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I got 2 inches at my place. However, it came slowly over 2 days so not much runoff.

Still, it's gotta help.

I saw that on radar. Good now you need about 10 times that over the summer.

Yeah hard to believe I am right above you and we are swamped! Fricken raining again today!! Everyone here is tired of it!!!

RC

I wish you could send me some.

Just thinking. One inch of water over one acre is approx. 27,000 gallons. I have 133 acres. So, 2 inches of rain over the 133 acres is 7,182,000 gallons. And, the trees(LOTS of oak trees) will take it, some will evaporate and the rest will temporarily soak into the soil. Some will run into the ponds. In a very short time, it will again be very dry. That's discouraging in an area that is labeled exceptional drought. Over the last 3 or 4 years of very little rain, we need this much every week for quite a while.

Hoping for more rain for you Dave and all the TX boys. We're finally getting cooler temps and wet weather we had hoped would accompany the El Nino [?] pattern this year.

Yeah Dave I have noticed in my pond that it really takes about 4 to 6 inches of rain when it's been real dry to start to make a difference. A lot of it gets used up right away like you said!

Wish I could send some your way bud. Hang in there maybe you will get more shortly!!

RC

It looks like I got about 1 1/2 inches out in west Texas too! Won't know until I get there but it looks promising on the radar.

I know I'm jinxing myself, but here goes.

We hit full pool this morning. After the last couple of years, this was a pleasant surprise. I've got American Lotus that was all the way to the banks last year, and now there are areas that it's 50-60' out in the big puddle.

Normally our rains get killed by the DFW cap, but this last month or two we got tons of rain from the southwest. All that rain slid under Dallas-Ft Worth.

Great news AL! Fingers crossed for everyone else.

Tony, me too. DD1 was coming over to fish last weekend , and I sheepishly had to call and tell him it was storming here. There's just a tremendous rain difference 60 miles west of here. I still don't understand why.

We never had any huge rains, but we got the ground saturated early, and got almost constant runoff in May. 2", 3", 2", they all helped, but it was just luck they all hit us. I'm still making long term drought plans.

Congrats Al...that's welcome news. Wish I could have been on the phone when you told Dave...bet there were some choice words uttered.

Hey we got about 2 inch here as well, same as Dave no runoff and will be dry again soon. We have been in a drought such a long time, perennial plants/grasses and even trees are starting to die. I have a friend about 60 miles north of me that got 7 inches over a week and only filled some of his cattle ponds. But its a great start and we are not complaining! Hopefully another chance this week. If we could get another 2-3 inches over the next week we may get some pond water!

Jake, if you get pond water, Wichita Falls might get drinking water. Does Randlett also get it's water from Wichita Falls?

I'm still having a lot of cedar trees dying from the brutal 2011 summer. I heard that the post oaks will be dying for 10 years due to 2011. And, the last couple of years sure haven't helped.

2 1/2 inches took us to full pool and flushing fish poop.
More rain forecast for Thursday....



Just got to son Jeff's place and checked his rain gauge - 3 1/2 + inches - he left in the rain yesterday morning for trip so good news - haven't seen that much rain in years!
George

Dave if Wichita Falls got any water from this last rain it was not a significant amount. My pond caught about a foot, but it still probably 6-7 feet low. The red river is huge at the crossing, the most it has been here in several years. All that water was from up in Oklahoma but none will go into the Wichita Falls lakes. Randlett gets very little water from Wichita, but other small towns around do. I am on well water at my house thankfully it seems to be holding.

We apparently got 3 inches yesterday and are in the middle of 2+ more as I type this...

I say apparently because I'm currently in Seattle. Just going by talking to the neighbors via email and text. Sounds like it's coming down by the bucket full right now.

I left for Illinois today to meet with 2 clients, crossed the border and the rain started. It rained like a cow whizzing on a flat rock the whole time I was there, and when I get back here the rain gauge hasn't budged. I was gone for 9 hrs.............

