Learn to swim

They should know better than to live in areas where that stuff happens.

/oblig

I'll take the flooding over this drought......k/dar

So, basically, they're predicting summer. Summer until fall.

/Well done fellas, well done

Cats and dogs, living together. Real Wrath-Of-God type stuff here.

Il Douchey: So, basically, they're predicting summer. Summer until fall.

/Well done fellas, well done

Summer with a scrapped corn crop that's not even fit for ground feed due to nitrogen content and probably soon-to-be scrapped soy beans, too, for a lot of places.

Il Douchey: So, basically, they're predicting summer. Summer until fall.

/Well done fellas, well done

This.

What hot/dry weather?

/Seattle area resident.
//This Friday sucks donkey balls.

Personally, I would prefer it holds off til ski season. Let it snow

The_Sponge: What hot/dry weather?

/Seattle area resident.
//This Friday sucks donkey balls.

This. Although thunder/lightning storms are kind of cool, this much rain in July is a bit annoying.

Why not just go to the source

That's pretty much what happened a couple of months ago here in the UK - as soon as they started restricting water usage we immediately got some of the wettest months on record, with widespread flooding for much of the country.

JackieRabbit: Why not just go to the source

Wait... That didn't work... Link

Meanwhile in New Orleans...



/Too hot to be quenched by rain
//My drive home ought to be fun...

Subby is correct:

pudding7: Cats and dogs, living together. Real Wrath-Of-God type stuff here.

Unless it gets really dry and then it will be real grapes of wrath type stuff.

Also..



R.I.P.
Gorilla Monsoon

Whaaaaa! Another 60 days in a row over 100 degrees and then you can complain.

p jc51: That's pretty much what happened a couple of months ago here in the UK - as soon as they started restricting water usage we immediately got some of the wettest months on record, with widespread flooding for much of the country.

In fact, this image pretty much sums up what happened:

Il Douchey: So, basically, they're predicting summer. Summer until fall.

/Well done fellas, well done

The difference is there will be no Autumn this year. We're going straight from Summer to Fall.

Mid west? Oh, you mean the loser states. Well, I'll be real sad for you while I'm hanging out in the pool this summer.

/California.
//Yes, we're better than you.

Dear Midwest,
Welcome to Texas.
My advice to you is to drink heavily, and find the nearest river.
Immerse. Drink. Repeat as needed.
You'll thank me.

Food is about to get ugly-expensive. I'd compensate by eating and canning/freezing from my garden and locally grown crops, but what didn't get fubar'd by the hot-freeze-freeze-hot-freeze-freeze-fr eeze is pretty much farked from lack of rain.

KJUW89: The_Sponge: What hot/dry weather?

/Seattle area resident.
//This Friday sucks donkey balls.

This. Although thunder/lightning storms are kind of cool, this much rain in July is a bit annoying.


Not to mention that June sucked ass.....I'm just glad I went to Vegas earlier this month and had some real summer weather.

The only silver lining about today is that I'm home taking a sick day.

/Boss probably thinks I skipped out to see the new Batman movie.

funk_soul_bubby: Summer with a scrapped corn crop that's not even fit for ground feed due to nitrogen content and probably soon-to-be scrapped soy beans, too, for a lot of places.

So biofuel enthusiasts and healthcare nuts are going to be paying through the nose for their ethanol gas and soy products.

Il Douchey: So, basically, they're predicting summer. Summer until fall.

/Well done fellas, well done

That; also, the drought is going to affect corn prices. The price of a bushel of corn is going to go threw the roof; because the sun scorched quite a bit of this year's crop. That means: higher food prices, higher ethanol prices, an decrease in exports, ect, ect.

/ rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey, whiskey makes the ladies feel frisky; rain is a good thing

Snargi: funk_soul_bubby: Summer with a scrapped corn crop that's not even fit for ground feed due to nitrogen content and probably soon-to-be scrapped soy beans, too, for a lot of places.

So biofuel enthusiasts and healthcare nuts are going to be paying through the nose for their ethanol gas and soy products.

I don't know about all that, but I know my dad's been feeding hay for almost a month for lack of grass, and cattle prices have dropped with everybody thinning their herds.

I put panda film down on my garden and have not watered it yet this year.

Maud Dib: Dear Midwest,
Welcome to Texas.
My advice to you is to drink heavily, and find the nearest river.
Immerse. Drink. Repeat as needed.
You'll thank me.

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Until those rivers dry up, that is. In Georgia, we had a nearly six year long period of drought that culminated in 2008. By the end, many of the rivers had shrunk to mere trickles and most lakes had shrunk by a third or more. It took eight months of above average rain for river and lake levels to return to normal. And now were looking at it again, but so far it is nowhere near as bad as it was last time. The cycle of drought and deluge is common in the Southeast, but the severity is increasing the 36 month cycle is becoming erratic.

Great, my yard should be good and toasted by then. Been trying to water on occasion, but don't want to overdo it and run up a massive water bill.

Maybe I should just say screw it and let it burn. Then just reseed the whole thing this fall. Couple of bags of seed is cheaper than 3 months of lawn watering.

Please don't tell me that they said it's going to be a mild winter in the northeast.

