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Looks like more to come too...weather seems to be about twice as violent there than anywhere!! Hold onto Chupa!.I think Ben will be fine just a little uncomfortable.
This might be a good time to dig back a little on the road. My dogs can dig well when the ground is damp. I keep forgetting that I have bags of dirt in the truck to fill in the holes but they like their holes.
Heck - John Wells is going to have the non residents thinking it rains a lot on the Terlingua Ranch! With videos of rain damaged roads and photos of storm clouds moving across the area. Those things do happen - but not with a great frequency! The normal rainfall there - is only about 10 inches per year!
We had a great little cattle pond - that remained almost bone dry for about 10 years! Then last year - with all the rain - it finally filled up to the brim in one week. Don then updated his Craig's list For Sale advertisement as - waterfront property - and it sold the next week!
BTW. It was so dry at that dry cattle pond - our bird hunting suffered due to the lack of water. So we corrected that problem by putting gutters on the cabin there - installing a 1500 gallon water tank to collect the rainfall - and installing a water guzzler so all the wildlife could have a drink - every day - all year. And all kinds of wildlife are now using this added attraction - even with the nearby full cattle pond. Water is like gold in the desert!
Looks like more to come too...weather seems to be about twice as violent there than anywhere!! Hold onto Chupa!.I think Ben will be fine just a little uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteOcotillo,
How soon is that road crew coming?
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful picture.
ReplyDelete"In his hand are the deep places of the earth:
ReplyDeletethe strength of the hills is his also."
(Psalm 95:4)
we can use that rain here
ReplyDeletePsalms 147:8 (NIV)
ReplyDeleteThis might be a good time to dig back a little on the road. My dogs can dig well when the ground is damp. I keep forgetting that I have bags of dirt in the truck to fill in the holes but they like their holes.
ReplyDeleteB.B. Sutton ... Amen.
ReplyDeleteHeck - John Wells is going to have the non residents thinking it rains a lot on the Terlingua Ranch! With videos of rain damaged roads and photos of storm clouds moving across the area. Those things do happen - but not with a great frequency! The normal rainfall there - is only about 10 inches per year!
ReplyDeleteWe had a great little cattle pond - that remained almost bone dry for about 10 years! Then last year - with all the rain - it finally filled up to the brim in one week. Don then updated his Craig's list For Sale advertisement as - waterfront property - and it sold the next week!
BTW. It was so dry at that dry cattle pond - our bird hunting suffered due to the lack of water. So we corrected that problem by putting gutters on the cabin there - installing a 1500 gallon water tank to collect the rainfall - and installing a water guzzler so all the wildlife could have a drink - every day - all year. And all kinds of wildlife are now using this added attraction - even with the nearby full cattle pond. Water is like gold in the desert!
ReplyDeleteWarning John : http://grist.org/article/a-texas-size-flood-threatens-the-gulf-coast-and-were-so-not-ready/
ReplyDeleteNICE ARTICLE. THANKS for sharing!
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