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Its been raining all day here we have gotten an inch so far today were suppose to get a few more inches tonight and there saying around 3 inches tomorrow. If it keeps this up i am gonna have a full pond! How much rain have you texas boys seen?
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I've seen about 1/2 inch here in the metroplex with rain forecast off and on through tomorrow afternoon. I don't know how much I've gotten on my land 70 miles NNW of the D/FW metroplex. However, ypu can bet I'll call as soon as it is all over.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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I don't know about Texas, but here in Mo. it started raining here late this evening. Got 1/8th so far. Its supposed to keep raining thru Tuesday. Fingers crossed here.
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4 inches here at NASA area. It all went right into the Gulf.
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I was just woke up by a big crashing sound, i forgot to put my umbrella down on my table in the front of my house and it went through my front glass door. I thought someone was breaking in my house. The winds are gusting to 45 mph.
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We've had just over 3.5 inches at the ranch so far...but looks like we just caught the start of a "train" of rain according to the radar so could easily get a lot more inches this morning. Wonderful rain!
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Heybud - How's Zephyr Pond making out??
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I doubt Heybud is getting as much of this great stuff as we are catching in East Texas. I'm now at 5 plus inches and the "train" is really running...about 2 inches an hour now.
Gator, Eddie, BarO, LoopTech, etc. should be seeing a lot of this later on this morning. Great stuff. Wicked must be looking at a flood and a full or filling pond!
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3.8 inches in my rain gauge in Plano – 3 inches in our ponds in Delta County. Haven’t seen rain like this in years and more on the way... Fatty McB – ‘ya done good...
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It's raining too hard to see the rain gage from my patio door, and I'm not about to go out in it! It's really gnasty here. Tornado watches and dark as night. Radar shows plenty more coming up from the gulf.
I hope everyone gets a brimming full pond. I'm backward as usual. I'll be pumping perfectly good water out of my pond and wasting it.
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congrats on the needed liquid sunshine for all who got it. DD..hope you have a good report.
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I am right at about 2 inches since yesterday havent seen any real heavy rains just steady rain. My pond is looking pretty good.
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Some answered prayers for sure. Ya'll have had it rough in Texas. I hope this is the beginning of a good run of water, and hopefully El Nino will add much much more to your water table, over the next few months.
I'm fixing my pond right now, at least hopefully, and the earth mover said he had a spring that he had never seen go dry, go dry, on his farm.
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Well, Will Mackerels never sneeze! Err, uh, is that Miracles never cease? We have 2 inches in the rain gage this morning, Woo Hoo!!!! I think more is on the way if not today they say Wednesday. Y'all in Texas keep up the rain dance, its finally workin'!!! :p
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I'm glad for all of you getting rain who needed it. It really takes a load off your mind doesn't it?
Gotta get back to fishin!
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bz, I know for me it helps alot to see some rain, however I also know that this is just a drop in the buckett or pond, I as well as many others in here would have to have 10-20 inches of rain to really make a diference.
But its a start.
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Well then let's pray for 20 inches! Thankfully my pond level was only about a foot down because of the drought. But a foot low is a lot when the average is only about 6 feet and in this cold part of the country where I might have 3 feet of ice this winter. We had enough rain to bring my level up to normal for this time of year. Now I just have to hope and pray for a mild winter so I don't get 3 feet of ice. My pond had ice on it for the fist time this year a couple of days ago.
Gotta get back to fishin!
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9.5 inches now and more on the way. Looks like this will be our annual 100 year rainfall event. It's going to surpass Rita's 10 inches last year.
During a momentary lull, went to check things out. Some amazing sights:
1) a herd of deer flushed out of the bottoms by water and reluctant to leave the pond dam even in my presence.
2) a FH minnow slaughter of epic proportions. During the summer, I stocked a couple of pounds of FHs in a small area isolated by low water from the main body of the pond. Those FH's were washed into the main pond and are now being abused by LMB and HSB...what a sight!
3) a no longer future pond site was completely covered by several feet of water....proving once again, you can throw out the watershed tables in East Texas and you better have good natural spillways in every pond built around here or pay the price.
The H59 corridor through East Texas has to be one of the very best locations in this great Country for ponds....please excuse my exuberance. I hope many of you also benefited from this wonderful rain event or will very soon.
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Wow ML, Mucho Raino! We got .90" yesterday and last night. Sun is starting to shine now with 1.2" more since 7AM. It looks like 2" for this front in last 2 days. It added about 6" to the pond. Send some of the extra up north, ML.
20 acres of trees & 3/4 acre pond.
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Wound up with 2 inches in Hurst and 3 inches in the country. It all fell slowly so not much runoff.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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BarO, Current radar looks like most of the remaining rain is headed toward Cajun Country...but the forcast is for more in East Texas on Thursday. I'd be most happy for FattyMB to direct his rain dance Northward. Total rainfall at the ranch now sets at 11.5 inches for this event, most of which came today. Earlier in the afternoon, I estimated we had 40 acres under water and that's a conservative estimate...build your house on a hill in East Texas, build your ponds with large natural spillways, and always, always park your equipment on high ground.
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Muched needed 2.10 in at my place..I had just(Friday) planted 15 acres of a wheat,rye,oats and crimson clover mix..This rain fell over a 24 hour period and there was very little run-off
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ML did your ponds fill up? We have gotten two 2 inch rains the past two weekends. Our front pond on the home place is now only about a foot below spillway, The new pond has caught about 7 ft of water and still has about 7 feet to go. I hope retired life is treating you well. If you get bored I still have all that dirt to move.
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I got 7" in the past 36 hours. My poor old trash pump is in for a serious workout.
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Originally posted by rockytopper: ML did your ponds fill up? ... I hope retired life is treating you well. If you get bored I still have all that dirt to move. RT, Brim full. Every chance I got I checked the spillways during this event. On a couple of ponds, water was pouring about a foot deep from both spillways...that's a lot of water. No problem with boredom...yet. I'm doing some "telecomuting" consultation for a company and don't have to leave the Ranch. It's great. I've got several Ranch projects in work but really want to get to building a garage/apartment soon and look forward to talking to you about that. Sounds like you have done an excellent job of catching water for your ponds. Hopefully you will be brim full soon!
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