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It happened again! 24 hour rainfall totals from last night: BTW, I live in that strip down the middle!
East Central Missouri 1 1/4 acre pond, build fall 2011 1/8 acre baitfish pond build fall 2022
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Arg, that is so frustrating!!!! The weather is trying its best to miss us tonight, but I think it is going to fail miserably. We may wind up with too much of a good thing. Go from bone dry to "oh crap". Looks like maybe 2+ inches, which for the pond if it all runs off from 16 acres is a LOT of water.
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Oh well, what seemed a sure thing for heavy rain split in two on our doorstep and fired off a severe storm to our east. Wound up with 0.23" which is better than a sharp stick in the eye, but nowhere near the 2" dumped 3 miles to our east.
The weatherman has been predicting drought-busting rain all week for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Just as it is supposed to arrive, all of a sudden the weatherman retracts the forecast and knocks down the chances and quantity. It does seem like a cruel joke.
Weathermen have become too dependent on computer models. One step better than pure guesswork, but three steps worse than observations and human intuition/experience.
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Hay that is better than the 0.11 we got on Wednesday and nothing yesterday. Everything that went at you developed just east of me. This is getting ridiculous.
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I can to related to most every statement here. Ever since we built the pond the rain seems to split and go around us. Recently we got .6 and then a 1" yesterday. Any amount is helpful, but a far cry from what we need. It would seem fall is upon us...strange year. I fear what winter will bring
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We got another half inch last night, that's rain two days in a row! We're extremely glad to receive it, and would appreciate any more that might care to fall.
I hope the rest of the PB community receives what they need as well. This hurts all of us, in one fashion or another.
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1) And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1) Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT? PB answer: It depends.
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I feel like we all need to get into a counseling group in our little folding chairs and gripe to each other about our woes. Maybe Matthew Perry will help score us to see who has the worst record on pond fillage.
What really irks me is some folks around the corner have let their pond go to the wild, choked out with trees and plants, but I'll be darned if that thing doesn't stay full thanks to some good springs.
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Raining pretty good now. Quite a few diehard roller coaster fans all bundled up zooming around in the rain.
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I fear what winter will bring This is another time where maybe we can learn from or at least look at what happening in 1936. But I warn you you will not like what you see. Buy a propane contract now if you can.
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I think we are going to have another mild winter.
When I went outside this morning, I said to myself WT?! It was just like a soggy and cold October morning. I grabbed a sweat shirt and cranked on the heater.
It's warmed up since then. Now it's 57.5F outside.
Crazy man!
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We didn't get that much rain where I'm at but it looked rainy if you know what I mean. It appears other parts of the state got rain and hopefully those that needed it.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Just curious, me being a young buck and all, what happened in the winter of 1936?
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"I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far." � Neil Simon,
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Wow, simply incredible. Lets hope history doesn't repeat itself on this one. Does this drought and heat wave stack up to 1936? I've heard mentions around here in Eastern Iowa of "worse than 88" and "similar to 76(?)".
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Bing beat me to it. Great question!
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Didn't the 1936 heat wave follow, not precede, a terribly cold winter?
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1) And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1) Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT? PB answer: It depends.
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Got 1.75" last night, actually caused a flash flood warning. Hopefully, other areas got some relief as well.
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1) And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1) Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT? PB answer: It depends.
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Count your blessing, I got a grand total of .03". I had to spend time in Chicago this week and on my way back to the farm yesterday drove though the storm that got you. That just added insult to injury.
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I got between 4 and 4.5 inches last evening. The pond is full and going over the overflow about 4 inches deep. When the pond is at full pool, that is when the water is just trickeling over the overflow, the gunnel of my bass boat sits even with the top of the boards on my dock. Last night the boat was floating at least 4 inches over that.
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Lucky dog! It is so dry here I am not sure a 4" rain would have any run off. The cracks in the ground are 2" wide and very deep.
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I am so glad some of you got that rain, but that MCS stole our thunder (pun intended) and dried the front that was supposed to give us rain right up. Nothing but a quick shot of drizzle today. :-(. The insult is 10 miles to the north of me looks like lush jungle compared to my dry haystack. Oh well, starting to give up caring as winter will be on us soon, and I am sure we will pay for this dry, hot summer with a few snow storms that will require an excavator to get down my driveway.
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Lucky dog! It is so dry here I am not sure a 4" rain would have any run off. The cracks in the ground are 2" wide and very deep. I see I'm still in the exceptional category. Momma' always did say I was special.
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1) And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1) Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT? PB answer: It depends.
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I see I'm still in the exceptional category. Momma' always did say I was special. Same story here.
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It's not looking good for us folks in NE, KS and OK. All the reports I've been reading think its going to get worse between now and the first of the new year. KS and NE are facing one of the worse years for the up coming hunting season.
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We've got almost 2" in the last 3 days, and it looks like a chance for more all next week.
Rain's been great for the pastures and yard, but never enough at one time to really run off and help the lake.
Made a trip up to Blue Ridge TX this week, and guys up there were bailing burnt up corn stalks. Hope you guys get some rain this Fall or it's going to be a rough Winter too.
What's weird this year is that there's plenty of hay for sell around here. This year $40 to $50 a round bale, and last year what you could find was over a $100 a bale. Some hay guys have told me that just getting your pastures cut has been really expensive. Guys are being charged $35 a bale just to get it cut. Diesel, chemicals, fertilizer, they're all shooting up this year and raising the prices for everything else.
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