Guys, Spent 2 of the last 3 days on an 1100 mile Road Trip to go celebrate My FiL & MiL's 60th Wedding Anniversary. Quite an accomplishment in anybody's book. We wound up at Stratford, Tx.Saw a lot of country on this little excursion.
I have been talking about how dry we are here in Texas and I do believe most of the Public Do not believe or comprehend it can be this bad. I will Illustrate in the next few lines to come.
Here At Home,(25 miles S of Lampasas,Tx) we have received some showers around but NO Sustained rain pattern to build the moisture in the Soil Profile We are Green for the most part just waiting for summer and 100* +++ readings to dry out what little we have and then turn brown. This Picture remain for 200 miles North to I-20 at Sweetwater,Tx.
From Sweetwater, Tx to Lubbock, Tx We see the Pastures dry up and the only green is in the Road Ditches. This is where the changes start getting noticeable.
From, Lubbock to Amarillo,Tx the Road ditches really brown out with some green in places. The pastures are all brownish/grey dead of winter look!
From Amarillo to Stratford, Tx pretty much all brownish/grey except for the fresh bud break of the mesquites trees the green of the tree leaves really do pop to the eye in contrast to the dead grass everywhere.
This is the worst part......
Saturday Evening we had a nice meal way out North up in the Oklahoma Strip at a place that caters for events the meal was excellent all had a very nice time. But I any here to talk about the weather and its effects.
The Oklahoma line is about 15 miles north and the place we ate at was another 12 miles North into the Oklahoma Panhandle North of Cimarron Cattle Feeders In Cimarron County Okla.
From Stratford on to Cimarron Feeders, Okla, area The Drought conditions worsened. They have not had much winter snow if any, No rains to speak of, the pastures are just brown to grey. in pastures I have known to always have cover the corners where cattle bunch up were silting some in the high SW wind Saturday evening. No this is not dust bowl proportions just a nuisance at present time.
BUT TEXAS and surrounding areas are Dry, Dry, Dry! Our Drought has been going on for 4+ yrs now. the next time I here someone mention the drought in the Midwest I will just Puke, I think! and Heaven forbid that this week in Agribusiness speak of it at all. Orian Samuelson and Max Armstrong's weather man won't mentions this Drought at all. He is too busy making sure the Mid-West and just about anywhere else But Texas gets reported. If they did report it, it would scare them so their Dentures would fall out!
The Drought is Damm Bad here in Texas and Surrounding areas. I say this with all due respect for others but It is incalculable the problems we have just been sweeping under the table that are water related, or Drought Associated.
My Texas neighbors can vouch for the info here But we are past Serious now.
Sorry Mid West guys I know a drought is hard, No I am not picking on you but as short as your last one was, that is a speed bump to us down here. We are 4+ yrs into this one Now. With 3+ yrs still ahead of us!!
Later,
John A.
I have been talking about how dry we are here in Texas and I do believe most of the Public Do not believe or comprehend it can be this bad. I will Illustrate in the next few lines to come.
Here At Home,(25 miles S of Lampasas,Tx) we have received some showers around but NO Sustained rain pattern to build the moisture in the Soil Profile We are Green for the most part just waiting for summer and 100* +++ readings to dry out what little we have and then turn brown. This Picture remain for 200 miles North to I-20 at Sweetwater,Tx.
From Sweetwater, Tx to Lubbock, Tx We see the Pastures dry up and the only green is in the Road Ditches. This is where the changes start getting noticeable.
From, Lubbock to Amarillo,Tx the Road ditches really brown out with some green in places. The pastures are all brownish/grey dead of winter look!
From Amarillo to Stratford, Tx pretty much all brownish/grey except for the fresh bud break of the mesquites trees the green of the tree leaves really do pop to the eye in contrast to the dead grass everywhere.
This is the worst part......
Saturday Evening we had a nice meal way out North up in the Oklahoma Strip at a place that caters for events the meal was excellent all had a very nice time. But I any here to talk about the weather and its effects.
The Oklahoma line is about 15 miles north and the place we ate at was another 12 miles North into the Oklahoma Panhandle North of Cimarron Cattle Feeders In Cimarron County Okla.
From Stratford on to Cimarron Feeders, Okla, area The Drought conditions worsened. They have not had much winter snow if any, No rains to speak of, the pastures are just brown to grey. in pastures I have known to always have cover the corners where cattle bunch up were silting some in the high SW wind Saturday evening. No this is not dust bowl proportions just a nuisance at present time.
BUT TEXAS and surrounding areas are Dry, Dry, Dry! Our Drought has been going on for 4+ yrs now. the next time I here someone mention the drought in the Midwest I will just Puke, I think! and Heaven forbid that this week in Agribusiness speak of it at all. Orian Samuelson and Max Armstrong's weather man won't mentions this Drought at all. He is too busy making sure the Mid-West and just about anywhere else But Texas gets reported. If they did report it, it would scare them so their Dentures would fall out!
The Drought is Damm Bad here in Texas and Surrounding areas. I say this with all due respect for others but It is incalculable the problems we have just been sweeping under the table that are water related, or Drought Associated.
My Texas neighbors can vouch for the info here But we are past Serious now.
Sorry Mid West guys I know a drought is hard, No I am not picking on you but as short as your last one was, that is a speed bump to us down here. We are 4+ yrs into this one Now. With 3+ yrs still ahead of us!!
Later,
John A.
