The sandhills that we have on this place are a lot like that in some places but not others. I was talking to an old bulldozer who was out here pushing trees and he talked about some work he did in the late 60's on this one piece on our ground.. He was at the top of a hill to dig a pit for garbage and not 1 or 2 feet down he hit water. Went to a different spot, same thing.. Finally went to a low area just as a joke and there was no water at all... Made for using windmills to get water very easy, lol... No one would have ever looked for water up on the hills though when we had the marshes and streams down below that are now the crop ground.. There the water table was so high you couldn't put fence posts in as the water would litterly fill the holes andpop them out... With the tiles and ditching of all the ground the water table has dropped down to more like 12 feet or so, although it is up a bit right now because of our wet winter.
For those folks in drier climates, I know the 2 inches sounds like a lot but the grass here was developed (We don't have a lot of native grasses anymore) to need that water.. Even the native grasses needed it... When we got 18 inches of total moisture for a calender year in 05, lots was still green but it sure didn't grow and most was a pale, sickly green or yellow or brown... ABout the only thing that stayed green was the corn and only because we got a shot of moisture in late July that saved it...
We are forcasted for more rain all week.. We are approaching record moisture for a March.. Pushing 6.5 inches right now I think and rain is forasted everyday until June.. this is what 78 and hgh humidty does this time of year.