Aug 20, 2007 08:37 am Here in S. Mich we are much like you. Getting a lot of much needed rain. I'll chime in too with my regrets for those who are getting beat up.
Be careful what you ask for...
Posted on Aug 20, 2007 08:08 am
dbmasters
Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002
It's been a pretty serious drought in Minnesota this year...been praying for rain for a while...
Well...we got it...6 people have died, flash flooding has destroyed a few southern MN towns...places down there had up to 8 inches in a 24 hour period...
Nothing like that where Noize and I live, but damn, rain all weekend, it was awesome here, I feel really bad for a lot of the farmers and small town families down south though.
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Aug 20, 2007 08:37 am Here in S. Mich we are much like you. Getting a lot of much needed rain. I'll chime in too with my regrets for those who are getting beat up.
Aug 20, 2007 03:32 pm i'm back home in montana... where most of my surrounding area (Kalispell) is pretty much in flames due to deforestation being nearly completely mitigated and excess fuel and no roads.
70,000+ acres aflame. No rain. But we got the tiniest sprinkle yesterday and we're supposed to get more tonight/tomorrow. Very happy about that.
Aug 20, 2007 03:45 pm Sometimes those small sprinkles of rain can be a problem as the lightning causes more flare ups and the rain doesn't amount to much help putting out existing fires.
We have quite a few fires burning around here right now. Not as bad as some years but every year we get a least a few really large fires.
Aug 20, 2007 06:13 pm Yep, even a couple of roads got closed up here now. Just small side roads, but they are under water now. The beans may come back as they can go without water for awhile, but the corn up here for the most part, especially the farms without irrigation are suffering a huge loss.
But indeed, the rain has been nice to have. It can take a day off now and let a little sunshine in now though.
Aug 20, 2007 10:12 pm Heh, the roads were closed before the fires showed up. "roadless initiative" is what it was called by the folks from out of state who funded it. All it did was keep the forest service from accessing fires as fast as they needed to when they started.
Sorry, I'm really bitter about this. I see all this timber going up in smoke, the state spending millions of dollars trying to put out the fires that are burning hotter and faster than they ever would have been had the loggers who know a HELL of a lot more about managing forest than the aformentioned folks funding the "roadless initiative" (among other things which I'll refrain from mentioning) been able to get rid of the dead timber 10 years ago.
Today was the first day I actually saw real clouds instead of the smokey haze that's been around since last Wednesday when I got back to Montana.
Aug 21, 2007 11:58 am We're having the same problem here with the 'Zaca' fire (221,000 acres right now). No rain, lots of dry timber to feed it, and no roads to get the crews in there. The bombers/drop helicopters can only do so much. They've chosen a small town near here as their 'Alamo' - as there a sufficient roads there to get the engines in. The Los Padres National Forest is basically a no-go area right now.
Aug 21, 2007 12:46 pm Well, we had another string of rain dissolve before getting to us, which is good for those southern communities that are flooding...might get more tonight tho...
Aug 21, 2007 05:01 pm Global Warmi.......
Just kidding dB-Wan, just kidding......
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