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May 19, 2011#1

JDgreen

Got another inch of rain last nite, after drizzling most of yesterday...I have measured an actual 8 inches of rainfall here so far this month...the local weather forecast says they have only recorded 2.9 inches this month. Quite a disparity.

May 19, 2011#2

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fastback

I am guilty of being on the forum and not signing in. I usually just do a quick check of new post and if I need to see a picture or want to comment I sign in. Sorry if that offends anyone. Oh, I did sign in this AM:biggrin:

May 19, 2011#3

JDgreen

fastback said:
I am guilty of being on the forum and not signing in. I usually just do a quick check of new post and if I need to see a picture or want to comment I sign in. Sorry if that offends anyone. Oh, I did sign in this AM:biggrin:

I think you posted your reply in the wrong thread...oh well, at least you posted !!!!

May 19, 2011#4

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fastback

Re posting to the wrong thread. Sorry I don't know how that happened. Anyway, its been raining here all week. Not as much as you have, but the grass is growing and all I can do is watch. My back yard an acre plus is already on the wet side. This extra rain is not helping. I have surface water now. I guess I'll need pontoons soon, but heck the grass is green.

May 19, 2011#5

Kingwood990

I rained every day last week. Now half my garden is still under water and it is way to wet to get in there with the tractor. Oh I got a customer complaining that her grass growed in the last two weeks

She was bitching at me telling me its my fault it grew after I cut it two weeks ago. Sorry about the short rant it just got under my skin thats all.

May 19, 2011#6

rer

rained under 1/4 inch today. WE NEED RAIN. Pray for rain.

May 20, 2011#7

JDgreen

Kingwood990 said:
I rained every day last week. Now half my garden is still under water and it is way to wet to get in there with the tractor. Oh I got a customer complaining that her grass growed in the last two weeks She was bitching at me telling me its my fault it grew after I cut it two weeks ago. Sorry about the short rant it just got under my skin thats all.

You say "I rained every day last week..." :biggrin: That would get under my skin too....:biggrin:

Heck it is so wet here I would have to mow every few days to keep up but it's too wet. The sun came out yesterday afternoon but did little to dry anything out.

May 20, 2011#8

BKBrown

If that was not sarcasm -- I'm sure there are some here who would be happy to send you theirs ! For a few years we have been behind the "normal" rainfall and even had "drought" -- This year we are above normal !

rer said:
rained under 1/4 inch today. WE NEED RAIN. Pray for rain.

May 20, 2011#9

twall

They said today on the news that it is now officially the wettest spring on record across the entire northeast! Meanhlile parts of the south and midwest are having the driest spring ever. This is a freaky year!

May 20, 2011#10

Sprinkler Buddy

twall said:
They said today on the news that it is now officially the wettest spring on record across the entire northeast! Meanhlile parts of the south and midwest are having the driest spring ever. This is a freaky year!

Have a feeling Hurricanes are going to be bad this year in FL.:frown: It has been very dry here!

May 20, 2011#11

Kingwood990

JDgreen said:
You say "I rained every day last week..." :biggrin: That would get under my skin too....:biggrin:

Heck it is so wet here I would have to mow every few days to keep up but it's too wet. The sun came out yesterday afternoon but did little to dry anything out.

I just noticed that. You are right that would get annoying after a while.

May 21, 2011#12

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Oddball

Its been dry here around Atlanta too. We started off the Spring with slightly above average rainfall and I was pleased. It has stayed cool longer than normal and my newly planted grass came up thick and healthy looking. Its had 2 full months of almost perfect growing weather. Now it has gotten dry and we've had no appreciable rain on at least 3 weeks. Even though I've been watering nothing helps the plants as much as real rain water. I'm losing some of my new grass already even though temps for the most part have still been almost ideal for fescue.

May 21, 2011#13

JDgreen

Oddball said:
Its been dry here around Atlanta too. We started off the Spring with slightly above average rainfall and I was pleased. It has stayed cool longer than normal and my newly planted grass came up thick and healthy looking. Its had 2 full months of almost perfect growing weather. Now it has gotten dry and we've had no appreciable rain on at least 3 weeks. Even though I've been watering nothing helps the plants as much as real rain water. I'm losing some of my new grass already even though temps for the most part have still been almost ideal for fescue.

I read the newest issue Of TIME magazine last night, a reader authored a letter in that issue that claimed we are getting increasingly heavy rainfalls (including those that flooded the south recently) worldwide, and many are caused by global warming. I never thought about it that way.

May 21, 2011#14

RobertBrown

Oddball said:
Its been dry here around Atlanta too. We started off the Spring with slightly above average rainfall and I was pleased. It has stayed cool longer than normal and my newly planted grass came up thick and healthy looking. Its had 2 full months of almost perfect growing weather. Now it has gotten dry and we've had no appreciable rain on at least 3 weeks. Even though I've been watering nothing helps the plants as much as real rain water. I'm losing some of my new grass already even though temps for the most part have still been almost ideal for fescue.

It's been 8 weeks here, dry as a popcorn fart.

May 21, 2011#15

JDgreen

RobertBrown said:
It's been 8 weeks here, dry as a popcorn fart.

If Florida, as well as in other areas with sandy soil, that is a serious drought because the soil will not hold moisture.

