Posted on 08/29/2011 2:02:24 PM PDT by JNRoberts
“This looks like this is it,” said Ted Ryan, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. “The end of summer is coming up.”
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Which would probably be me!
Just kidding.
But we are going to be hard-pressed for hay, my pastureage is all down to something that looks like the Sahara. I’m 80 m. n/w of San Antonio in the Hill country.
I guess we are going to have to get it from Colorado or somewhere. I have not heard how it was in OK for hay.
About 109 here today but some pop-up rainstorms seem to be on the way. The poster from New Braunfels will get it first, then us. Please let it come on!
Then take your ass back to California then.
Wichita Falls. I have a friend in Houston who told me yall are way behind on rain too.
I know you usually get quite a bit, even during the summer.
Since April, I believe I’ve personally seen about 10 minutes of rain. :-/
>>>I never suggested they should. It’s just not for me!
Been there done that. >>>
Yes, I was just saying how they feel about people who don’t like their State. Heck, I hate the summer too. But I’ll NEVER go back to California. Been there done that. My blue eyed blond wife got tired of getting flipped off by Mexicans and I got tired of everything else there but the Mexican food itself.
Our plans?....A summer condo in Southern Oregon where I can ride my KLR 650 to San Francisco for Chinese Food and then back home. And of course spring, fall, and winter at our principle home in beautiful Texas.....We hope to make that happen soon.
*****Wooooboy. One year I went on a business trip to Albuquerque in November. When I left AZ it was short sleeve days with sweater nights. Alb had snow blowing sideways, I about froze to death.****
Reminds me of 1966 basic training at Lackland AFB San Antone.
Got there March 1, froze. One month later it was so hot we left to go to Chicago dressed in summer blues.
Landed in Chicago and it was cold and snowing with blowing wind. Thought we was gonna freeze before we got to the AFB at Rantoul.
OK...you stay in your $500,000 2 bedroom duplex and I will stay in my $139,000 3/2/2. And we have no state taxes!
We have some very pretty lakes in Texas...crystal clear....
Don't even bother crossing the state line.
When I was up in Quang Tri saw the start of Lam Sahn719
they had to stop bringing troops up there from the south
they had to bring field jackets band poncho liners asap
Great news rain chance for Texas...hope you guys get a
good rain
I’ve lived in Texas for 10 years but I’m ready to throw in the towel and move to Arkansas. This is beyond ridiculous and is expected to last into 2012. I’ve had it.
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591060/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314657724&sr=1-3
Just a cool book about early TX...and the Comanches.
Man, I'm part Indian...and I learned lot's about many things...from reading this book. The stuff I was never taught in school...etc.
It’ll get better...or it won’t ...but better here than anywhere else. After being out of state for 30 years I do appreciate our red state; killer temps, droughts and all.
” Finally got to take the family to our local I/O in Allen. ...”
HUGE line around the block when they first opened; I wouldn’t have been anywhere around there but I was in pursuit of an ‘incursion’ by a commercial operation into the GMRS band (doing DF with a Yagi in that area) ...
I can remember summer days in SoCal. At the beach, surfing, laying around....then that evening wearing light jackets, and sweaters.
I walked out of my house a few days ago around 0430... ( it's been over 100 for much of the last two months )...and it was 69-70..I needed a windbreaker. Ha!!
Dang, I spoke too soon about the cooler temperature. The sun came out and it’s up to 105. We will see what happens the end of the week, but as proud_texan said I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. This will pass and we’ll go on to have one of our beautiful winters.
Smelled orange blossoms a couple times a year. Watched the DisneyLand fireworks from our pool slide.
Could see the MilkyWay...and spent winter week-ends with my parents in Crestline, in the mountains.
I grew up...and watched the orange groves get bulldozed, and the strawberry fields get paved. I watched millions of illegal's invade SoCal...I watched taxes, fee's, charges, regulations...go thru the roof.
I watched rulings by the 9th Circuit overrule the "people" of CA.
I forgot what really blue skies and the MilkyWay looked like.
Oh sure...I snow skied and surfed once in the same day!! Skied Mammoth many times...I've caught golden trout, sea bass, halibut, abalone, and backpacked to places you've probably never seen.
But one of the best things I ever did...was get out of CA.
Good luck to you...I've still family there..and I think of them often.
We have some hay here...in NE OK...but I doubt much for sale.
>>>OK...you stay in your $500,000 2 bedroom duplex and I will stay in my $139,000 3/2/2. And we have no state taxes!
We have some very pretty lakes in Texas...crystal clear....>>>
Yep. My buddy moved out of Southern CA a few years ago for the very simple reason......The weather was no longer worth enough justify him living there when he took into consideration all the other factors, taxes, cost of living, quality of living, etc. And He’s never looked back.
To some people, the weather is still worth buying a 1200 sq. ft. 2 br home in say....El Monte or La Puente CA and paying, I don’t know, $300,000 for a home that was built in the 50s and surrounded by gangs and graffiti.
Or for about the same, they price, they’ll take this and a hot summers......this:http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/705-Crabapple-Way_Mc-Kinney_TX_75070_M82924-50484
>>>I’ve a book for you to read....
Just a cool book about early TX...and the Comanches.>>>
Hey, thanks! I am really interested in getting this book. Ive wondered to myself, how in the hell did Indians survive here with NO AC, no Coca Cola, no ice machines....etc. I am definitely going to take a look at this book.....thanks!
http://www.amazon.com/Matterhorn-Novel-Vietnam-Karl-Marlantes/dp/0802145310/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314659749&sr=1-1
They “might” get one cutting before frost early/mid Nov. What grows back may be bahia which invades nice hay pastures during drought stress. Sadly, is a great time to not have cows.
Our weather guys just said possible 1” Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Don’t think they meant “each day”. Lots of nice red oaks already gone, this 1” might save some.
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