Texas Heat!

[RobertBrown]

I'm not on a municipal water system. I didn't realize Florida had those kinds of restrictions on rural wells. Even in our cities with restrictions, there is no restriction if you are watering from a private well. Did you miss the part where I said I'm using well water?

Robert, even with a private well, I would not water that much if I weren't just trying to keep my grass alive. My usage is 100k gallons for the months when there is no rain and the heat is 100+. When the rain comes or it cools a bit, I'll use much less. For two months, I'll use 100k gallons and then probably drop back to 25k to 30k gallons per month or less.

In Florida the water restrictions are the same regardless where you get your water from. It all comes from the gound here anyway. Just because your don't have a meter doesn't mean it isn't quite valuable. All muncipal water is pumped from wells with the exception of a few scatered resavioirs. The landscape and soil type makes them very expensive to build and maintain.
They were taking from rivers at one time but the environmental impact was too large. Environment is tourism here.
I see the aquifer as a resource that should be managed and conserved. Something that belongs to the collective if you will.
It gets hot here and it gets dry, but not near as bad as you are curently experiencing. Those conditions are stressful. It tough to watch your pond dry up and see your trees dying.
"You don't miss your water till the well runs dry" as the old saying goes.
We began getting rain here about 4 weeks ago after many weeks without. The past week has brought over 10 inches and the past 2 days the rain has been almost constant. It's a big relief to know that drought is not an imediate threat anymore, although my pond is still in need of about 36" to get to where it should be this time of year. One good tropical depression could fix that....not that I'm wishing for one.
I hope you guys get some rain there soon. I fell as though it's inevitable. Those conditions are brutal and I feel for you.

 

[300UGUY]

In Florida the water restrictions are the same regardless where you get your water from. It all comes from the gound here anyway. Just because your don't have a meter doesn't mean it isn't quite valuable. All muncipal water is pumped from wells with the exception of a few scatered resavioirs. The landscape and soil type makes them very expensive to build and maintain.
They were taking from rivers at one time but the environmental impact was too large. Environment is tourism here.
I see the aquifer as a resource that should be managed and conserved. Something that belongs to the collective if you will.
It gets hot here and it gets dry, but not near as bad as you are curently experiencing. Those conditions are stressful. It tough to watch your pond dry up and see your trees dying.
"You don't miss your water till the well runs dry" as the old saying goes.
We began getting rain here about 4 weeks ago after many weeks without. The past week has brought over 10 inches and the past 2 days the rain has been almost constant. It's a big relief to know that drought is not an imediate threat anymore, although my pond is still in need of about 36" to get to where it should be this time of year. One good tropical depression could fix that....not that I'm wishing for one.
I hope you guys get some rain there soon. I fell as though it's inevitable. Those conditions are brutal and I feel for you.

I was surprised how far they move water in Florida. My parents are over 60 miles from the Peace river, but that is where their water comes from.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We are still breaking records as far as consecutive days above 100 and total number of days over 100. Not quite beat the all time records yet.

We haven't had rain since the 3rd week of June. That's 7 weeks of over 100 degree days. Ouch.

My friend up in Muenster had a "gully washer" yesterday evening.

 

[sseelhoff]

We are still breaking records as far as consecutive days above 100 and total number of days over 100. Not quite beat the all time records yet.

We haven't had rain since the 3rd week of June. That's 7 weeks of over 100 degree days. Ouch.

My friend up in Muenster had a "gully washer" yesterday evening.

I'm thinking we establish the new record of 100+ days at 50 consecutive.

 

[jinman]

My friend up in Muenster had a "gully washer" yesterday evening.

So did my brother in Whitesboro. I could smell it, but not a drop here.

 

[Western]

So did my brother in Whitesboro. I could smell it, but not a drop here.

I thought I saw some rain up that way!! Your brother should run out and get a lotto ticket!!!


Food getting scarce for the boyz

 

[Alan L.]

So did my brother in Whitesboro. I could smell it, but not a drop here.

We live 20 miles from Whitesboro and I didn't get a drop. Just a cloud. I think it was raining, but turned to steam before it hit the ground.

 

[Alan L.]

In Florida the water restrictions are the same regardless where you get your water from. It all comes from the gound here anyway. Just because your don't have a meter doesn't mean it isn't quite valuable. All muncipal water is pumped from wells with the exception of a few scatered resavioirs. The landscape and soil type makes them very expensive to build and maintain.
They were taking from rivers at one time but the environmental impact was too large. Environment is tourism here.
I see the aquifer as a resource that should be managed and conserved. Something that belongs to the collective if you will.
It gets hot here and it gets dry, but not near as bad as you are curently experiencing. Those conditions are stressful. It tough to watch your pond dry up and see your trees dying.
"You don't miss your water till the well runs dry" as the old saying goes.
We began getting rain here about 4 weeks ago after many weeks without. The past week has brought over 10 inches and the past 2 days the rain has been almost constant. It's a big relief to know that drought is not an imediate threat anymore, although my pond is still in need of about 36" to get to where it should be this time of year. One good tropical depression could fix that....not that I'm wishing for one.
I hope you guys get some rain there soon. I fell as though it's inevitable. Those conditions are brutal and I feel for you.

I'm running water into my tank (pond) now just to try to keep my fish alive (see Eddie's thread about dead fish). Balancing the desire not to lose my fish against the wear and tear on my well pump. Right now I need to run it all night every other night just to stay even. The tank is 10 or 12 feet deep when full, now I suspect its maybe 4' deep at the deepest point. The fish still come up to eat, so they are there, but the water is getting really warm and I it has never been this low since it first filled up in 2000.

I certainly don't apologize for the water I use - if people don't like their water system restrictions they are welcome to spend $15K to drill a well like I did. Its my water at least for now. There are some that are making noise about metering private water wells in Texas. As Charlton Heston said, they will mount a meter on my water well when they remove the gun from my cold dead hands........

 

[pacerron]

A pleasant change in the weather here. Temperature was 57 F and humidity
85% this morning when I took this picture of the hot pond water below the cool air.
Ron

 

[pacerron]

Bird,
I think this was the type of bagworm you were referring to the other day.
We have a lot of them this year too.
At least no Locust bugs this year.
Ron