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Right after I finished renovating my pond (and didn't have erosion mats in place around the pond) Hurricane Ike came thru, dropping 12" of rain in 24 hrs.
Honestly, if that happened now it wouldn't bother me a bit!
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No rain yet, all going north of here. Fortunately, all of our ponds are at full pool.....unfortunately, there was a 100% chance of rain for my area this afternoon......shades of last year?
"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?
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Try being a farmer when the rain bands split and go around you time after time.
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Try being a farmer when the rain bands split and go around you time after time. I hear ya. I would watch a big dark cloud build up over me, drop some very big drops of rain, move east of me, then open up! I wouldn't be surprised if most farmers in Oklahoma are now alcoholics! I've got my fingers crossed as we have had a plethora of rain this year. I even received a 1/2+ from a storm that blew up one mile southwest of me a couple days ago. Unfortunately, it hailed heavily, twice.
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Esshup, I wish you got the rain we have been getting. Everything is just saturated right now. There is water up to and into peoples houses, and this is high-n-dry land, not anywhere near a flood plain. The blueberry fields are like lakes right now.
I'll see what's up with the GW at my property this weekend. I'll bet it is dry tho.
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esshup
All that rain will fill my pond for the first time
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Send some of that water down to Sullivan county NY
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That was last summer for me. Areas only a few miles away in all directions had higher than normal rains, while our local area was as dry as a desert bone. It was goofy to go from our brown, dried lawn to lush green in any direction we drove.
Luckily all caught up now!
Maybe the great lakes will start coming up instead of going down finally? The shipping lanes in the St. Lawrence were talking of blasting again it was getting so low.
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Still raining here... Went and checked Diane's pond and it is up about a foot, which is good... Set a measured stake to see the progress...
Radar is showing it just kinda moving NE with us in the path for quite awhile longer...
Which also means it should still be tracking to esshups neck of the woods... Hoping you get all you need...
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Still raining here too. Ground is saturated. Big pond is filling without the well pump. 3 feet or less to go until it's filled back up.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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It's still raining here, but nothing heavy. The ground, even tho it's sand is saturated so maybe the runoff will start. Once my neighbors water collection hole fills up, it overflows into my pond. Once both are full it starts overflowing into the woods.
Thanks for the well wishes guys! I'll take all the rain I can get right now. The pond hasn't had any outflow for 2 years.
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Some major flash-flooding here and river areas are on flood warning status...till further notice....
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Send rain out way - just getting teasers ....
Three foot low going into summer is scary...
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Dwight, how much snow did you end up with? Got any more pictures? It is really pretty to look at.
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Well in Central IL we ended up with 4+ inches, in some places as much as 8. I came within an inch or so in the big pond of the emergency overflow being used. I was 18" over the top of the culvert, and boy was it making some noise with the whirlpool it was drawing through there. There was some serious water movement. As of this morning the top of the whistle is visible again.
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Well, we ended up with just over 2" in the last 24 hours... I had 3.5 in the last 3 days.. Some people are recording over 5"...
All river and creeks are under flood warnings, but I am not seeing any issues if we don't get any more substatial rain until next week...
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It is hard to be a duck.  Closeup: 
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What beautiful pictures. Everything is nesting here and we have eaglets already.
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I see Spoonbills, Lesser Scaup and a Coot.
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Those duck look pretty cold.
My neighbors, who winter in Arizona came back up last month and headed right back. They came back last week and split again. They said, when the weather get's reasonable!
It did snow for a couple hours today. We don't need any more rain either.
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I talked to my brother earlier today. He is the mayor/dog catcher/grader driver/etc., of a small town on the western end of the Lake Superior shores. He said the snow was actually worse than the news is showing, and it just keeps coming. He said they got about 16 inches overnight. The Duluth-Superior harbor is barely keeping open with two Coast Guard ice breakers. Snow
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Pond froze over during the night. 
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Dwight, I have it on good authority that the "winter that won't end" will indeed end some time the next month or so!  Our shovelers are feeding in the fields because the open water is so cold that invertebrate production is still very low. Kind of hard on late migrants like shovelers.
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it's unseasonably cold here in Oklahoma too. The Misses put out some tomato plants last week and they froze, even though they were covered. More cold weather scheduled next week. This is the craziest, wettest, and coldest weather I've ever witnessed in Oklahoma in my 57 years of living! At this rate, we won't ever have a summer!
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Dwight, I have it on good authority that the "winter that won't end" will indeed end some time the next month or so! Our shovelers are feeding in the fields because the open water is so cold that invertebrate production is still very low. Kind of hard on late migrants like shovelers. As you probably know there was a "year without a summer" back in 1816 in North America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_SummerMust have been an interesting time to be alive in North America as just a few years before were the massive New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 that rang church bells as far as Boston. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%931812_New_Madrid_earthquakes
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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You are the ultimate optimist, aren't you Cecil?
Two ponds, 13 and 15 acres on the Mattaponi River.
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