I have NEVER seen that expression before..."dry as a popcorn fart".....:laughing:

May 21, 2011#16

RobertBrown

JDgreen said:
If Florida, as well as in other areas with sandy soil, that is a serious drought because the soil will not hold moisture.

I have NEVER seen that expression before..."dry as a popcorn fart".....:laughing:

My thermometer indicated 106F today.
There's probably a lot of things we say down here that you've never heard.

May 21, 2011#17

BKBrown

IMHO - The Earth goes through cycles (hot, cold, wet, dry) - Yes, we humans may have something to do with some of the problems, but they have proved that the "scientists" doctored the "evidence" to make it say what they wanted to find.
If Al ("I invented the internet":laughing

Gore believes in it and is able to profit from it --- I don't believe it!

JDgreen said:
I read the newest issue Of TIME magazine last night, a reader authored a letter in that issue that claimed we are getting increasingly heavy rainfalls (including those that flooded the south recently) worldwide, and many are caused by global warming. I never thought about it that way.

May 21, 2011#18

RobertBrown

BKBrown said:
IMHO - The Earth goes through cycles (hot, cold, wet, dry) - Yes, we humans may have something to do with some of the problems, but they have proved that the "scientists" doctored the "evidence" to make it say what they wanted to find.
If Al ("I invented the internet":laughing Gore believes in it and is able to profit from it --- I don't believe it!

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Sounds like your saying "If Al gore said it it must not be true".
I don't know Al Gore or what his agenda is. I suggest you use your own "powers of deduction" to aquire knowledge regarding the future, climate and it's impact on yourself.
I would be more surprised to find out conclusiviley that we do not influence climate than discovering the opposite.

May 21, 2011#19

BKBrown

I have NEVER just used one source of information to make my judgments.

Al Gore has nothing to do with my opinion except that he is backing the whole "global warming" thing and making huge profits from it while HE is one of the biggest offenders with the energy use at his mansion and jetting all over the globe. I was using him as an example and a JOKE !:biggrin:

I'm sure we can do better, but some of the things that are suggested will have minimal impact except to make some people rich.

Again, it is just my opinion, but I believe that major reason for the climate and weather is a natural cycle that the earth goes through from time to time.

My nose is still planted firmly on this face and won't be cut off to spite it!

May 21, 2011#20

RobertBrown

nose is still planted firmly on this face and won't be cut off to spite it!

I'll need a picture, thank you very much.

May 21, 2011#21

BKBrown

Nope - I have nothing to prove - It was an opinion ! :biggrin:

BTW - My Father was also Robert Brown.

RobertBrown said:
I'll need a picture, thank you very much.

May 21, 2011#22

RobertBrown

BKBrown said:
Nope - I have nothing to prove - It was an opinion ! :biggrin:

BTW - My Father was also Robert Brown.

I think you and I can agree that politics and climate chang are 2 distinctly separate issues. You may very well be correct with your cycles theory. I think we can also agree that climate change is happening and the cause is yet to be determined.
Understand that I am not trying to sell you a Prius or a point of view, rather, my intention is to outline the boundries between politics and nature.

May 21, 2011#23

BKBrown

I think we can also agree that many people in politics who are supposed to be our "representatives" take care of their own needs first. Some politicians prove over and over again that they are only good at creating wealth for themselves.

Politics has no role (or very little) in my opinion about climate.

We need rain - it just needs to be spread out and come slow and steady instead of all at once.

May 22, 2011#24

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Oddball

BKBrown said:
I have NEVER just used one source of information to make my judgments.

Al Gore has nothing to do with my opinion except that he is backing the whole "global warming" thing and making huge profits from it while HE is one of the biggest offenders with the energy use at his mansion and jetting all over the globe. I was using him as an example and a JOKE !:biggrin:

I'm sure we can do better, but some of the things that are suggested will have minimal impact except to make some people rich.

Again, it is just my opinion, but I believe that major reason for the climate and weather is a natural cycle that the earth goes through from time to time.

My nose is still planted firmly on this face and won't be cut off to spite it!

I agree with BKBrown on this. "Global Warming" is just the earth's natural cycle and nothing new. Its just something for the environmentalists to latch onto to spread fear and their agenda. Studies have shown the earth's average temp has actually decreased by 1.5 degrees (I believe that was the number) over the last decade, yet the believers still scream the earth's gonna burn up because some cow farted somewhere. I'm not saying we shouldn't, within reason, do what we can to preserve the environment, but we can certainly do it without being alarmist and running around screaming the sky is falling.

May 22, 2011#25

BKBrown

Exactly, Thanks ! I think you are right on the number (or very close).

Oddball said:
I agree with BKBrown on this. "Global Warming" is just the earth's natural cycle and nothing new. Its just something for the environmentalists to latch onto to spread fear and their agenda. Studies have shown the earth's average temp has actually decreased by 1.5 degrees (I believe that was the number) over the last decade, yet the believers still scream the earth's gonna burn up because some cow farted somewhere. I'm not saying we shouldn't, within reason, do what we can to preserve the environment, but we can certainly do it without being alarmist and running around screaming the sky is falling.

May 31, 2011#26

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Stevie-Ray

Here, JD, check out John Kerfoot's Pure Michigan spoof entitled "Monsoon Season." Somebody's got a good handle on this year's rain. NSFW.

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