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Lott's Bandana
3/24/2011, 06:28 PM
According to data from the Oklahoma Mesonet, the previous 120-day span (November 24, 2010-March 23, 2011) is the driest such period on record for central and southwestern Oklahoma. The average rainfall recorded in central Oklahoma over that period stands at 2.42 inches, 5.88 inches below normal.
Precipitation totals are running less than 40 percent of normal for the western one-half of the state, worsening to less than 20 percent of normal for southwestern and parts of central Oklahoma. The statewide average of 3.45 inches for the last 120 days ranks as the third driest such period on record. These statistics, along with growing reports of crop failures and dismal pasture conditions, has prompted the U.S. Drought Monitor to expand the "extreme drought" (D3) designation from southwestern Oklahoma up through Oklahoma County. More:
http://climate.ok.gov/newsmedia/default.php?release=Extreme+drought+spreads+to+cen tral+Oklahoma
Lott's Bandana
3/24/2011, 06:29 PM
Dean's not likely to make hay out of this.
I say bring it on. I always thought those people in the 30's exaggerated the s**t out of it. Bring it on in 2011 and we'll be just fine
I say bring it on. I always thought those people in the 30's exaggerated the s**t out of it. Bring it on in 2011 and we'll be just fine
Heh.
C&CDean
3/24/2011, 06:35 PM
No, "we" won't be fine. I will be fine since I have a full year's crop of hay still put back, but the average year-to-year Okie is ****ed if we don't get some rain.
One more week in DC, then I'm coming home. I'm gonna send a shower this weekend, and maybe more to follow. Please, Lord, let it rain...
Lott's Bandana
3/24/2011, 06:39 PM
The Marina at Thunderbird is getting ready to re-open after being rebuilt from its tornado destruction...except the water levels are getting so low, many sailboats won't be able to use it yet.
No, "we" won't be fine. I will be fine since I have a full year's crop of hay still put back, but the average year-to-year Okie is ****ed if we don't get some rain.
One more week in DC, then I'm coming home. I'm gonna send a shower this weekend, and maybe more to follow. Please, Lord, let it rain...
The average year-to-year Okie? What average demographic are you talking about? I'm assuming yours?
Lott's Bandana
3/24/2011, 06:41 PM
Thunderbird: March 20. Elevation 2 3/4 ft. below normal, water clear.
Wes Watkins: March 21. Elevation 4 ft. below normal, water 63 and clear.
From the State Department of Wildlife, 3/24
The Marina at Thunderbird is getting ready to re-open after being rebuilt from its tornado destruction...except the water levels are getting so low, many sailboats won't be able to use it yet.
Lake Dirty Bird, where dreams go to die, and if you live in Norman and drink the tap water, you'll develop cancer in 15-25 years!
Thunderbird: March 20. Elevation 2 3/4 ft. below normal, water clear.
:rolleyes:
Lott's Bandana
3/24/2011, 06:43 PM
No, "we" won't be fine. I will be fine since I have a full year's crop of hay still put back, but the average year-to-year Okie is ****ed if we don't get some rain.
One more week in DC, then I'm coming home. I'm gonna send a shower this weekend, and maybe more to follow. Please, Lord, let it rain...
If you have hay put back, and no more cattle, are you sitting on a potential price premium for your supply, or will you hold it back to help out the neighbors?
(I'm guessing I know this answer already.)
Lott's Bandana
3/24/2011, 06:44 PM
The north/south leg of T-bird is usually fairly clear all the time...the east/west? Notsomuch.
We had a similar situation in Atlanta a few years back. Lake Lanier was becoming bone dry and water restrictions were the norm.
It sucks but it will pass (hopefully for you guys).
