Weather

[TDub]

I dont pray....but I am doing Raindances up here to the NE of you. Its been a long time (like maybe once in last 90 days) since we got some recordable precip.

[Deleted User 89]

you’re doing better than we are...but that’s not saying much

[jhawks99]

We got tons of the stuff. Almost every day. You can have some of ours.

[Deleted User 89]

camping season is pretty shitty when it’s so dry

[Sparko]

Our water table is maxed out in South Texas and we are cooler than I have seen, 70/80 highs. I have grown incredible tomatoes for the first time since moving here.

[ousdahl]

The radio said driest soil here since 1893.

Driving up a forest road scouting some fishing spots, I came across an open flame campfire still burning. Stopped and doused it out walking back and forth from the stream with a Gatorade bottle.

There’s a special place in hell...

[Overlander]

The radio said driest soil here since 1893.

Driving up a forest road scouting some fishing spots, I came across an open flame campfire still burning. Stopped and doused it out walking back and forth from the stream with a Gatorade bottle.

There’s a special place in hell...

That is serious bullshit. Few things make me madder

[pdub]

Hate.

[Overlander]

Hate.

If you ever catch one, castrate.


Really, really slow

[shindig]

https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html

Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.

[Overlander]

So, I am pretty sure Dallas has had 33' of rain so far this month.

[sdoyel]

6.60” of rain at my house between Saturday evening and Monday afternoon.

This is after getting over 12” of rain in May…

[Overlander]

6.60” of rain at my house between Saturday evening and Monday afternoon.

This is after getting over 12” of rain in May…

Annnnddd.....raining again this morning.

[jfish26]

Spring (all ten days of it) appears to have ended here in KC.

[ousdahl]

https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html

Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.

Off the top of my head, I think Vegas at least has it a little more figured out than most southwestern cities, as far as water conservation goes.

Denver and the front range are the ones right now who are pumping Colorado River water from the western slope, over/through an entire mountain range, across the continental divide to the eastern slope, so that residents can have their suburban lawns and play golf, and so rural eastern CO farmers can grow beets.

It’s impractical and unsustainable to be growing beets in an otherwise arid high prairie/desert landscape, but New Deal era handouts provide the subsidies, and the water rights, to keep doing it. And those farmers will be damned before they give up their way of life about it now.

Cuz that’s suuuch a fulfilling an exciting way of life, too. Growing beets. In the bumfuck eastern CO desert. Woo. Calm down you guys.

[jfish26]

https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html

Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.

Off the top of my head, I think Vegas at least has it a little more figured out than most southwestern cities, as far as water conservation goes.

Denver and the front range are the ones right now who are pumping Colorado River water from the western slope, over/through an entire mountain range, across the continental divide to the eastern slope, so that residents can have their suburban lawns and play golf, and so rural eastern CO farmers can grow beets.

It’s impractical and unsustainable to be growing beets in an otherwise arid high prairie/desert landscape, but New Deal era handouts provide the subsidies, and the water rights, to keep doing it. And those farmers will be damned before they give up their way of life about it now.

Cuz that’s suuuch a fulfilling an exciting way of life, too. Growing beets. In the bumfuck eastern CO desert. Woo. Calm down you guys.

I've mentioned this in other threads - it's intensely depressing to fly into Vegas/Phoenix/Palm Springs/etc. and see clusters of 18-36 emerald green patches in a sea of browns and yellows.

[Deleted User 89]

https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html

Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.

Off the top of my head, I think Vegas at least has it a little more figured out than most southwestern cities, as far as water conservation goes.

Denver and the front range are the ones right now who are pumping Colorado River water from the western slope, over/through an entire mountain range, across the continental divide to the eastern slope, so that residents can have their suburban lawns and play golf, and so rural eastern CO farmers can grow beets.

It’s impractical and unsustainable to be growing beets in an otherwise arid high prairie/desert landscape, but New Deal era handouts provide the subsidies, and the water rights, to keep doing it. And those farmers will be damned before they give up their way of life about it now.

Cuz that’s suuuch a fulfilling an exciting way of life, too. Growing beets. In the bumfuck eastern CO desert. Woo. Calm down you guys.

makes me think about almonds in cali

[Deleted User 89]

https://news.yahoo.com/hoover-dam-symbo ... 16884.html

Vegas in trouble? Before you know it, they'll be pumping water from the Mississippi or Missouri rivers to feed their extravagant and wasteful fountains.

Off the top of my head, I think Vegas at least has it a little more figured out than most southwestern cities, as far as water conservation goes.

Denver and the front range are the ones right now who are pumping Colorado River water from the western slope, over/through an entire mountain range, across the continental divide to the eastern slope, so that residents can have their suburban lawns and play golf, and so rural eastern CO farmers can grow beets.

It’s impractical and unsustainable to be growing beets in an otherwise arid high prairie/desert landscape, but New Deal era handouts provide the subsidies, and the water rights, to keep doing it. And those farmers will be damned before they give up their way of life about it now.

Cuz that’s suuuch a fulfilling an exciting way of life, too. Growing beets. In the bumfuck eastern CO desert. Woo. Calm down you guys.

I've mentioned this in other threads - it's intensely depressing to fly into Vegas/Phoenix/Palm Springs/etc. and see clusters of 18-36 emerald green patches in a sea of browns and yellows.

^^^^^^

[Deleted User 89]

i should dig up one of my old pics from field work i did at the UC Deep Canyon field station, right outside of Palm Desert

you’ve gotta drive through a private, gated community surrounding a golf course to get to it, and one of the roads is right along the border b/t the community and the protected natural area

you’ll likely never see a starker example of “silliness” in the desert

[CrimsonNBlue]

Spring (all ten days of it) appears to have ended here in KC.

I am usually on this train, but I think it has been as nice of a Spring as we have had in a long time. Started in early March, too.