Rain ?

TWO GUNS

TWO GUNS

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Been 41 dayssince we have had rain >>> and before then, it was just 2/10 for about 13 days.</p>


Not only is itvery hot and humid, itso dry, Temps are reaching 97-99 easy !!!! Farmers crops are burning up >>>> much is going to be lost because of this drought & heat .......</p>


State of Louisiana is under a burn ban >>> </p>
 
Wish I could send you some of ours! rain every day for the last 10 days. We got one field cut and ended up tedding the hay 3 times to get it dry enough to bale. Ended up baling last sunday morning and the rain started as they were finishing loading the last big bales on the truck. Our hay is so tall you could not see the neighbors cows when they got loose a couple of days ago. Supposed to have a dry weekend finally.</p>
 
We got so much rain late night that the entire county is under a flash flood watch. Sure would like to share some with you boys.</p>
 
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Having been raised on a dairy farm close to the Quebec/Vermont border, I can certainly appreciate the aggravation the excess rain in these parts is having on the annual haying season. Also the lack of sunshine and heat is having an adverse affect on the local corn growers. The local saying "1st of July, Corn knee high" is hopefully not an indication of crop yield to the people whose livelyhood depends on it. </p>


The unseasonal weather has driven me inside where yesterday the leaking overhead heater in my F3060 was repaired by replacing the 5/8 hoses. Today the RTV whose new hard cab has been installed is getting the heater installed. (got to keep these projects for rainy days). It may be July but colder (snowy) weather is down the road.</p>


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send it down here we need it bad bought 1000.00 dollars worth of mud tarsand next thing you know we get a drought??? maybe i should have bought a nice set of dirt tars and we would have some nice mud hole then.</p>
 
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I did see a cloud the other day, it was headed the other way >>>></p>
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that wasn't a cloud that was the after burner smoke from a jet. on a seriuose note we have been getting a afternoon tinkle everyday for about 10 minutes but it does very little to dampin anything up infact the ground gets wetter after the plants finish crying from wishing it had lasted longer. i water my garden in the marnin and evening and during the day . i tend to forget when was the tast time i watered it so when i pass by the hose i turn it on and go to spraying i don't use the sprinker no more after i forgot it on for a day man that was the greenest the garden ever was. the wife kept asking me all night what was that ticking sound ??? oh well atleast she wasn't as mad as the other day. you see i told her that when the sex got really good i was gonna tell her so i called her up from my girlfriends house to let her know it was getting pretty darn good!!! i'm a smart man though i never showed her how to load my guns and shoot them.lmao </p>


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now back to the rain in a way it's kinda good we ain't getting any because if a tropical storm comes through and drops 20" in a day or so it won't have such a devistating affect on us like it would if the dround was already saturated. these little afternoon sprnikles doo just enough to keep the grass green and that it. now it's not helping with the heat any so thats gonna hurt us for a storm the hotter the water the hotter the storm comes in..</p>
 
you know i have been thinkin of how lazy and stupid man is we will build a pipeline across thousands of miles across many countries to get oil from one place to another but yet we one invest one dime into makine a pipelime inside the united staes for the same reason why can't we run a pipeline out of the miss, river and run it across the country with a bunch of tributaryies coming off it and so on til it can feed all the states and in the times of flooding just shut the vales at the river and reverse it and you can pump into it. if we can move a few million barrels of oil a day through a pipeline then we can damn sure move some water the same way those brush fires in california would be a thing or the past with pipelines to this day i still don't see why they don't have huge tanks on top of them hills with pipelines running to them and little lines running down the hills for the fireman to tie into sure it takes time but hey it takes time and money to fight a fire and rebuild a house too and instead of a chopper dropping water on the fire he could drop it into the tank if its running to low. i have thought about this for yearsand even mentiond it to a few cali guys but they said you know how much that would cost? or how much work is involved? but hey we ran a water pipeline to the desert and created a city called vegas !!!! now look at it . we are always running gas and little water lines for subdivisions why not start thinkin of the future i wish i had the money or atleast some rish friends i sure would do the pipeline thing you know howmany farmers would benefite from it there would be no more droughts that word would not be used anymore in the united states.</p>
 
