OT- Tanks are full and Bear Creek is flowing!

[rangerider7]

I just got back from the ranch and all the tanks are full and Bear Creek is flowing again. It has been two years of drought here in central Texas and I'm glad to see the water.

[20cows]

Grand!!!

[gamekeeper]

That should make a big difference to the wildlife, happy hunting.

[DBW]

As I drive around the country I've observed it has been a cooler, wetter year than most. My home state of Oklahoma is abundantly green with full stock ponds.

[deerwhacker444]

If that hurricane keeps coming up the way they're predicting, you might have more water than you want come the end of this week....

[rangerider7]

We have had serious overflow before but if it handled the flood we had before it should handle anything. All the overflow eventually goes into lake Whitney. We have had it up to my back steps at home, that are on corp land before, and that is a 27 foot rise in the lake level. The ranch is on some of the highest land in the county. If you don't have an off road pick-up you might as well stay home.

[allhands]

Too bad we can't build a pipeline from the Northeast down to you fellas....We had way too much rain in the late spring and early summer, but glad to hear your water problems are ending!!!!!!

[Hillbilly]

this is the first sunny weekend we have seen in Central OK for a while. Seems we had 3 days of rain per week since August.

the counties cleaned up some creek bottoms after the floods a couple of years ago.

Glad you guys broke the dry spell in Texas... everyone was dumping beef and prices were way down. Our hay came in real nice with the extra wet ground this year.

[76/444]

Nothing makes a nice ride nicer than coming on a full tank that the dogs can swim in and the horses get a drink without sloshing through muck! Glad you got some rain.

[66GTO]

If that hurricane keeps coming up the way they're predicting, you might have more water than you want come the end of this week....

Man, don't scare me like that! Sitting here on the Gulf Coast I try to keep track of storms and have not heard any news of one.

I checked the weather web sites and found Hurricane Rick in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico. Winds have dropped to 160 mph! Gusts to 195! Most of those storms track out into the Pacific, but this one looks to be headed to the NE through Baja and Mexico, then Texas.

You boys in Texas keep yer powder dry.

[crs]

Is your Bear Creek the same one up where H 16 crosses Interstate 20?

[rangerider7]

It might be but I'm not sure. Sorry.

[Birdman]

Central Illinois has been wet since spring. A late planting season and very little harvest completed so far. Next year we'll probably be in a drought.

[Griff]

RR7,

Last Wednesday, I pulled into the truck stop in town, called the wife, and asked her to come get me, or let me know if I can drive the truck down our road...

Her words... "it's been raining since February, it's 9:30 at nite, I'm asleep and you want me to what?"

After 38 years, I've learned a thing or two... so, I stayed in the truck and left for El Paso the next morning. Wet all the way till I got the west side of Abilene, and just drying out all the way to Pecos! Glad to see ya'll got some water... we need the relief!

[Bruce Scott]

Nothing makes a nice ride nicer than coming on a full tank that the dogs can swim in and the horses get a drink without sloshing through muck! Glad you got some rain.

I'm a little confused. I thought rangerider7 was talking about this sort of tank.


I guess it's the runoff catching, hole in the ground variety - known as a dam around here. Either way, its always good to have 'em full.

[76/444]

Nothing makes a nice ride nicer than coming on a full tank that the dogs can swim in and the horses get a drink without sloshing through muck! Glad you got some rain.

I'm a little confused. I thought rangerider7 was talking about this sort of tank.


I guess it's the runoff catching, hole in the ground variety - known as a dam around here. Either way, its always good to have 'em full.

Sorry,... but here in Arizona cattle country, "TANKS" are earthen catch basins for mostly monsoon run off. Usually about an acre plus or so in size. Some have windmills, some have pipe from wells for dry season,... but, when a "Tank" is mentioned in conversation, it is at least an acre bulldozed pond,... where the antelope play and the skies are not cloudy all day!!