And you didn't even stop by and say hi?!?!?

Btw, I am sick of rain... 3" Saturday night Sunday.. And pushing another 3" today!!!

I waved as I went past. Left at 11:30 a.m. for there, left there at 7:00 p.m. for here.

Flood advisories and warnings going on for tonight and later...

One of these day's, you'll get wet

At home we got about the same. I recently moved to Kansas, and within a week it has rained 4 inches and more expected tonight.

Hey everyone! I wanted to bring this one back up instead of starting a new one but My house got about 4 inches last night and possibly that much more to come today! It is too early to tell if the large town of Wichita Falls will catch water in their lakes but the outlook is as good as has been in the last 5 years. My bass pond should catch significant water and perhaps even fill up! It is 8 acres full but about 2 now. That would be an astounding amount of water and in July to boot! I'm in Colorado right now and not even able to see the running water and rain, so I will give a better report in a few days when I get home.

jakeb, I was watching water cascade off the hangar I work in on base (Sheppard)...haven't seen it like that in years! Officially (per the weatherman on KFDX), they're saying 2.12 inches in Wichita Falls. Bowie got 3"...congrats, Dave!

Hopefully more rain tonight! Rain!

I'm glad to hear that you guys are finally starting to get some rain. I just can't imagine living in that heat, plus not getting any significant precipitation for several years.

We are a little dry here. I've not checked the history, but I'd say it is about normal. We usually quit getting rain sometime in June, except for thunderstorms and the occasional tropical storm or hurricane.

My main pond is down about 5 inches from full pool. That is the first time in a couple of years that any of the ponds have gone below full pool. My put-and-take-pond, which is HBG and CC is down 2-3 inches, as are my smaller grow-out ponds. The most I've seen my main pond drop is about 18 inches, and that was several years ago. My main pond is 9 foot deep. My put-and-take pond is about 7 foot deep. If I lost 9 feet feet of water, like a lot of our Texas friends, I'd be in a dessert.

I'm sure the hay farmers around here would crucify me if they heard that I'm hoping it stays dry for a few more weeks -- as it usually does. It means they don't get a 2nd or 3rd hay cutting. But, it gives me a chance to do a lot of pond and general road/property maintenance.

I just finished extending my last driveway culvert by about 9-feet. That is the fourth new culvert or culvert re-build this season. I was tired of getting a washed out driveway, a slipping dam face, and getting stuck when we got near the ditch edge last winter in 4WD vehicles, when the ditches weren't frozen, but the driveway was. It takes a lot more than 10 bad words to get the tractor out of those situations when it sinks to the axles. The front end loader bucket and the backhoe bucket just make a sucking sound when trying to "crab" my way out.

Yesterday, on the main pond, I was able to take out a lot of trees that were within 15 to 20 feet of the north pond edge, using my backhoe. (The west pond edge is the dam -- I slowly got all the trees off the dam over the the last 5-10 years. Mostly pines, they were put in by the previous owner as "erosion control"!) If the water hadn't been down, I wouldn't have been able to get the backhoe in position without danger of sinking at least part of it. It is a pretty steep bank. I could have brought in a dozer or track loader, but ...

The gardens are doing great. I've got my 2-inch semi-trash pump hooked up on a trailer to move from pond to pond so I can water the baby grass on the newest pond's dam, and still do the gardens. I can water the main garden and kitchen garden a few times a week. The few hundred gallons of water for the gardens don't really have much impact on the levels of the ponds.. I figure the ponds probably have 1 to 1-1/2 million gallons of water. Plus, we still do get thunderstorms a few times a week that drop a lot of rain pretty fast.

I'll be doing a rain dance and anti-tornado dance for y'all. (No tornadoes have ever been recorded in the the mountain county I live in.)

Good luck. Stay safe.

Ken

I can't get there until Sunday to check my rain gauge. I'm going nuts. The weather guys have been all over the place from 4.25 to 7 to 10 inches.