whoze bin messin' wif da weather ?

[wtxsflyr]

Sorry to hear that brother!

[stetto]

"They" are forecasting 12" for tonight through tomorrow. I won't bet on it.

Guys, thanks for your thoughts, I'll be ok, I'm sure. Terrin & I may well work this out, but if not I'll get it together and move on. I WILL be making a point to come to 'Umble and get back to Baird before anchoring somewhere in a rural Texas setting though. Life's just too dang short. It's great having people down there!

Buckaroo, my bad for not stopping in on my way out of the Peoples Collectivist Republic of Commierado, would have been a great time. The folks I'm hanging with right now have a shooting range in their backyard and some wonderful toys we've been pewing with, so I have had time in on some wonderful brass cased calibers!

Can't wait to get back to 80+°...

[stetto]

Last night up here. Spent some good time with my boy and an old friend today, temp never got to 30°. Supposed to be April, fercryinoutloud!

I hear it'll get close to 0° tonight. I hope to be in Paul's Valley Oklahoma tomorrow night. Y'all say a little prayer for me to the fair travel saints, ok?

[stetto]

First morning back in Texas. Cool, calm, looks to be a fine day...

[Onepoint]

Man, it is dust bowl dry here, have sand drifts in the yard when we should have had snow drifts. I am hearing the snow melt is done already, we have some water stored in reservoirs but its only 40 days worth of water to run at this point, and that's pending on Bureau of reclamation allocating it all to our water right. Down stream in NE, they are looking at less, maybe half that, and some ditch companies in CO are told no water for irrigation so the cities can have it. The plan is for farmers to plant their crop, irrigate what they can then file insurance.

If we don't get some serious rain, this summer is going to be he worst on record in the entire west US, we already are the driest ever recorded here. I was looking at pastures, and its not even started yet, hay fields are struggling but greening up. But there is a reason the sand hills east of us are just stabilized sand dunes, let's just hope its not the new normal. I am already going to be looking for hay to buy to try and get through.

[jetmex]

It's been raining here!  Inch and a half already today and still coming down.  I've been waiting two weeks already to start laying pavers along the side of the house to extend the walkway that's already there, but it hasn't been dry enough to get anything done.  72 degrees and 137% humidity....

Welcome home, Stetto!

[stetto]

Thanks Jaime.

I'm outside of Luling now believe it or not, and most of these storms have been skirting right by us. I hear that West Texas got it good yesterday.

Bought a 20-foot RV trailer. My new digs for the foreseeable...

[jetmex]

We're up to 2 1/2 inches of rain so far this weekend and it's still raining on and off.

Come on out to beautiful downtown Uhhmmble, Stetto.  You're welcome here any time. 

[MrGoodwreck]

We have had some pretty decent weather that last 2 weeks.

I have been able to get my 5 acres at the house mowed down, along with some ( not even close to enough) of the blackberries cut back.  The family farm, I was able to get about 12 acres mowed.

As luck would have it, now we have wind, rain, and snow storms for the next 5 days.

To top it off, the power company will be cutting power to out area on the 17th for 24 hours 

Figures   

[MrGoodwreck]

Storm got a little bigger than expected. PUD has turned the power pole replacement into 3 more 6 hours jobs...

Gotta hand it to those guys, they put in the work.

[Onepoint]

Yep, have to be grateful for linemen who go out at all hours and weather to keep us lit and warm.

[jetmex]

Those guys get a workout here every time it rains.

We got a couple of not wet days and now it's supposed to start raining again tomorrow.  Followed by a sorta dry week and then more rain next weekend.  85 here right now.

[MrGoodwreck]

I would love to have it start drying out.

I have a little bit of home remodel that needs to get started, and finished.

[Onepoint]

We had a 'big storm' roll through, got a dusting of snow, maybe a .10" worth of damp.

 I had to be in the dentist in Cheyenne and was worried the trip down as going to miserable, but it was dry going down, coming home was just wet, but barely enough to have to use the wipers at times.

 Its not just us here in WY, though I think we are the worst right now, snow pack in our drainage is down to under 10 percent, and the snow melt run off is already done, up north a couple drainages that straddle the borders of SD and extreme NW Nebraska are at 0%, there is no snow there.  But there is drought across the entire US, from the FL / GA border region all the way up to MT / ID border region, and its supposed to get worse through summer as El Nino gets stronger. Add the fires over winter and last year with no rain to regenerate, this is going to be a very tough year for a lot of cattle producers, but also farmers as water flow is going to be nearly non existent down stream. the CO river will be so little it will practically dry by the time it get to the CA farmers, they are planning on releasing water from the flaming gorge reservoir, but nearly 1/3 of current, and it's low as well all other reservoirs are low, some depleted already and we haven't even started using it yet.

Canada is even worse off, and Brazil and Argentina are also in a severe drought.

 We may see some actual food shortages even more than we have, as this hemisphere will likely not be able to feed the other half for the 1st time that I can remember.  Something we truly just take for granted.

[stetto]

Aside from Onepoint's happy news, its been lovely here in south-central Texas. Cloudy and 70s today, maybe rain later. Right now I'm sitting outside my new hut with my Benelli waiting for a pocket gopher to show hisself just one more time about 20 yards out...yes, I'm using humane ammo, 7 & a half shot waterfowl...