It is totally unbelievable this year. After years of drought we are getting so much rain the country can't use it. It's all running off. Billings didn't get that much but the creeks around it are flooding from the greater amounts upcountry. Over 4 inches in the Pryors.
We got around 2-3 inches around here and the water is flowing down country. I don't have any good pictures because I am so high on the drainages that there isn't enough time for water to gather and run. Karen has a couple of good pictures of water running in her country though.
The storm was a pretty big one and covered a lot of country. Cody had some street flooding and other Wyoming communities got hit hard too.
Lame Deer school flooded and they are also worried about the Tongue River flooding with all the water that poured out of the sky in this country.
It's really hard to describe how I feel about all of this. We've had so many dry years that I hate to complain about the moisture, but isn't it enough. We don't need to make up for ten years of drought in a couple of months. It would be really nice to spread this over a little more time. Then I look at all the wonderful grass that is growing and all I can think about is the fire danger it will become if it turns hot and dry. I should be seeing fat cows and calves grazing on all the grass but I just can't. I guess the pessimist in me is taking over. I can't see the good side.
Let's see, the good side. Enough water to fill the reservoirs, but the only reservoir I rely on washed out this spring and I haven't gotten it fixed yet. Lots of green grass, but lots of fuel to catch fire and burn the country up. Lots of hay, but the fields are so muddy it will be forever before I can get into them to cut it and it will be too ripe then. Heavy calves come fall, but I'm sure the market will be down and they won't be worth anything.
Yep, the good side of things. I can't wait for the other shoe to fall.
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. St. Jerome
Tuesday, January 3. 2006
Weather
I've been complaining about the unusually warm temperatures we have been having the past couple of weeks and while I stand by my complaints, it could be worse. Look at what is going on in the weather all over our country.
We have excessive rain and flooding in northern California, severe drought and out of control fires burning up Texas and Oklahoma, and while not in the country, Tropical Storm Zeta is running around the Atlantic. It's just unbelievable. I don't think there is any "normal" in the weather anymore. It just does what it wants.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window. Tom Lehrer
We have excessive rain and flooding in northern California, severe drought and out of control fires burning up Texas and Oklahoma, and while not in the country, Tropical Storm Zeta is running around the Atlantic. It's just unbelievable. I don't think there is any "normal" in the weather anymore. It just does what it wants.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window. Tom Lehrer
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