The grass is starting to turn a little brown in northeast pa. I was just wondering what a D4 classification drought is like......Any of you want to chime in?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

 

Our well went dry. We had to haul water for a while. Had to do the wash at the laundromat. Terribly dry. Everything just died. Crops just wouldn't do anything. Soil was like dust. Couldn't burn your trash because just one stray spark would set the whole place on fire. Even when you tried to cut the weeds and your mower hit a rock and caused a spark sometimes it would set stuff on fire. We would get all excited over the slightest shower or storm. Because we were a farming area people were kinda on edge and irritable as it got longer and longer.

A few years later it rained so much we had record flooding though. People couldn't get in the fields and people had their places flooded out. Go figure. Everything goes in cycles. In the 30s it was a terrible drought over much of the nation that devastated the nation and helped kick off the depression.

We're dry now. Hopefully we get some rain soon. My corn is getting ready to tassel in the next couple of weeks.

 

We are now getting rain, I am on the gulf coast.Feast or famine as for as the water goes....Hurricanes,or extended dry spells....we are stil 10 inches below our table....But every thing has greened up real well....corn lookd good..

 

ya its dry as hell up here too. We got rain yesturday and today...the only 2 days i get off work [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] . Its so dry up here too, trying to ride sucks, dusty as hell.

 

rained in scattered showers yesterday but can't tell this morning,dug a sewer sevice in on mon and 14' down bone dry in clay soil ,getting bad .work for a city ,looking at total water bans soon .this is in Minnesota

 

It just keeps going around us. Some places will get 3 inches of rain a few counties away on the same night and we won't get a drop. It seems like the storms just fall apart as they get to us. I'd love to get a few days of good soaking rain. 3 or 4 inches over a several days. I'd pay good money for that.

 

talking about farmers that if we don't get decent rain the next 2 weeks well lose up 90% of the corn crop

 

We are at the other end of the spectrum(northeastern Oklahoma)....we had flooding for the last month. All area lakes are up. Lake Ft. Gibson was up to 29' above normal. I am not bragging, just stating how different the conditions can be in other parts of the country. Farmers cant get into the hay fields because of the rain and mud. We had a refinery leak over 100,000 gallons of oil when it flooded and they reported today they are buying all the houses that the oil and water damaged(the oil on top of the water was over 8' deep in one town of Miami, Oklahoma

 

Here in southeast Texas, we are typically about 27" of rain by this time of year. This year has been the wettest in 41 years with 47" thus far. They said we are already at our yearly average. Everything is soaked and fishing has been terrible. This last week was our first week without any rain since mid May. I am trying to get my stands off my old deer lease to move to another one, but it is muddy and has about 2' of water on most of the trails. Thankfully the new deer lease is not in the flat land, but in the rolling hills of east Texas piny woods. Anyway, if you need some rain, we can ship it to you....LOL.

 

We finally got a couple of rains last week that totaled a couple of inches all together. The ground was actually muddy for a day or two and we had mud puddles. It's all dry again. The corn look looks better but I think it was too little too late. We needed it a three weeks ago. No real chance of rain for the next week they say and the heat is gonna be brutal.