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Like D.I.E.D., we're in a drought of our own down here.

Ponds are 4-5' low. The highs have been in the high 80s or low 90s for awhile now...August will be miserable.

I keep telling you Bruce, you are in the North Central States, not the Midwest. The real Midwest is way to the East of you folks who are smack dab in the middle of the country.

At 3:15 yesterday morn, I was awakened by a huge thunder clap. That cost me about 45 mins of sleep. Hey, it might rain and we only got 9/10 inch. We also got straight line 80 mph winds that took out huge trees, flipped tucks, etc. My house came out OK. It also clobbered electricity and cable TV/internet/VOIP. Got everything back last nite. Oil lamps are OK, Alladin lamps are problematic but my old Coleman lantern was great. The 5 year old Coleman fuel was still good.

Dave,we got the same storm and I didnt even lose power at the house.However,I got an est for over 5 K at my shop for roof damage that my ins said wasnt covered...go figure

We have freezing rain here this morning. It has already taken down some branches, ripped my American flag and it's mount out of the side of the office and froze up the wind speed and direction sensors on my weather station. We are expecting 4 inches of snow accumulation later this morning. It was 78 degrees 2 days ago! Snow on April 25, 2008.

That was a Minnesotan January Thaw.

My dad and I are headed to the ponds tomorrow morning. The new crappie pond is completed, and I will try to get some pics.

Weather.com projects the high at 100. It ain't dry heat, either.

Whoever stopped in San Antonio and decided it would be a nice place to start a city must've had a lobotomy immediately beforehand. It marks the dividing line between the arid hill country and the coastal plains. To the west/northwest is the 100+ dry heat, and to the southeast is the thick, soupy gulf air. We get both.

I always thought a moist oven cooked better anyway - that is unless you were making jerky.

Speaking on behalf of the state of Ohio, we will take an even swap - San Antonio for Cleveland. We get The Alamo and all those (ex?) Air Force bases, Texas gets the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and The Only Damn River in the World That Burns.

P.S. We will throw in the Chamber of Commerce-approved slogan, "The Last Resort"

You guys make me real happy that I live in West Virginia. It doesn't get too hot, it doesn't get too cold, we get reasonable amounts of snow, we don't get tornadoes, we don't have earth quakes, and we have few mosquitoes or other irritating flying bugs. I just wish I could get the garden in. It has rained hard the last four weekends in a row -- then beautiful during the work week. Another 1-1/4 inches of rain last night.

I just read that they can't have the opener of walleye season in Northern Minnesota this morning because the ice still isn't off the lakes.

Rain! I need rain. In Midland, we have had about a half inch of rain since January. The Lazy W pond in Goldthwaite is down about 4 feet.

I second that Heybud. In El Dorado county we are very short of rain as well. March and April were two very bad months. My spillway stopped running this year by mid April, not a good soon.

Normally DIED's pond and mine drop 6-7 feet in a year. Last year they both dropped more like 7-8 feet. Who knows what is in store for this year.

I may have to start a new forum "Mud Hole Boss."

Cat,I hate to see anyone missing out.As Im having an exceptional mosquitoe harvest this year and thier big,fat and bite really well.Ill box up a couple 100,000 and overnite them to you.The package will self-open upon arrival

Tom, need any Elodea for packing material???

While your offer is lucrative, I think I'll pass. San Antonio is actually a nice place if you can overlook 5-6 months of torturous heat. Parts of it have a small-town feel, but it's also the 7th largest city in the country and home to my San Antonio Spurs (though things aren't looking so great for them right now). Our river may be muddy, but it doesn't burn. I suppose we'll claim the Alamo, too.
Even though "Cleveland rocks," you can keep it.

I visited San Antonio once, maybe 10 years ago. I remember the Riverwalk as very charming and dinner in some restaurant rotating at the top of a tall spire. I missed visting the Alamo (by design...I got my fill during PeeWee's Big Adventure).

Nobody ever wants Cleveland!

I'll take the flats. Way back when, when Dski and I had the SeaRay, we dropped it in at Port Clinton and scooted over to Cleveland for a weekend to see the Indy car race at Burke Airport. At that time, the flats were just going thru a renaissance. It was pretty slick.

Frost here tonight in northern Indiana. May 27th. So much for that last frost date of May 15th!

Cecil, thank God for global warming, or you would really be in bad shape.

Global Warming? I prefer to call it Global Climate Change.

106 degrees in Midland, Texas yesterday. Predicted high today is 108, tomorrow high is 109 then it cools off to 103. Ah! and it's only June. Can hardly wait for August.

Yep, just another day in paradise. It does seem a little coolish here with only 99 predicted for today.