Sooner5030
3/24/2011, 06:46 PM
along with silver in PVC pipe, I buried poly tanks to use as cisterns so I can sell water to you fools when we go mad max. I also hoarded tampons, cigs and booze and put them in the cellar next to my heirloom(sp) seeds.
along with silver in PVC pipe, I buried poly tanks to use as cisterns so I can sell water to you fools when we go mad max. I also hoarded tampons, cigs and booze and put them in the cellar next to my heirloom(sp) seeds.
Start hoarding some scotch or whiskey, not much else will keep long term. Well it'll keep but it won't improve.
I got a nice Katydan water Filter. I'll be drinkin the ****-water out of Lake Thunderbird.
Sooner5030
3/24/2011, 06:51 PM
my dad tells me I can make a good filter just outta charcoal and sand (that's how he grew up) but I have yet to try a DIY filtering process.
I got a nice Katydan water Filter. I'll be drinkin the ****-water out of Lake Thunderbird.
You sir, are a smart man.
You sir, are a smart man.
Well thank you. I figure it'll be good to be by a lake when TSHTF. That way I can easily access a raft. I'm thinkin the zombies will not be able to swim.
Lott's Bandana
3/24/2011, 06:56 PM
Well thank you. I figure it'll be good to be by a lake when TSHTF. That way I can easily access a raft. I'm thinkin the zombies will not be able to swim.
You may have something there. They find zombie parts in Thunderbird and Draper all the time.
jkjsooner
3/24/2011, 07:22 PM
I say bring it on. I always thought those people in the 30's exaggerated the s**t out of it. Bring it on in 2011 and we'll be just fine
Well now we have shelter belts and follow better agricultural practices. Our economy is also not as highly dependent on agriculture.
Nobody whose livelihood depended on agriculture would wish those conditions to exist again.
olevetonahill
3/24/2011, 07:39 PM
Done told Dean , I got this. Had my fat white *** O/S a dancing every day
Do need to find some one to Beat the drum tho;)
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3/24/2011, 08:33 PM
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cantwait48
3/24/2011, 09:44 PM
good, maybe the dumb okies will move to Cali again.
OU_Sooners75
3/24/2011, 10:21 PM
Not sure if it has been said...but if we do have another Dust Bowl, it will not be like it was in the 1930s.
Thanks to the US Government, farmers now know how to cultivate the lands.
I remember back in the 1990s we have some dust storms...they sucked balls, but they were no where near what they had back in the 1930s.
SoonerStormchaser
3/24/2011, 10:31 PM
This is God's way of punishing us for tolerating morons on this board and then trying to neg them to Bolivia. :eek:
I blame the posse!
Curly Bill
3/25/2011, 12:12 AM
The posse is the root of all evil. They're such bastages. I hear they're responsible for the SPEK feature being all f**ked now.
saucysoonergal
3/25/2011, 08:38 AM
Well, I blame young guys that marry older women.
olevetonahill
3/25/2011, 08:42 AM
Well, I blame young guys that marry older women.
Heres the song fer it , But hell when they get older than me they turn to Vinagar:eek:
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texaspokieokie
3/25/2011, 09:02 AM
Not sure if it has been said...but if we do have another Dust Bowl, it will not be like it was in the 1930s.
Thanks to the US Government, farmers now know how to cultivate the lands.
I remember back in the 1990s we have some dust storms...they sucked balls, but they were no where near what they had back in the 1930s.
i lived in the mojave in the spring of 63, had many dust storms. not like those
shown from ok.
3 different times, over the last 45 yrs or so, i've had the front of my car "sand blasted", in the desert. (not same car) ruins paint & windshield.
KC//CRIMSON
3/25/2011, 09:14 AM
This is God's way of punishing us for tolerating morons on this board and then trying to neg them to Bolivia.
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olevetonahill
3/25/2011, 09:17 AM
Some MOrans are just cuter than bugs :D
Lott's Bandana
4/17/2011, 03:56 PM
Still hasn't rained a drop since I first posted.
