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I know you have listened to us here in the south talk about the drought last year and this year.

My area in central NE Alabama is still in a exceptional drought according to the weather guys. But, things are better here this year that in 2007. Here is an interesting fact that I heard from the weather guys yesterday.


-As of yesterday, April 8th, we have rec'eived 16.4" of rain since the first of the year.

-Last year (2007) it took us until mid-Npvember to receive 16.4" of rain.


While we are not out of the drought yet, things are looking up.
 
atlest your getting enough rain to get your grass growing.an hopfully a good cutting of hay.hows your pools are they filling with water.
 
dun":21fvk9pn said:
What's your normal annual precip?
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About 55"-60" here. We have at least that much deficit over the last 3 years. We've gotten a smidgeon more than last year so far but ponds are still low.

Below ground water table (aquifer) is around 10 feet low according to a local well driller.
 
MikeC":2rj05ajx said:
Below ground water table (aquifer) is around 10 feet low according to a local well driller.
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That's exactly the reason why it takes multiple years of above average precip to recover from a drought. Too many people think a couple of good rains or a wet year means the drought is broken. Wish it worked that way but it doesn;t.
 
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I luv herfrds":aw3sri7v said:
No kidding Dun. We are still recovering from ours that was here 7 years ago.
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It's just too bad that more people don;t realize the problem.
 
dun":k4cuo57a said:
I luv herfrds":k4cuo57a said:
No kidding Dun. We are still recovering from ours that was here 7 years ago.
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It's just too bad that more people don;t realize the problem.
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Most people are like a mule with blinders, they just see and hear what they want too.

Our ponds are looking better than down around MikeC area, but we also have gotten a little more rain than he has too.
 
Auburn_Ag":2bao2s22 said:
Our ponds are looking better than down around MikeC area, but we also have gotten a little more rain than he has too.
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Our ponds are over the spillways, but since the ground is so saturated all of the rain runs and doesn;t get down to the aquafier were it needs to. Springs that dried up as little as 4 years ago are still dry.
 
The guy the measures our wells was out a couple of weeks ago. Ours are still down, but the neighbors have finally started going up.
One set of neighbors lost their water completely, they got foam when they turned on their taps back in '01.
yeah Dun alot of these people do have blinders on. They built up an area near a breeder I know. He said they drilled down into the underground water about 75' and put up over 50 new houses then couldn't figure out why the groundwater dried up. :roll:
Don't know how much longer he can hold on where he is at, can not longer expand. :(
 
dun":2a5qnhte said:
Auburn_Ag":2a5qnhte said:
Our ponds are looking better than down around MikeC area, but we also have gotten a little more rain than he has too.
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Our ponds are over the spillways, but since the ground is so saturated all of the rain runs and doesn;t get down to the aquafier were it needs to. Springs that dried up as little as 4 years ago are still dry.
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You are right Dun, it is the same way here.

Listed below is a link to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The state of Alabama is current as of April 1, 2008. I am sure that some of you already seen this website, but for those of you who have not take a look at your state.

http://drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_state.htm?AL,SE
 
What we need is a flood monitor. Of the 3 roads that can reach this place only one of them is underwater so far.
 
I'm not sure how they work this stuff. The site shows my area as not being in a drought but we are so far behind from years past. We did get some rain the last couple weeks but we are so dry it only lasts a day or two and then the levels are back down. We get good rain, the ponds start to recover then no rain for a week and the ponds become mud pits again.

I blame much of it on all the building they are doing down here. They build and build and suck the water out of the ground. They are even going to build desalination plants down here. When will they learn to restrict the building?
 

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