Well, I'm looking out my window at the rain that's been coming down for the past couple of days, so I'm getting a kick out of some of these replies...

Headso: I put panda film down on my garden and have not watered it yet this year.

Yeah, but what happens when there's a panda shortage, smart guy?

Yep, just a normal, average summer you farkwits.

Carry on.
/not derpy enough yet though

Honest Bender: Mid west? Oh, you mean the loser states. Well, I'll be real sad for you while I'm hanging out in the pool this summer.

/California.
//Yes, we're better than you.



Enjoy your red, red foreclosures. Probably can see it from space, I'll bet.

The_Sponge: KJUW89: The_Sponge: What hot/dry weather?

/Seattle area resident.
//This Friday sucks donkey balls.

This. Although thunder/lightning storms are kind of cool, this much rain in July is a bit annoying.


Not to mention that June sucked ass.....I'm just glad I went to Vegas earlier this month and had some real summer weather.

The only silver lining about today is that I'm home taking a sick day.

/Boss probably thinks I skipped out to see the new Batman movie.

Did you?

JackieRabbit:

Until those rivers dry up, that is. In Georgia, we had a nearly six year long period of drought that culminated in 2008. By the end, many of the rivers had shrunk to mere trickles and most lakes had shrunk by a third or more. It took eight months of above average rain for river and lake levels to return to normal. And now were looking at it again, but so far it is nowhere near as bad as it was last time. The cycle of drought and deluge is common in the Southeast, but the severity is increasing the 36 month cycle is becoming erratic.


We just went through an epic drought last year. 5-10% of the trees in the state died.
It was worse than the killer drought of the 50's.
Through all of that, that particular river(The San Marcos River) still had water in it.
The Colorado was fine, but I wouldn't necessarily swim in it, it's pretty funky.

A deluge would be nice. My lawn (Which I'll thank you to keep off, thank you very much) is just about dead.

farkstallone55: Did you?


Nope. Even if I were playing hooky today, I would do something else.....I won't see TDKR until next week or so when the crowds decrease.

Anyone know how the rice patties in places like Arkansas are doing? Last I was down there, they looked mostly fine, but that was in May.

NOAA forecast:

The_Sponge: What hot/dry weather?

/Seattle area resident.
//This Friday sucks donkey balls.

Um, no this weather is great. Can't stand it when it gets over 80.

I wish I could be wrong as often as the average weather forecaster is and still keep my job.

ashinmytomatoes: Meanwhile in New Orleans...

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/Too hot to be quenched by rain
//My drive home ought to be fun...

Me, I'm stuck inside on my day off. Even I'm not crazy enough to go out in this mess.

You know this one's gonna be bad when they ask the US AG secretary about what the gov't can do to allieviate the problem and he basically say "Know any good rain dances?"

funk_soul_bubby: Snargi: funk_soul_bubby: Summer with a scrapped corn crop that's not even fit for ground feed due to nitrogen content and probably soon-to-be scrapped soy beans, too, for a lot of places.

So biofuel enthusiasts and healthcare nuts are going to be paying through the nose for their ethanol gas and soy products.

I don't know about all that, but I know my dad's been feeding hay for almost a month for lack of grass, and cattle prices have dropped with everybody thinning their herds.

That's true. I was thinking about cattle prices when I posted the first time but I was thinking prices would go up for all soy and corn uses. My thinking is that dairy production will be affected by lack of good feed so consumers should see a price hike for dairy products at least in the midwest.

Magorn: You know this one's gonna be bad when they ask the US AG secretary about what the gov't can do to allieviate the problem and he basically say "Know any good rain dances?"

Ohmotherfark do not get me started on that "rain dance" shiat. Someone asks me to do it again and I might make them into a friggin' human maypole :P

(Last time we had a drought here, I did have some Granola Hippie (as the cashier at a hardware store!) ask me to do a rain dance because I has enough NDN heritage to be noticeable...when I explained gently that not a single person in my extended family knew a rain dance and likely had not known one for the better part of 150 years, her response was--I am not making this up--"Make one up...the trees need it". As if her newage-rhymes-with-sewage ass couldn't get her flower-child arse outside and do a rain dance HERSELF--it's not like having some Cherokee ancestry gives me SPESHUL MAGICAL NATIVE AMERICAN MOJO to make it rain or some shiat :P)

Colour_out_of_Space: Headso: I put panda film down on my garden and have not watered it yet this year.

Yeah, but what happens when there's a panda shortage, smart guy?

Peak Panda? I never really thought about that.... oh crap!

Long stretches of 100 degree heat here in eastern NE. Huge patches or corn and some soy bean fields are brown and dead. Crop prices will be high this fall, which means food prices and (due to ethanol) fuel prices will be high this winter. Some farmers are starting to cut it down for silage.

I haven't mowed since June. High heat with no moisture stunts grass growth, but now it's mostly just dead. Watering the hell out of my garden. Tomatoes are doing ok, but it's tough on the pumpkins and cucumbers.

The wierdest thing is there have been several days with no wind. The wind is usually so contast around here, it's very strange when everything is just still. It's like the wind has dried up too. Gives the whole landscape a burnt, dry, dead feeling.

Oh, frabjous day! I live in SW Michigan, which means stupidly warm and nearly as stupidly dry for the next three months.