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Too much rain!

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Sundancer

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Rain, Rain, go away! Since the 4th of August we have received nearly 20 inches of rain. Today schools are closed due to flooded country roads. The TV is reporting this morning that one nearby town is without water ( :o ) due to flooding of the water works department. We have had extremely high humidities the last few weeks and even though it rains every day we can't seem to shake this system. The forcasters are saying that the next few days should be dryer, but then next week we get another round due to the remnants of the Hurricane. Harvest is approaching and the fields are soppy. Third cutting of hay can not be made and since time marches on, a fourth cut will probably not be in the picture. A few guys are stalled out cutting corn silage and that is one thing that kinda needs to be done on time for proper storage. Always something it seems out here in the country :!:
 
Sorry to hear it Sundancer. Makes for stressful times when it gets to the point of flooding folks out. Hopefully it subsides soon before it gets worse. We rarely get a second cut of hay in our part of the country, but this year the first cut was half of the average. We buy all of our hay, but our neighbours had 25-30% of their usual silage crop. We went 34 days from the end of June to first of August without a rain, and 90deg temperatures or hotter. In the last 2 weeks we've had 2.5", so our pastures have come back, but it's far too late for the cereals and oilseeds. Barley I hear is running 40lbs per bushel. Some later seedes crops are just being written off for feed. Makes me glad I'm a grassfarmer, watching all these poor folks watch their harvest go down the drain.
 
sundancer-- I sure wish you could send some up here...We're so dry that the whole country is about to burn up or blow away....I just saw in the paper where they are going to have to call the State Legislature back into session to come up with some more money- as the Firefighting Fund that was supposed to cover this year and next is already used up....
The penalty we pay for everybodies 20 acre ranchette in the trees- and all our "no lumbering" policies...

But just to tease everyone--Ma Nature sent some clouds over about 6AM- and put down a couple little showers...Barely enough to get the ground wet- but enough to keep us from getting the rest of the hay baled... :roll:
 
Sundancer, sounds like the cool front is going to push this system down south a bit, it will get er out of here but I hope it will push far enough south to get it out of there too.. Another 3/4's last night..I've stopped counting now for the most part.. Man is it squishy out there.. We have been lucky here, the storm split and went around here yesterday but it is awful to the east, north and south of here.
 

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