here it has been five weeks with just 3/4" of rain spread out over that time period and the average highs have been about 95*F. With that kind of heat and the winds constantly blowing, everything around here is pretty much dry as a bone
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Post by hobbitlady on Jul 10, 2015 1:44:35 GMT
I sure understand although here it's been too much heat. Same effect;can make a person crazy. Our month of early 90s and 100s have given way to a nice hard rain today for a whole hour so far. I'm sure glad I can skip at least today's garden watering. This is forecast to be a May week in July for us.Suits me,of course I'm just glad they were Right for one day at least...  Unfortunately there's a lot of thunder and lightening and I'm just hoping that since this is the first time a lot of water is coming down with it, that it won't start more wildfires. Every storm blip has started some the last two months. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 2:08:31 GMT
Understand totally... Here in upstate PA..rain is every day almost. My poor garden is a mud hole. Just say to myself probably in the next week it will stop and we won't have rain for months. Rain barrels are filled to the top. Garden plants are yellow and laying in mud...The raised beds are hanging on..Actually dug up some plants to put into buckets to leave on deck just to have a tomato or 2 to enjoy if the garden fails..so..just hoping it stops..and can save my garden this year. But...on the bright side. My well will be filled and the wter supply won't be in trouble this summer. Keep the umbrella's up..and keep hoping for sunny skies..
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 2:26:36 GMT
In times like these we need to be especially thankful for food availability in our pantries and also at the grocery stores. During the dust bowl those folks didn't have the options for food like we do.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 3:35:24 GMT
Not speaking against the rain, always consider the alternative.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 10:08:37 GMT
Some rain is good, too much bad. I'm watching gardens rot, meadows being ruined, basement soaked. We can't get hay up, so how will we feed livestock this winter?
I am thankful that I have food, I am thankful for the cool nights. I am thankful that the grass is green and not dried and burnt. God has blessed us there. I'm just ready for some drier weather. I would gladly ship a week of rain out to y'all for 90 degrees at this point!
I actually feel that I'm struggling with seasonal depression like I do in winter and it's mid-summer!
Nothing to do tho, we can't control the weather and must trust that HE will pull us through. Thanks for listening to me vent. =).
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Post by Skandi on Jul 10, 2015 11:33:30 GMT
I understand the rain issue. earlier we had way to much, everything so wet couldn't move. last month or so has been about perfect, but wind.. now the gales today and yesterday, those I could do without.
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Post by mzgarden on Jul 10, 2015 11:59:45 GMT
As with most things, moderation is more appreciated than deluges or droughts. We are up to our ankles in mud, having lost several garden crops thus far. Tried to bush hog the pasture to stop weed heads from seeding -- had to back the tractor out of the mud pit using the bucket as a pusher. Our nearby cattle farmer has gotten only 9 round bales this year so far, generally he's over 100 by now. Not saying it's worse than drought, just saying moderation would be more appreciated.
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Post by Awnry Abe on Jul 10, 2015 12:33:47 GMT
Not speaking against the rain, always consider the alternative.
Rockpile Given the two extremes, I'll take drought over rain. I can add water in a drought where necessary. I can't take water away. Both are mentally exasperating, but in drought you have options. |
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Post by stickinthemud on Jul 10, 2015 13:18:25 GMT
I've heard an old saying: 'In dry years farmers complain, in wet years they starve.'
Around here I've seen several fields of cut hay lying in rainsoaked fields unbaled, rotting. I fear hay prices will be high and availability iffy. Hopefully somebody, somewhere is having a good year.
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Post by susannah on Jul 10, 2015 13:42:27 GMT
We had rain most of the days in June but never a lot. Just enough to (quite often) change our plans. I hear you on the frustration of being ruled so much by the weather but in a different way - the 2013-14 winter season gave us 135 inches of snow and 68 days with temps below zero. It seemed like I'd just have to THINK about going out and we'd get a snowstorm or -30 degrees F. I don't think I've ever felt so cooped up and/or trapped before.
Lately we've changed to a pattern of one day with a lot of rain (2.5 inches Monday, for example) followed by a long (5 days or so) dry stretch with no rain. My rain barrels are still overflowing every time it rains. Be interesting to see what the next month brings, weather-wise. Seems it's always a surprise.
I can't complain about the weather we've been having because we've had no flooding this year and no drought weather in my area (YET. The weather can turn on a dime, it seems). While parts of the state less than 100 miles from me are painfully dry - and others have had too much rain. I wish the rain would stop for those of you who have been getting way too much, and move on to even it up for those of you in a drought. I strongly dislike both extremes - having lived through both, I don't know that I'd want to choose either one. Last year was overly wet for us - with some flooding - but we had a number of drought years several years back and the water level in the lakes and some wells was very low. Neither extreme is good.
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Post by horseyrider on Jul 10, 2015 21:03:26 GMT
Why ppl in the Dust Bowl or Winter blizzards went crazy. This constant rain has me at my wits end! Ugh! Is it so much to ask for a week of dry weather? Going on 5 wks of nearly daily rain. Sorry to cry about rain. I know some dearly need it. I so wish I could send it your way.
Ever read a book called Giants in the Earth by OE Rolvaag? It was required reading in my high school honors English class. I learned from that book how people could go mad in a place so powerful and remote as the Dakota Territories. I've never forgotten it; and days when the snow gets so deep and the days are so short, I think of those pioneers who lived with no TV, no internet, no phone, no radio, sometimes nothing but their own increasingly crazy thoughts for company, and believe me, I get it. The book was both masterful and chilling, beautiful and terrible.
www.amazon.com/Giants-Earth-Prairie-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060931930
And I'd like to be done with the rain. The skeeters are ready to carry us away!
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Post by dutchgirl on Jul 10, 2015 21:42:19 GMT
Couldn't we design the perfect summer? You know, rain when it's needed, sun when it's not. Lol, I am doing my share of complaining, for sure. Too much rain here so that the garden is being overrun with weeds. Oh well, maybe next summer will be perfect.
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Post by Rustaholic on Jul 11, 2015 0:41:10 GMT
I am strongly considering a hoop house garden that I can roll back the covering when the weather is going my way. I know that don't work well with field crops but it sure would make for a great garden. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 17:14:20 GMT
Yea I think some one stole my state. Rain in July? Who ever heard of such a thing? So far I have over 7 inches. Must be state fair time. No wait that is September. My garden problems with water have been solved with compost.
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Post by stickinthemud on Jul 12, 2015 14:56:43 GMT
Perfect summer? I remember one summer when temperatures were mild and day after day the sun shone. About sunset clouds appeared in the west and moved in. Overnight showers fell. As dawn approached the clouds dissipated and then another beautiful day. I think Valhalla was supposed to be like that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 0:19:52 GMT
Well,
I guess that I should be a little bit more careful about what I wish for...
Earlier today 3-1/2 inches of rain fell at my place. All of it in less than 2 hours. Actually it all fell in a 1 hour and 40 minute time span. Very much needed, but it would have been a lot better if it took its time and fell over a 24 hour or so period.
Obviously, most of it ran off rather quickly. Hopefully the next rainfall will be a little bit more leisurely. |
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Unfortunately there's a lot of thunder and lightening and I'm just hoping that since this is the first time a lot of water is coming down with it, that it won't start more wildfires. Every storm blip has started some the last two months.
