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Britcheflee

11-09-2007 08:28:49




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Here in N CA we have not had any rain to speak of for months - I work close to Folsom Lake which is now a puddle and have noticed many of the lakes and reseviors in the area are incredibly low.

If we do not have a good wet winter next year we are going to be in big big trouble - I read that over 60% of the USA is now classified as being in a drought situation. How are things where you live and do you think we are going to have to go through the dust bowl years again - which, if I have my American History correct, co-incided with a drop on Wall street and a depression/recession which lasted years.

Lee

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Marty 2N IL

11-10-2007 07:10:08




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 Re: Drought? in reply to Britcheflee, 11-09-2007 08:28:49  
Same here in Illinois, just east of St Louis MO. Lakes are mud holes not a drop of rain. Trees are dying no colors to speak of this fall. I have a nice blue sruce in my front yard I decorate for Christmass it looks so bad I won't put lights on it this year. We need rain bad, two weeks of solid soaking rain might settle the dust.



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Britcheflee

11-10-2007 06:47:12




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 Re: Drought? in reply to GB in MT., 11-09-2007 08:28:49  

john hunt said: (quoted from post at 21:10:05 11/09/07) hey lee
know where coming from i live north from you.. i have lake oroville at one side of me and bullard bar on other side of me both of them about 45 to 50 percent full and collin lake show 5 island and almost walk across it without get your feet wet
i be down in you back wood ROSEVILLE FAIRGOUND SATUARDAY they have a train show there then to the old town folsom where they make dog treat and see the bear at folsom zoo ... and check out the train shop in old town of folsom


I stopped by that Bullards Bar Dam just a month or so ago - whew!!! Not good if you are scared of heights like methird party image Its like a mini Hoover Dam - a very nice area out there and in fact I took a picture of an 8N parked by the side of the road - it was painted a light color.

I did not know there was a train shop in Folsom - Ill take my lad down there to have a look as he likes trains.

Lee

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OKDAD

11-09-2007 21:28:24




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 Re: Drought? in reply to Bob, 11-09-2007 08:28:49  
Well Lee I guess there is some irony here from "Dust Bowl" country as we have had record rainfall this year in OK. Lake Texhoma was the second highest it has ever been. They were letting water out as fast as they could.

We were very dry last year with many grassfires. This year flooding!

Hang in there because the rain will return.

Ike



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john hunt

11-09-2007 20:10:05




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 Re: Drought? in reply to Britcheflee, 11-09-2007 08:28:49  
hey lee know where coming from i live north from you.. i have lake oroville at one side of me and bullard bar on other side of me both of them about 45 to 50 percent full and collin lake show 5 island and almost walk across it without get your feet wet i be down in you back wood ROSEVILLE FAIRGOUND SATUARDAY they have a train show there then to the old town folsom where they make dog treat and see the bear at folsom zoo ... and check out the train shop in old town of folsom

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Stockdale Dave

11-09-2007 17:21:26




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 Re: Drought? in reply to Britcheflee, 11-09-2007 08:28:49  
Bruce captured that historical era in a nutshell. One of the bizarre occurences was the after Sunday Church meetings where town folk clubbed all the rabbits as "they were the cause of the wheat decline." In reality most of the prarie jack rabbits kept the locusts and bugs in check and without the predator rabbits in the environment the people were also over run by locusts in addition to choking dust storms.

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Bruce (VA)

11-09-2007 11:03:30




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 Re: Drought? in reply to Britcheflee, 11-09-2007 08:28:49  
Lots of books have been written about the Great Depression, Wall Street & the Dust Bowl, but the fact that all three happened in the 1930's is coincidental. At the risk of a major over simplification, the US had periodic depressions (Panics, they called them) over the years & recovered. It didn't happen in 1929 for a couple of major reasons; conditions in Europe after WWI being one, gold reserves & the tariff being another. The Dust Bowl occurred because of greedy real estate types & a periodic upswing in commodity prices during WWI. Folks moved to KN & the mid-west by the tens of thousands to 'get rich quick' as wheat farmers. No different than the 1849 Gold Rush. They plowed under the natural grasses to plant wheat; that worked just fine until the first fall that the wheat didn't come up because of a drought. As normally occurred every 6 - 10 years. No cover crop & wind conditions did the rest.

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