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To: Red_Devil 232
Good morning. Don't know what to report today. I got this in my email today. If that happens, we will be out of water in Texas.

Drought could last until 2020, state climatologist says

4 posted on 09/30/2011 5:37:05 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Wow! Y’all will have to set up some massive desalination plants all along your coast if this happens.


7 posted on 09/30/2011 5:42:52 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Arrowhead1952

That’s just awful. And here we just had that major flood. I drove around a nearby town the other day and it was sad to see. The water line was so high, I could tell many cars had to have been completely submerged.

They say that there is now a housing shortage around here because so many homes have been made uninhabitable.

Our particular little town wasn’t quite as hard hit. A few of our neighbors have piles of flood debris (basement stuff) in front of their homes - no one has any idea when it will be hauled away. Good thing we are into colder weather with all the mounds of debris everywhere, pests will love those mounds. We were very lucky in that we didn’t have a drop enter our home.

And you poor folks don’t have any water. I wish there were a way to “even up”.

As to my garden. Esssshh. I think there are some potatoes hidden in the tall weeds, and I know I have some carrots left to pull. They take forever here. I think there are some herbs left also.

I didn’t get a single head of cabbage. Just as I solved the rabbit problem, the white butterflies took over. No sauerkraut for me this year.
Turns out our “cantaloupe” were really muskmelon, and stupid us thought they went bad because of their color. LOL. But we only wound up with three anyway. Tomatoes struggled, but we managed a couple of bushels. Barely. So on and so forth. A few tiny pumpkins too.


11 posted on 09/30/2011 6:03:50 AM PDT by Ladysforest
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To: Arrowhead1952

Yeah, they said the same thing about California’s drought in 1976-77.

“it’ll take years to fill the reservoirs”, they said

El Nino kicked in and the reservoirs were releasing excess water in 6 weeks.

If they tell you decades of drought...prepare for a flood.


40 posted on 09/30/2011 10:27:05 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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