Sigh.
oulucas
4/17/2011, 04:35 PM
More:
http://climate.ok.gov/newsmedia/default.php?release=Extreme+drought+spreads+to+cen tral+Oklahoma
I'm going to need to know which party supports this idea before I decide whether or not I believe it. ;)
Seriously, though. My mom was a baby during the "dirty thirties" as they were called. She lived in SW Kansas not all that far from where that picture was taken in Beaver, OK. My grandmother said they'd have all the doors and windows shut and a wet cloth draped over my mother's crib and in not time at all it would be complete mud. Now that I think about it, why the hell did she use a wet cloth?
proud gonzo
4/17/2011, 05:51 PM
I'm going to need to know which party supports this idea before I decide whether or not I believe it. ;)
Seriously, though. My mom was a baby during the "dirty thirties" as they were called. She lived in SW Kansas not all that far from where that picture was taken in Beaver, OK. My grandmother said they'd have all the doors and windows shut and a wet cloth draped over my mother's crib and in not time at all it would be complete mud. Now that I think about it, why the hell did she use a wet cloth?
to keep the dirt out--dirt sticks to the damp cloth instead of the baby.
olevetonahill
4/17/2011, 05:57 PM
to keep the dirt out--dirt sticks to the damp cloth instead of the baby.
Plus it helps keep the youngun cool
pphilfran
4/17/2011, 06:01 PM
Plus it helps keep the youngun cool
You mean it is like Dust Bowl Bling?
soonercruiser
4/18/2011, 10:28 PM
Lake Hefner is 6 feet below normal.
(Zombies are still at Stars & Stripes Park) :confused:
"Sprinkled" twice in the yard last week! :D
Lott's Bandana
4/24/2011, 03:07 PM
Finally.
A nice Easter soaking.
Lovin the Sunday rain.
tulsaoilerfan
4/24/2011, 04:27 PM
Finally.
A nice Easter soaking.
Lovin the Sunday rain.
We've had enough of it here time to move out or else we're going to have some real flood danger soon
I've been running 3 times a week for the last 9 months and this is the first time I've had to face rain. I got absolutely soaked and it felt great (as did the hot shower after).
BudSooner
4/25/2011, 06:49 AM
We've had enough of it here time to move out or else we're going to have some real flood danger soonIt's ****ing rained since a week ago Saturday, the Illinois River at flood stage is 11.2, it's now 24.5....and the total rainfall so far is 10" i'm drowned.:mad:
Someone throw me a tube or a wake board, it'll be much easier to navigate our streets here....if Tahlequah so much as gets a shower around NSU the streets flood.
Funny thing is our apartment has a pseudo stormwater retention pond that overflows into the nearby creeks, well that has overflowed into our parking lot. Yeah, that was some brilliant thinking right thar.
C&CDean
4/25/2011, 09:31 AM
I tossed the dice last week and came up a winnah!!
I spent all afternoon last Thursday and Friday spreading urea on the pastures. At $475 a ton it was a real gamble.
On Friday night, right when the fertilizer buggy was running out I got a couple drops on my arm. Just south of me was a giant black wall. I got the tractor/buggy into the barn, walked to the house, and got in the shower. I got out and looked out the window and there was some light rain going on. About a half-hour later, it came a bunch of rain/hail and it probably dropped 2+inches. It rained most of the day Saturday, and all day Sunday. My rain gauge is broke, but I know we had to have at least 4+ inches. The grass has turned emerald green, and it's already grown over an inch since Friday. I got about half the Deanarosa done, and hope to get the rest done this week sometime - if it'll quit raining...
Lott's Bandana
4/25/2011, 09:41 AM
I tossed the dice last week and came up a winnah!!
I spent all afternoon last Thursday and Friday spreading urea on the pastures. At $475 a ton it was a real gamble.
