One of the worst droughts in state history.

[FelixDeCat]

We are enduring the worst drought in state history. The grass everywhere looks like straw, trees have lost their leaves, the ground is cracking open here and there.

Here is a picture I took from a nearby park:

>>>2011 is the only year to have two 100+ streaks in the top 10.

>>>There were 40 days in a row of 100-or-better readings from July 2 to August 10, second longest on record at DFW.

>>>A new streak began August 15 and continues at 17 days of 100+as of August 31, which puts it in the #10 ranking (and still counting).

>>>The year 2011 has seen 18 days with high temperatures of 105 or more, classified as “extreme” heat. This is second only to 1980 which had 28 such days.

On top of that we have had very little rain this year. Today is our second day in the upper 80s to low 90s. Its almost feels cold compared to the 100 degree weather we have "enjoyed" for so long.

 

[Numenorean]

Everything is still nice and green here. It's great.

 

[lxskllr]

Praise God's glory!

 

[SP33Demon]

Didn't Lee just hit you guys?

 

[her209]

Problem Texas?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Didn't Lee just hit you guys?

We have had two hurricanes. One dissipated in a couple of hours of landfall and Lee only gave us lots of wind but no rain. :'(

 

[Spikesoldier]

i hear that. im renting and i never water the grass. it looks exactly like you describe - hay. the foundation of the house is suffering because of the lack of water.

doors are having a hard time opening and shutting, i see cracks in the walls, etc. not quite cracks in the dirt and sinkholes though. i can feel with my senses that the house is off-level in certain places.

mostly, you have to have money to have green grass in texas. go anywhere else and the grass grows green by itself.

 

[zinfamous]

Praise God's glory!

Rick Perry sure knows how to piss off the Big Guy.

anyway, at least you now have all the fire to keep you guys company. :\

stay safe.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Praise God's glory!

Death is part of life. Good times are followed by bad. We endure and hope for a change.

The best thing to happen recently is that our long streak of 100 degree days is finally over.

 

[BoomerD]

Let's us get together and pray for rain, y'all.

I've been wondering if this is the start of another "dust bowl" scenario like in the 1930's.

There's a pretty large area of the country affected by this, much of it agricultural.

California has gone through several droughts in the past 20 or so years, none as severe as what Texas/Oklahoma are getting now.

It's gotta suck to see many places flooding...and you're drying/burning up.

Let's us get together and pray for rain, y'all.

 

[FelixDeCat]

i hear that. im renting and i never water the grass. it looks exactly like you describe - hay. the foundation of the house is suffering because of the lack of water.

doors are having a hard time opening and shutting, i see cracks in the walls, etc. not quite cracks in the dirt and sinkholes though. i can feel with my senses that the house is off-level in certain places.

mostly, you have to have money to have green grass in texas. go anywhere else and the grass grows green by itself.

I was going to make a video to document things Ive never seen before around here.

 

[Crusty]

 

[FelixDeCat]

Let's us get together and pray for rain, y'all.

I've been wondering if this is the start of another "dust bowl" scenario like in the 1930's.

There's a pretty large area of the country affected by this, much of it agricultural.

California has gone through several droughts in the past 20 or so years, none as severe as what Texas/Oklahoma are getting now.

It's gotta suck to see many places flooding...and you're drying/burning up.

Let's us get together and pray for rain, y'all.

We are praying, now its just a matter of patience. I saw a documentary about the dust bowl once. It was caused by poor farming practices in combination with an extreme drought. The dust kicked up by the soil erosion actually worsened the drought because it acted like a greenhouse preventing moisture to accumulate into rain.

As Hurricane Irene swept up the East Coast of the U.S., there was a surge of envy rising deep in the heart of Texas. No one wished ill on a neighbor on the Eastern seaboard, of course, but for some Texans, watching intrepid, slicker-clad reporters standing in water up to their knees was like watching a moon landing. Temperatures in Austin were soaring to 112°F and the drought-stricken Lone Star State was dry as a bone.

There was nary a cloud in the sky Sunday afternoon as Austin marked the all-time highest temperature on record since Texans began making note of such things over 150 years ago. By late afternoon, the sinking sun was a huge searing orange disk in a cloudless sky, seeming to draw burnt orange haze out of the earth on the horizon. Orange was also the color of the ozone forecast, a warning to anyone engaged in outdoor activities, particularly children and individuals with breathing problems, to avoid lengthy, strenuous outdoor activities.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2091192,00.html#ixzz1XBkIBRdT

 

[Juddog]

It's God punishing Texas. Pray hard enough and maybe the FSM will save you.

 

[ichy]

Good thing Rick Perry had all those stupid prayer rallies

 

[Spikesoldier]

It's God punishing Texas.

glad im leaving in four months.

 

[Josh123]

It's God punishing Texas. Pray hard enough and maybe the FSM will save you.

Do you say the same for the East coast states that are flooding?

 

[Sho'Nuff]

As you Texans say, "if it needs some killin . . . "

 

[ElFenix]

far west or spicewood springs?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Do you say the same for the East coast states that are flooding?

Along with prayer comes patience. We will get rain eventually, hopefully enough to bring us back to normal over time.

I did pray for those in the path of hurricaine Irene. Thankfully it wasnt as bad as predicted.

 

[Josh123]

 

[Drako]

That picture of the grass looks like my backyard here in California .

I never water the grass in the back, just the Citrus and Pomegranate trees.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Death is part of life. Good times are followed by bad. We endure and hope for a change.

The best thing to happen recently is that our long streak of 100 degree days is finally over.

Now you can endure a long streak of smoke and flame.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

We have had two hurricanes. One dissipated in a couple of hours of landfall and Lee only gave us lots of wind but no rain. :'(

You want some of our water? We had the snowiest winter on record, August 2011 was the rainiest month ever. Not just the rainiest August, the rainiest month. And this week Lee is channeling up the coast and we're getting rain all day every day. Maybe you can use some of those dead trees to build arks, we would buy them.

 

[her209]

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the fires.