Rainfall

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How is the rainfall for the year in your area? I saw on the news this morning that ours is down 2 inches right now. We did not have a lot of snow this year, and that makes it low. I hate to see us down 2 inches when this is the time of year it should be a litle high, not low. It is supposed to rain today, so every little bit helps. It has been several years since we have had a severe drought, and I hope this year is not one of them...

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 09, 2002

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Last summer, our spring went dry for the first time in 15 years. It came back in September. We apparently got everybody's snow. I haven't seen dirt since December. It's raining today. The temps are supposed to be 40's and 50's all week so maybe my garden will pop out!!! ;-) 50 miles from here in Burlington, VT is a whole other story. They had very little snow all winter and are facing a major drought. I'm glad I live in the mountains ;-)

-- Peace and Carrots Farm, Vermont (wsm311@aol.com), April 09, 2002.

Here is western OK we're having a drought. It rained to the east of us yesterday, (I could smell it!! It smelled soooo good!) But it missed this area. We have a burn ban going on, no open fires allowed. If anyone knows a rain dance, please pass it on to me! Thanks

-- cowgirlone in ok (cowgirlone47@hotmail.com), April 09, 2002.

No rain here on the Western Slope of CO., and the snow packs in the mountains are horrible this year. We are headed for a drought. Colorado River Basin is at 52%, Gunnison Basin at 42% and the combined total of the San Miguel, Delores and San Juan Basins are at an awful 20%. On Sunday afternoon, here in Grand Junction, we had a severe dust storm that caused a 30 car pile up on I-70 that shut the interstate down in both directions for several hours. Temps have been in the upper 60's and 70's for almost a month here. Also, one of the irrigation canals here broke and flooded nearly 20 homes. Clean up is still going on from that. I fear it will be a long, hot, dry summer.

-- Billie in CO (bbsowell@earthlink.net), April 09, 2002.

We are way low. Bartlesvill , OK just south is water rationing already. Are pond is bone dry and we are having to haul water to the cattle.On another note, about 50 miles south of us is flooded! Pray for rain our way!

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), April 09, 2002.

Rain? What is rain? I guess that is what they got east of us night before last. I heard it was a ten inch rain, one drop every ten inches :), lol. The dirt and wind, now, that's a different story!!

-- Gina NM (inhock@pvtnetoworks.net), April 09, 2002.


Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over. Civilization owes it's existence to six inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains water. Very dry in southern Minnesota my pond was down over 2 feet last winter and still is not full and all the snow is melted. I got a burning permit yesterday to burn our prairie but the cheif told me to use it quick it could be suspended any day. Did you hear about the big dust storm in China? That was\is huge. We were in San Diego 2 weeks ago and those people are really starting to worry, no snowpack = no Calif.

-- John in Mn. (nostanspam@mywork.com), April 09, 2002.

Ponds are low or dry here in the flint hills of Kansas----we need moisture badly---the pastures need the moisture as well as our wheat!!! If we get moisture it may be too late for the wheat this year---

We are way low ----we need the moisture especially as we go into summer---wells /ponds rivers----etc are all down!!!

-- Sonda in Ks. (sgbruce@birch.net), April 09, 2002.


I wasn't able to get on till this evening. We had heavy rain in the Am but by noon just misty and dark and dreary. We are down in rain about 2" I think was the last report. No snow to speak of this year. Last summer our pond was low. It has come back up some. Now we have a lot of mud to add to the mix. We also had rain over last weekend that helped a great deal. Pastures are turning green and some flowers are beginning to bloom. The "old timers" are predicting a very dry summer here. Time will tell. Billie NE Oh

-- billie jagers (billie@config.com), April 09, 2002.

It had been pretty dry in the Baltimore area of the Mid-Atlantic, until a couple of weeks ago. There is still much more rain to make up.

It has rained every visit to the Homestead. We learn just by coming back east not to complain about the rain in the West.

-- Rick in SW West Virginia (Rick_122@hotmail.com), April 09, 2002.


The drought here in Texas is awful. We have had nearly seven years of drought conditions in my area (lower Rio Grande Valley), and farmers / ranchers are getting pretty desperate. Compounding the problem is Mexico refusing to honor a water treaty, sharing water rights of the Rio Grande River. Mexico owes nearly a million acre feet of water, and growers here have nearly finished their water allotment for the year, and its only spring; summer is our stress time. Gloomy outlook, until things turn around.

-- j.r. guerra in s. tx. (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), April 10, 2002.


I guess we are the odd ones out-we've just been through the worst flooding in twenty-five years and our rain fall is ok -however-we are coming off a three year drought, so I guess its just our turn. We are still down a bit, but we are slowly beginning to catch up to were we should have been three years ago-in other words-our rainfall THIS YEAR is fine, but we have a deficet in the lakes and resevoirs going back three years.

Still though, I'm doing a "Low Water" garden- instead of mounding up raised beds, I'm scooping them to make a trough to catch rainfall runoff, and of course heavy mulching. Hopefully, this will cut down on the amount of watering I'll have to do.

-- Kelly (homearts2002@yahoo.com), April 10, 2002.


i'hve no idea. all of you are.....

-- jose gangzalis (haha@yahp.com), September 16, 2002.

Global warming? Here in drippy Oregon, we've had no measureable rainfall since mid june. Bad news. We also had way below average rainfall last winter and spring. (Wildfire, anyone?)

j.r., it's been a while, but I thought the whole thing between Mexico and Texas had to do with a treaty which required the US to allow a certain amount of water to flow to Mexico in the Colorado River (which is only fair, and legal under interntional law, since the river always flowed through Mexico to the Sea of Cortez until the Corps of Engineers screwed up an irrigation ditch, and diverted the entire river into the lowlands which are now the Salton Sea. This treaty also called for Mexico to give the US a certain amount of water (don't remember how much) from a Mexican River (Rio Concho??) which is probably a tributary of the Rio Grande.

Problem with the whole thing, if memory serves, was that the US started sending the runoff water from irrigation to Mexico instead of Colorado river water. The runoff water was so salty that it killed plants. Mexico objected to this, for some reason.

So what's the current status of the treaty? Does Mexico even have any water in the Concho (?) River to send to the US? Aren't they having a severe drought also?

-- joj (jump@off.c), September 17, 2002.


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