On Friday night, right when the fertilizer buggy was running out I got a couple drops on my arm. Just south of me was a giant black wall. I got the tractor/buggy into the barn, walked to the house, and got in the shower. I got out and looked out the window and there was some light rain going on. About a half-hour later, it came a bunch of rain/hail and it probably dropped 2+inches. It rained most of the day Saturday, and all day Sunday. My rain gauge is broke, but I know we had to have at least 4+ inches. The grass has turned emerald green, and it's already grown over an inch since Friday. I got about half the Deanarosa done, and hope to get the rest done this week sometime - if it'll quit raining...
This is allsome. I told Ref you were probably out there getting it done.
Lott's Bandana
4/25/2011, 09:47 AM
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87sooner
4/25/2011, 09:48 AM
i live near enid..
my anhydrous ammonia is applied...
finished last week burning down my fields with roundup/2-4-d...
and last night we got a really nice rain....prolly between 1/2 inch and an inch...
now i'm ready to start planting milo.....
dust bowl? nahhhhhhhhhh.......
Lott's Bandana
4/25/2011, 10:01 AM
i live near enid..
my anhydrous ammonia is applied...
finished last week burning down my fields with roundup/2-4-d...
and last night we got a really nice rain....prolly between 1/2 inch and an inch...
now i'm ready to start planting milo.....
dust bowl? nahhhhhhhhhh.......
Hope not.
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C&CDean
4/25/2011, 10:03 AM
i live near enid..
my anhydrous ammonia is applied...
finished last week burning down my fields with roundup/2-4-d...
and last night we got a really nice rain....prolly between 1/2 inch and an inch...
now i'm ready to start planting milo.....
dust bowl? nahhhhhhhhhh.......
You put your anhydrous down a month or two ago didn't you?
I only farm grass hay. Once the sprigging is done, you're good for a lot of years - as long as you keep on top of the soil condition and bust up the ground every 5 years or so. I know some guys who do the whole roundup/paraquat thing on their grass pastures, but I've never seen the point. Good luck on your milo. You growing it for feed?
87sooner
4/25/2011, 10:11 AM
You put your anhydrous down a month or two ago didn't you?
I only farm grass hay. Once the sprigging is done, you're good for a lot of years - as long as you keep on top of the soil condition and bust up the ground every 5 years or so. I know some guys who do the whole roundup/paraquat thing on their grass pastures, but I've never seen the point. Good luck on your milo. You growing it for feed?
yeah...the nh3 went on back in march....
burndown was a pain with all the wind we had recently....could only spray a couple days a week when the wind was light...
i grow milo to sell....sold all my cattle about 10 years ago...
C&CDean
4/25/2011, 10:26 AM
I sold all my cattle a little over a year ago. Didn't want to, but those ice storms took out over 2 miles of fence. Best thing I ever did. I've made more off hay than I ever did off cows.
NormanPride
4/25/2011, 11:27 AM
Everyone likes hay.
texaspokieokie
4/25/2011, 03:31 PM
good, maybe the dumb okies will move to Cali again.
they were much more desparate than dumb.
achiro
1/29/2013, 11:31 AM
It's getting a bit scary in this part of the state and worse in some others.
badger
1/29/2013, 12:15 PM
RAAAAAAAAAAIN!
http://www.mesonet.org/data/public/mesonet/maps/realtime/today.rainrfc.png
Just starting to hit Tulsa!
Lott's Bandana
1/29/2013, 04:51 PM
Again Norman gets a trace. 1/4 inch is insignificant, but the map shows how it has been now for 2 years. Inch all around but here. Norman has become a big rain shield and the drought centers over the town like a bullseye.
We are on water rationing, buying water from Little Dixie and Lake Thunderbird's ramps have been closed since August.
badger
1/29/2013, 04:57 PM
Yeah, Tulsa's not to that point yet, but we'll all be headed in that direction if the dry weather continues. Good time to think conservatively
Midtowner
1/29/2013, 05:58 PM
good, maybe the dumb okies will move to Cali again.
Didn't Will Rogers observe that the migration of the okies raised the collective IQ of both states? (Oklahoma and California)
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