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why can't we run a pipeline out of the miss, river and run it across the country with a bunch of tributaryies coming off it and so on til it can feed all the states and in the times of flooding just shut the vales at the river and reverse it and you can pump into it.</p>
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Not as simple as it might seem, Tommy. They have pretty well tried this in the West, using the Colorado River to water southern California and many other points in between. But there simply is not enough water in the river for all the uses to which they have diverted the water, from crop irrigation to city drinking water--including trying to water Las Vegas. It has resulted in an environmental disaster which is only now really beginning to become evident. I suspect the folks in LA would be a bit miffed if they ended up with a trickle of water in a dried up river bed once all the Mississippi water had been siphoned off up-river for the needs of whoever.</p>


Some who study these matters say that water will soon be fought over the way oil is fought over now. It's not much talked about, but a significant factor in much of the Middle East conflict is not oil but water. Unless we figure out how to manage and conserve what we have, we will not have enough to go around. Deep underground aquafiers are drying up. And a big culprit is the typically wasteful ways we irrigate--with a very large percentage of the water simply evaporating before it ever does any good for the crops.</p>


Part of the issue is simply human stupidity. Building massive cities in deserts where there is no water and no way to grow anything to eat without massive irrigation projects is foolish and ultimately totally unsustainable. But I guess we learn not to touch hot stoves by burning our fingers.</p>


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Thinking about water and the potential impact of engineering water distribution, it is worth taking a look at what happened to the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, reckoned by many as the single greatest ecological disaster in human history. You can check it out at: http://www.africanwater.org/aral.htm or do a Google search around Aral Sea. Suffice to say that I am reminded of an old margerine tv advertisement with the tag line: "It's not nice to mess with Mother Nature!" Trying to fix one problem very often leads to other, and sometimes far worse, problems. The Aral Sea is a good example of how badly things can go wrong.</p>
 
the aral sea is a salt water sea though thats what caused thier problemswe would be spreading freshwater not salt water. as for as messing with mother nature you got that part right ever sinse they have put up levees and tried to make the miss,river go where they wnat it to go we have been looseing our coast line if they would have let it go where it wanted to go we would have more coast line but no N.O or maybe we would we never know but as long as they try to control the river it's gonna erode the coast and not let the sediment deposit where it should..</p>
 
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the aral sea is a salt water sea though thats what caused thier problemswe would be spreading freshwater not salt water. as for as messing with mother nature you got that part right ever sinse they have put up levees and tried to make the miss,river go where they wnat it to go we have been looseing our coast line if they would have let it go where it wanted to go we would have more coast line but no N.O or maybe we would we never know but as long as they try to control the river it's gonna erode the coast and not let the sediment deposit where it should..</p>
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You are correct of course about the Aral Sea being a salt water sea--but it used to have enough fresh water coming in from its tributary rivers to keep it 'fresh enough' to support a fishing industry and be generally healthy as a 'normal' salt water sea. Now it is pretty much a dead sea--so salty (because of concentrating as it evaporates) that fish cannot survive and many other problems--and this because of taking away nearly all of the incoming water to provide irrigation for the Uzbek cotton industry. My point is that massive redistribution or reshaping of fresh water resources historically has usually had very negative long-term consequences--as you point out about the impact of all the levees. We need to be more humble in our relationship with Mother Nature, imho.</p>
 
Two Guns : that must be why we are having our 3rd sunny day in a row! Fellas are here baling and cutting more hay as I write this.</p>
 
It's 2:30 pm >>> we are at 4 1/4 inches now >>>> ground has done suckedall of that up already ~~~~</p>
 
I am glad for you Two Guns, but please send any extra our way. I think we got less than 1/2 inch. I am proud of that , but could use more. The ponds we just had dug are still dry but the grass isn't crunchy anymore. Bordercollie</p>
 
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Now heres a thought concerning the lack or abundance of rain. Redistribute fresh water. Sounds a little like 'redistributing wealth" and then hope for change. We might get our present administration to appoint a 'Water Czar' and have ACORN oversee the project. How long ya think it would take before we were all running on empty?Grrrrr.</p>


Sorry bout y'all with no or little water to grow your crops. Without water we are indeed a pretty helpless lot. In our neck or the woods the farmers are working the hay crop between rain showers. Of course as you can imagine, the hay, corn, soybeans and other crops and garden produce are looking pretty good right now. But,,,, of course,that all could change in the matter of several weeks. And thats farming........</p>


Keifer, a RTV wannabe</p>
 
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