Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Training thunderstorms for four hours now

Started around midnight, frogging dogs have been keeping me awake.

San Antonio floods at the drop of a hat, the morning commute is likely to be a mess.

Maybe the front stalled out I dunno.

The heavy stuff is all heading North just East of Austin, as usual.

The rain is always welcomed here. Glad to be getting it

Dealing with that chit right now, hunting quackers.

Creeping this way. This hole in the earth floods very easily.

They say it takes a flood to end a drought.

This is going into the 3rd year of severe drought. Hopefully it will quench the land.

It doesn't take much when you're at the bottom of the drain!!!

We are at or over 10 inches now since Monday. And supposed to rain until tonight around 2am. Pouring right now again.

I’ve never seen a pic of the Watershed before. Can you imagine how many sewer plants dump the so called(TREATED) water into the river. By the time the water gets to the gulf it’s probably 90 per cent sewer water. There is no way I’d eat a fish out of the river. Every town has a sewer plant!

Come on. You are a plumber. You know how sewer water is treated. Its not a big deal.At all. Now a stagnant lake. Thats NOT where you want to eat a fish from. Running water is the key to quality in fish.

Not to mention you drink sewer water all the time anyway. You just don't realize it. There is no more or less water on the planet. Its all recycled

Not many know that the top of the drain begins in Montana, at a lonely place called the Centennial Valley. The furthest source of the Missouri river is a tiny spring on the flanks of Mt Jefferson that create Hellroaring Creek. A drop of water from this spring may make its way down to Red Rock creek, to the Red Rock river, to the Beaverhead, the Jefferson, the Missouri, and finally the Mississippi to New Orleans.

We’re going to get it in a few hours. I think they’re calling for 3-5”.

Had one hell of a lightning storm here on the coast this morning.

Good hard and loud rain here Mike. I was wrapped in bed by two pups. Our catchment tank welcomed it.

We had some good rain here in about '88 IIRC. Sucker rained for 10 straight days. I guess we got our portion for the next 30 years or so.
JG told me there just aren't any big horns in the desert prairie west of Andrew's any more. No quail for 3 years. No water in palaya lakes.

Pecos is dry in places west of Mentone. Some water for a few miles below Red Bluff Lake where NM was forced legally to release water for Texas allotment for farmers. Water was high west of Mentone for a couple of weeks till it was cut off and soaked down into the underground aquifer.

I’ve read a quote that said by volume the Mississippi has been through seven water recycling ( the politically correct term for sewage treatment) plants by the time it reached the gulf.

I’m familiar with the process and the outflow doesn’t worry me. It is unavoidably high in nitrates and phosphates but that is prob’ly dwarfed by fertilizer runoff, creating that dead zone largely devoid of fish in the Gulf of Mexico.

Microplastics and the various carcinogenic chemicals and hormone mimics sewage treatment doesn’t address worry me far more.

See this? This is the Continental Divide in Yellowstone. Rumor has it that if a guy pees behind that sign, half will end up in the Pacific and half in the Gulf of Mexico. I would never do such a thing of course, especially in the evening with no one else around, but I hear if one does that it’s really easy to bias the result



…and hey, I’m still grateful for you going above and beyond on your own initiative bringing me that down bag the day before, I woulda froze my nuts off otherwise 🙂

No worries Mike glad I could help out. We gotta take care of our own you know! I’ll bet that was one hell of a voyage you pulled off that summer. No way I coulda done that! How many miles?

This is my kind of weather. It has been going for three days & counting in the Houston metroplex. Love it!!

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