(Boy, now doesn’t that give you relief – when the NYT [or Wall Street] report our Texas drought is officially over!!! Maybe they think the Wall St. bailout helped Texas ranchers and farmers? Gulp – someone(s) have not seriously studied long-term Southwestern droughts – I remember a decent year or two during the 50′s I believe – [...]
Drought losses top $19 million in Lower Rio Grande Valley Reservoir levels are healthy but wet winter not forecast November 13, 2009 TAMU AG News Writer(s): Rod Santa Ana, 956-878-8317,r-santaana@tamu.edu Contact(s):Dr. Luis Ribera, 956-968-5581, LARibera@ag.tamu.edu WESLACO — For the second year in a row, Mother Nature has dealt a heavy blow to agricultural producers in [...]
(Note: has the extreme two year drought affecting mostly south and central Texas ended? Much of the region has had good rains in September and October – but has that ENDED this drought? We do not know yet, but pray it has………. time will tell. Be careful of your water resources in the meantime – [...]
Beautiful Lake Travis just west of Austin was hard hit by the recent/current drouth, dropping some 40 or so feet. But now, after two weeks of rain, sometimes torrential, the lake is on the rise, according to a Oct. 29 news article in the Austin American-Statesman by Mike Leggett. According toTexas Parks and Wildlife biologist [...]
This hurricane season has been dead quiet. I wonder how that sits with the AGW (Anthropocentric Global Warming) theory supporters? Remember 2005? All the big hurricanes hitting the Gulf states were due to global warming, according to a lot of the theory’s loudest proponents. And hurricanes would just get worse and worse each year they [...]
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