Started Wed morn just before dawn...
On Wednesday afternoon had to pull over twice on the road because of no visibility and strong winds.
That's a lot of rain. Hope it lets up for everybody's sake.
May of 1983 I had two crews in Bogalusa (sp?). We were building long aerial telephone water crossings. The office was in Lafayette, hunnert n' sumthin' miles away. It rained until it hurt. There were so many closed roads we spent 2 days trying to find a way to get back to Lafayette without going through Jackson. I think we crossed at Natchez.
I've never seen so much water in my life.
OK "ANTY-UP" Already..
I am always amazed at how some parts of the country get massive amounts of water and other areas, such as California, struggle to conserve every drop. We are in what is now called a severe drought.
Los Angeles is at 35% of normal.
But at least the water at the beaches are clean!
Sorry to hear you guys are going through such bad weather. Wish some of it would come our way and take some of the wet off of you.
Help might be on its way
The great winds groan and shift. That may mean some precip for you soon.
I just don't wanna see what happens to the parched canyons when the rains turn the world to mud. Good luck with it out there.
Help might be on its way
I think we can handle a few extra inches of rain. It really needs to fill all of the reservoirs up north. Farming in the Central Valley has been drastically reduced in the last few years. Almonds alone use 10% of the water. Drove up that way a few years ago and there were a lot of farmers protesting the recent water cut-backs. Now its even worse.
We are more than ready for El Niño. Sounds like the rest of the country needs it also.
Hope it doesn't ruin the fishing!
Care to share a link to that source?
Thanks, Brad
waterdata.usgs
real time data.
They also have an excellent beta program for mobile devices.
This gage is actually closer to my location and received more rain than the Tchefuncte gage..
14" since Wed morning but I think that it is all over now...I think
I hear you Robert... the Amite is really high as well.
Help might be on its way - please
some rain would be great - Phoenix has only had about 1.5" rain this year - short of what should be called normal. I think we can handle all the rain that comes down in the southwest - the worst that would happen is that runoff would reach the Sea of Cortez.
expected to be 109 today, no rain since March, and none expected any time soon.
hello summer.
