Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations It just might be the END of rain for us here in Georgia

Your still a damn yankee to me just kidding. You georgia boys are aways changing your call sign. First Jersey (or was it ponsideion or what ver he is now) speaking of were are you these days Jersey or Pon... who ever you are. Hows you pond looking these days?

I am with you Frank I am disapointed...It was birthday today...hopefully this summer I can get a good birthday present with a good hurican to come through here......But huricans don't hardly come through here...

The South is really smokey. It is as hazy in Birmingham as it was when the steel mills were king, and the moon, about 15 degrees above the horizon from here, is as orange as a pumpkin. My chest, like everyone else’s, is as tight as a drum from breathing all the smoke trapped under this huge and persistent high pressure system.

The good news is that although rain is a distant memory, my ex-pond is only down about eight inches and is still running, even if slightly. I also advised the new owner a couple of months ago to go light on the fertilizer, just in case the dry weather kept up. So, the bloom is a shade lighter than I used to keep it, but I think that even if it doesn't rain soon and the water level keeps falling, there isn't much danger of O2 depletion.
lou
Ex-meister and faithful reader

Well - My drought is broken. I had one hundredth (0.01) inches of rain late in the evening of 5/31. The total for May is 0.01 which is the driest May since 1918 with 0.11 inches.

Frank

Frank, I've been watching for rain around Macon. I'm sorry to say that it has been pretty boring. My condolences. Those of us in Texas know how it feels.

Some of us still do Dave...
I inch total in East Delta County out of the 3 day storm.
Next door Hunt County got 6 inches.
Pond 2 ft low and desperatly needs to flush 5 year nutrient build up.

George, I was going to PM you today to find out whether you had gotten well from that storm.

Dave, we'll get a gully washer one of these days - sooner or later.

I watched Bowie radar long enough for y'all to get your rain - now attention had shifted east..

Dave

Thanks.

There is a tropical storm, Barry, that is supposed to give Florida some significant rain this weekend. Hopefully it will track through S.E. Georgia to assist in fighting that huge wildfire. Hopefully central Georgia will get some as well.

Frank

Good luck guys! It looks like Barry is headed your way!

We have had, for the first time in many years, plentiful rains at my house in the D/FW metroplex and at my land 70 miles NNW. I appreciate the unusual weather patterns. For many years I've envied, maybe coveted, the rains that George has gotten NE of the metroplex. This years I'm getting them and he isn't. I'm now watching his area along with my own. BTW, Lusk told me Thursday that he had gotten 4 inches in the last couple of days.

Each rain at the house here is like a $20 bill since I don't have to water the lawn. We have a bumper crop of mosquitos and are being warned of increased threats of West Nile Virus. Lots of standing water.

In the country, I am maintaining almost full ponds for the first time in many years. The ponds are extremely turbid due to washed in silt and sand plus rotting vegetation from the covered grasses and weeds. Fish reproduction and recruitment are almost nil but this will change. Lots of washed out roads on the place but 4 wheelers get around OK. I wouldn't consider trying to take my pickup through the place. Cattle prices have doubled and hay prices have dropped since the middle of last summer. I now wish I hadn't gotten rid of the cows.

Bottom line? I'll take the rains. When they end, the drought begins. It always does. When it comes to rain, my glass is always half empty.

Finally, much of Georgia is getting some much needed rain. I have had 0.33 inches in a nice slow rain. Southeast Georgia where the wildfires are is getting more - some areas as much as 2-3 inches looking at the NWS radar.

That should really help out out the fires. (I am not sure you guys realize - the fires are almost 600,000 acres in south Ga and north Fla including over 300,000 in the Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. See http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=93286 for more info)

Frank

I just returned from my pond. I received 2.7 inches of rain from T.S. Barry!!! It was nice to see my grass green and see the water level up a bit (but still below full pool by 7-9 inches).

Frank

Not even a 1/10 an inch here. Clients starting to worry about fish.

Frank, that's great!

We got 4/10 inch. Didn't add anything noticeable to the local ponds, but it gave the peanuts a start.

Wow guys...feeling pretty bad up here. We had 3 years of drought, finally broke this spring. Got about 2.5 inches over this past weekend, which was preceded by another couple over the previous week.

This.... [img]http://render2.snapfish.com/render2/is=Yup6aQQ%7C%3Dup6RKKt%3AxxrKUp7BHD7KPfrj%3DQofrj7t%3DzrRfDUX%3AeQaQxg%3Dr%3F87KR6xqpxQQQnxGoJxo00xv8uOc5xQQQ0JlaJGQ0PaqpfVtB%3F*KUp7BHSHqqy7XH6gXPQn%7CRup6lQQ%7C/of=50,590,442[/img]


was followed in about 30 mins by this.... [img]http://render2.snapfish.com/render2/is=Yup6aQQ%7C%3Dup6RKKt%3AxxrKUp7BHD7Kofrj%3DQofrj7t%3DzrRfDUX%3AeQaQxg%3Dr%3F87KR6xqpxQQQnxGoJxo00xv8uOc5xQQQ0JlaJJQlQ0qpfVtB%3F*KUp7BHSHqqy7XH6gXPPP%7CRup6lQQ%7C/of=50,590,442[/img]


Really topped off a nice day. Was the 4th shower tolerated by myself and 8 junior/senior high school students who'd stopped by to fish. Sent 'em home with about 40 NICE HBG, and 3 CC...one of which was 5.2 lbs.

I've waited 4 years for a summer like this...hope you get yours soon.

Nice! Look at all that purdy green.

I measured 1.6 inches of rain last night. It's especially nice because yesterday I helped my (85 year old) neighbor plant about 40 acres of peanuts. After all this dry weather I'll bet he slept well with the sound of the rain.

We are in NE Alabama and built a new pond last summer. It was full by the end of the year. The fat heads that were added when it was about half full are multiplying like crazy and the CC and fun to watch a feeding time. I rarely see the CNBG or RES. We have lost about 3 feet so far and I am getting worried. We haven't gotten to our normal dry season yet. We are currently about 17 inches behind on rainfall for the year. We have an old well close to the house that hasn't been used in years. I may have to put a pump in it, if we don't get some rain.