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The last real area wide flood we had was December of 91. We've had floods since then, and most of southern Travis county in the onion creek watershed washed away last spring. But 1991 was the last real area wide El Ni�o inspired incident!

So we are due. We hope.

Jeff, I hope so!

We had a "100 year flood" in 2006, with the Sabine River cresting 28' out of it's banks. Nine counties were declared disaster areas. It didn't help this drought at all. Weve gotten rain the last two years and things are green, but all the ponds are still dry, or low.

The topography of California has raised more than 1/2 inch in past years because of so much groundwater taken out of the ground.

I'd think it would have dropped but the scientist tracking it described like taking a weight off something being held down.

62 trillion gallons of water consumed/lost since the drought conditions began - Enough to cover the western part of the United States in 4 inches of water.

Maybe we can hold the place down by importing more from Mexico. For sure we should fund more welfare payments for more kids.

Lt. Pat,
wasn't that 2009? I do know Logansport's sheriff office got flooded and had to shut down for several months, I lost a camper and 4wheeler in that deal. Then we had a 2 year drought.
Doug

Houston and Galveston get a lot of rain

Hope it gets better for you folks

T

Pretty sure it was the year after Hurricane Rita.

Looked it up, 34.37ft (Logansport) on 10/31/2009

Shoulda known you were right.

Doug

Nope. You're right. The year after Ike, not Rita. I wish we'd get another like that...my duck pond has pine trees 10' tall growing in it.

we've had good rain at the lease and my brothers place this past yr, both are green and have water in the tanks.

That's good to hear Rog. We've had a lot of light rains, so everything is green. We've just don't have any ground water. The lakes and ponds that aren't fed by live water are dry.

We finally filled all the ponds up this year. But they are all down again but only a "normal" down for summer.

It was 2010 the last time the ponds were full...

It was green here, now its corn flakes dry when you walk and brown.

20 acre grass fire that almost caught a number of commercial businesses on fire a week or so ago enacted our burn ban again thankfully.

In this N.Texas area, the drouth started in 2008 and there has not been any runoff water to speak of since 2007. In that respect, this matches the drouth of the 'fifties. Hopefully, this one ends in the 8th year, like that one.

Back then, people didn't use nearly as much water and there weren't nearly as many people, so it's hard to make a valid comparison-- statistics when considering drouths are awfully misleading.

One problem around here is that so many folks buy 10 acre "ranches" and build two stock tanks. It takes about a hard 4 inch rain just to get to the point where the big creeks and rivers get any water.

And 4 inch rains have been damn scarce the last 7 years.