Texas rains, don't this beat all

[Bird]

I just dumped another .45" of rain out of my gauge this morning, my yard's a swamp, and I just read in the newspaper that the National Weather Service has finally officially declared our drought to be over.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I turned on the puter to Google the local animal shelter. TBN is my home page. I can't turn on the puter without browsing the forums.

It's been raining cats and dogs here in Wylie. They're starting to make a mess. Doser, the low to the ground, long and brown, puppy loves all the company, but, well, maybe he's got a point.

February our lake U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Lavon Lake was almost seventeen feet low. Yesterday we went over normal for the first time in years. I don't want to do the math but think "twenty two thousand acres times eighteen feet deep," we've got some water this spring.

 

[txdon]

Harvey that would be 12,186,042,000 gallons of water. WOW!

 

[Bird]

Harvey that would be 12,186,042,000 gallons of water. WOW!

There is no doubt it took a LOT of water to fill a lake that was down 17 feet, but how would it even be possible to calculate how much, since it was 17 feet in the areas that were that deep or deeper, but much shallower in other parts of the lake?

 

[EddieWalker]

We had two downpours yesterday that were half an inch each. I got cought out in both of them and loved it. I was soaked by the time I made it's impossible to mow or get anything done, but until my lake is full, I'm not complaining!!!

5 1/2 inches of water in 7 straight days of rain.

Eddie

 

[txdon]

There is no doubt it took a LOT of water to fill a lake that was down 17 feet, but how would it even be possible to calculate how much, since it was 17 feet in the areas that were that deep or deeper, but much shallower in other parts of the lake?

OH, so this is not a perfectly square lake with a level bottom?
Might need to subtract the area toward the shore line where the dept is shallower.

 

[EastTexFrank]

I never thought that I'd say this, "but I'm tired off all this rain". We've had cut hay on the ground for almost 2 weeks waiting to be fluffed and baled, I've got fences to paint, driveway to seal and I'm sitting here watching the yard and pasture grass (and weeds) growing like crazy because it's too wet to get anything done. The vegetable garden is loving it though so I suppose that's something.
I can't complain too much. I'm sitting here doing this and the sun is actually shinning outside. Gotta go and see if I can get something done before the next line of storms come through.

 

[Unclebuck257]

Over here in the Florida Panhandle we are really hurting for rain...... just 2" since February and we need some badly.

Texas was there last year and the year before that. We were in a severe drought for the last two years, so we can certainly appreciate your situation. All the rain this Spring has brought most of our lakes back up to being full, and they had gotten dangerously low. In addition, round bales here had gone up as high as $100 each because without rain those last two years, no one was making much hay, and what they did make, they needed for their own cattle. We were importing bales from a number of other states, just to survive. This year, the first cutting is done, for the most part, and folks are looking forward to their second cutting already.

We can really feel for you folks in that drought area. Hopefully, not a hurricane, but a big low pressure front will come in and give you some relief here soon.

 

[BTDT]

Texas was there last year and the year before that. We were in a severe drought for the last two years, so we can certainly appreciate your situation. All the rain this Spring has brought most of our lakes back up to being full, and they had gotten dangerously low. In addition, round bales here had gone up as high as $100 each because without rain those last two years, no one was making much hay, and what they did make, they needed for their own cattle. We were importing bales from a number of other states, just to survive. This year, the first cutting is done, for the most part, and folks are looking forward to their second cutting already.

We can really feel for you folks in that drought area. Hopefully, not a hurricane, but a big low pressure front will come in and give you some relief here soon.

I noticed yesterday right up the road from me a guy had round bales for $60 each. I thought, that's crazy, as green as everything is he'll never sell those.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Kyle, have you cut your hay?

Yes, 1st cutting was decent. Fertilizer cost is a losing proposition (just like gas).

We got 4-6" Sat, 2-4" Sunday and about 1.5" today. My raingage is broken. I'm going by my kid's pool and the wheelbarrow I left out.

I figure TxDon's pool could nearly be full by now with free rain water?