You lie. Texas is hot and dry. Think tumbleweeds. That looks more like...florida.
Whoa! I had never considered that Don might be trying to scam us. Ya Think?
Let me think, lots of rain, gators, snake bites and swampy National Forest, hmmmm..........
------------------ Ron
Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture, his mental state but … after a shooting, the problem is the gun?
Definition of a home owner, "see the door threshold, without my permission, there and no futher.......
My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago. Since then he has voted Democrat. Shrug
Can't believe I missed it the first time. But Damn, that man has his own Ice Cream stand, He Cain't be all bad.
------------------ Ron
Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture, his mental state but … after a shooting, the problem is the gun?
Definition of a home owner, "see the door threshold, without my permission, there and no futher.......
My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago. Since then he has voted Democrat. Shrug
That's 3 where I went to school. And if you count the one in February, that's 4.
Yeah, but you and I went to school when they actually taught math. I remember when you built the place how it seemed so unlikely you'd ever need the stilts the building codes required you to build your house on. I'm glad you have them now.
Makes me think of this guy: I wonder if his levy survived long enough for the water to recede?
Yes still dry. Water from river flood has never yet gotten closer than 100' of my 1 acre yard. The March 11 2016 photo was taken from my back porch and is as close as it has ever come. To actually enter my house, water would have to rise more than the highest flood on record. Not saying it can't do so, but the geography and historical hydrography don't support it happening due to the relatively short length of the watershed above me and the (again) relatively small sq mile area of the upper watershed. Conceivably, flood water CAN easily inundate the lower couple ft of my shop, tho it never has in the 5 years it's been there. (I have had my yard mostly covered in water from local torrential rains, but only a few inches in depth and of short duration--45 minutes max, and it has all run off)
This is a fast rising and fast falling watershed. Crested last night at 20.8' and tonight, all the areas I posted pics of yesterday, are devoid of floodwater. I took this picture 45 minutes ago--yesterday, even early this morning, everything beyond the white oak tree would have been covered in water. It's always un-nerving to watch the water come across the pastures, and really quite strange when it happens overnight and you wake up in the morning and see a huge lake where 12 hrs before you were walking or spraying herbicide, but I have become somewhat accustomed to it.
One day tho, nature just might fool me......
This, is what really shook me up friday afternoon, in the midst of a 3 hr deluge that dropped about 8 inches of rain. It's a dry draw--an arroyo usually-- with twin 30" pipes under there where you see the white plastic drum. Excuse the bad pic, but I couldn't keep the windshield cleared off long enough to get a good shot with my phone. This is my primary access to and from my property. Every PFF'er that has ever been here has driven over this area. You can see both the width of the area covered and the depth, as well as the velocity that created the vertical plume of water as the flow hit a hard spot in what was the road. All I could think of was "how could I get Jane out of here?" Every other escape was already under water. When I drove back to the house and told her we were trapped, I was at tears. When a 5' area of pipe won't handle a local rain, you know you're in trouble. Fortunately, that particular storm cell passed on, the rain slowed down, the flow dropped back into the channel, and I was able to dump enough debris in the washout for us to get out just before dark.
Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture, his mental state but … after a shooting, the problem is the gun?
Definition of a home owner, "see the door threshold, without my permission, there and no futher.......
My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago. Since then he has voted Democrat. Shrug
When you flip a coin there is a 50% chance of it coming up tails. If you flip the coin 20 times, and get tails 20 times in a row, it's still a 50% chance of getting tails on the next flip.
When you flip a coin there is a 50% chance of it coming up tails. If you flip the coin 20 times, and get tails 20 times in a row, it's still a 50% chance of getting tails on the next flip.
Brad
50%?
(I always wondered about that when the weather guy says "50% chance of rain tomorrow" anyway. Does that mean 50 % of the viewing area is going to get wet? 50% of the viewing area has a 50% chance of getting wet? 50% of the viewing area has a chance of it raining for 50% of the day. All the viewing area is going to get wet for 1/2 of the day? 1/2 the viewing area gets wet for 1/2 the day and the other 1/2 gets wet for the next 12 hours? Which part of the area and which hours of the day? ??????
Just had an idea.......put a heli-pad AND a live-fire range right beside the house. Wont make the genny any quieter, but I'm pretty sure you wont hear it anymore.
(I always wondered about that when the weather guy says "50% chance of rain tomorrow" anyway. Does that mean 50 % of the viewing area is going to get wet? 50% of the viewing area has a 50% chance of getting wet? 50% of the viewing area has a chance of it raining for 50% of the day. All the viewing area is going to get wet for 1/2 of the day? 1/2 the viewing area gets wet for 1/2 the day and the other 1/2 gets wet for the next 12 hours? Which part of the area and which hours of the day? ??????
It means he's hedging his bets. 50% means he's going to be right at least half the time.
Brad
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When you flip a coin there is a 50% chance of it coming up tails. If you flip the coin 20 times, and get tails 20 times in a row, it's still a 50% chance of getting tails on the next flip.
Just to put things in perspective, I took another wide angle shot yesterday, from about the same location I took the one on May 28. The May 28 shot: (see the dark green 'bush' in the water on the left?
The same bush is fully visible here--it's actually a little cedar growing on the side of my wing dam.
Don, I was thinking of trying to buy your place. It's a perfect place to start my next project.
But, you've already cut down all the frigg'n trees. I'm going to need a bunch of lumber.
Ya can't build an Ark without quite a few trees ya know.
------------------ Ron
Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture, his mental state but … after a shooting, the problem is the gun?
Definition of a home owner, "see the door threshold, without my permission, there and no futher.......
My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago. Since then he has voted Democrat. Shrug
