Drought and Survival
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dogghr
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Got the rain but at a price. Monster trees down everywhere with houses sometimes being the landing spot. Power out for many for 4 days now w several days to go. Major flooding in certain areas w homes destroyed. Powerline ROW thru my farm has had its lines knocked down at least 4 times. My neighbor who does powerline maintenance has worked round the clock missing out his new baby at home.
And our area faired much better than adjacent states.
I’ve escaped house damage and did not lose power.
I’ll take the drought over this crap any time. Deer seem to survive regardless.
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And our area faired much better than adjacent states.
I’ve escaped house damage and did not lose power.
I’ll take the drought over this crap any time. Deer seem to survive regardless.
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Drycreek
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Yeah, there are definitely worse things than drought, unless it’s extended enough that it causes other problems. The year 2011 was terrible for us, fires everywhere ! It seemed like every day you could see large clouds of smoke on the horizon. Some got close to us but thank goodness never got on our place. I lost half of my white oaks or more. I still clean up the remnants of dead oak trees from that year and the year after.
KSQ2
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No change today, no rain this fall for the central US. If it does rain, it will miss us like normal. No predictions of hurricanes hitting Texas and coming up to us. There is no hope for rain at all. Today we have 25-30 mph winds out of the NE drying out already bone dry ground. This pattern has persisted for getting closer to 4 years. What’s gonna break it? NOTHING. The central US will be a desert soon. We’ve already lost 3 of the 8 big oaks around our home. I can’t count how many we’ve lost at our property and the property of my in-law’s. I’m guessing we will lose more this winter. There is nothing more depressing in weather terms than drought. Water is life. Drought is death.
KSQ2
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Looking back, how I wish we'd been sent the remnants of hurricane Helene instead of the poor people of North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, etc... Our flat as a pancake topography handles that kind of flooding so much better. In '07 when we got over 22" of rain in less than a week, and every national news station was here, I don't believe there were any deaths, and very few roads/bridges damaged at all. There was some property damage, but that was taken care of quite easily comparatively. The biggest concern was the refinery being flooded, but even the fear from that was overblown looking back.
KSQ2
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Whelp not gonna get to hunt one of our favorite properties again this year. The plot is a wasteland. We cannot hunt the entire property, the plot is the only way we can hunt drawing deer from the part of the property we cannot hunt. So I guess the tumor ten and a couple of his buddies are off limits. Wish I’d known this before I bought a new cover for the bale blind. Not even going to set it up, what’s the point? We set it up last year and never hunted it. Almost 4 years of drought….this sucks. At least the temps are nice, it was a cool 96 degrees today. 
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Same here…
KSQ2
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The last few years it has gotten greener as I travel south toward Tulsa, not this year tho. Now it gets green as I travel west.
Drycreek
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We are officially in a drought here now, burn bans in my county and all the surrounding counties plus more added each day. My home plot should have been burned off, but the burn ban kinda slipped up on me. Every time I thought about, it was too wet with dew or too windy. Then I had to redeck my fishing pier and so goes the excuses. I just screwed up by procrastinating. I haven’t planted anything, and they keep forecasting rain and it keeps disappearing in the forecasts.
I really did redeck my fishing pier though………
I really did redeck my fishing pier though………
KSQ2
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Nicely done!We are officially in a drought here now, burn bans in my county and all the surrounding counties plus more added each day. My home plot should have been burned off, but the burn ban kinda slipped up on me. Every time I thought about, it was too wet with dew or too windy. Then I had to redeck my fishing pier and so goes the excuses. I just screwed up by procrastinating. I haven’t planted anything, and they keep forecasting rain and it keeps disappearing in the forecasts.
I really did redeck my fishing pier though………
KSQ2
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Well, they took our chance for rain Monday away….. La Niña will take a dire situation and turn it into another disaster this winter. Water shortages are on the horizon again. Our area is about to leave extreme drought and enter into exceptional. It was a brief reprieve.
MarkDarvin
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I hadn’t looked at that most of this year. I have to say, I’m stunned at how badly my area has fallen back into drought.
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Kurt
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The Smoky Hill River ran dry this year. Pretty sad as many aquatic critters and animals that relied on it of course perished. Surprisingly my native grass pasture saw very good switchgrass, indian grass and little blue stem growth. Going into season I'll have the tallest grass cover in the area since I don't graze it and hoping it fills up with deer after harvest.
Still going to be planting acorns this fall again since I tend to have a stubborn streak and its only my time I am wasting. Hoping normal rains and the river returns.
Still going to be planting acorns this fall again since I tend to have a stubborn streak and its only my time I am wasting. Hoping normal rains and the river returns.
KSQ2
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Today makes 69 days since a drop of rain has fallen; and there is exactly zero relief in sight. A week ago they were saying we would get some good rain today, lol!!!!! Will we reach 100 days w/o rain, on top of our usual yearly drought? Who knows? We’re all about breaking the wrong kind of records here in SE Kansas! Desert life sucks. And grass fires are a daily occurrence now. The volunteer firefighters are sick of it.
KSQ2
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The drought is nearing exceptional now again; the fire danger is off the charts. The last two days alone 2 grass fires turned into structure fires in our county. Hot, dry, and strong winds every single day is not a good combination; and there continues to be no relief in sight. This 3.5 year drought continues to break records; we're well beyond the dust bowl era for lack of rainfall at this point.
KSQ2
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The wind has been howling since yesterday morning, we're under red flag warnings. The humidity has risen though, and the next 5 or 6 days we have the best chance for significant rain that we've had in a LONG time. I'm taking the afternoon off to throw seed again, needing to replace all that has been raided the last month and a half while just sitting on the ground.
weekender21
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Post Helene last month it’s been DRY in western NC. I imagine my perennial plots will be ok but the annual plots are going to suffer. I’m planning to add rye grain at 100 pounds/acre in mid November. It’s typically pretty cold by then, will be an interesting experiment.
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