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Do you have containers to catch any rain should a tropical system come 
your way?



Sage Austin | Eureka! Design wrote:
> Thanks for asking Rob.
>
> It's terrible here. We've had nearly 3 months of temps between 103-110. 
> Most days it's been around 106, with high humidity (39-70% and we're 
> used to 11-22%) yet it won't rain. We've lost a lot of fruit trees and 
> shrubs and half our lawn, plus a chicken to heat exhaustion. This is the 
> hottest, driest 24 months on record since 1885 when record keeping began 
> for our area and much of the Hill Country, including Austin and San Antonio.
>
> Our well is entirely dry. I am able to straddle the Frio River. Here's 
> some pics of both and stories on my blog:
>
> http://flowerweaver.blogspot.com/2009/08/standing-on-both-banks-and-when-well.html
> http://flowerweaver.blogspot.com/2009/08/send-rain.html
> http://flowerweaver.blogspot.com/2009/08/water-canto.html
>
> Old timers say our well has never gone dry, even in the 1953 drought 
> which Elmer Kelton wrote about in his novel "The Year It Never Rained" 
> set in a fictitious town near here. They all agree this is the worst 
> they recall. Most of our neighbor's wells went dry a month before ours. 
> Our closest neighbor just spent $15,000 to drill a 790 foot well. We 
> don't have the money to drill another right now, and there's a 3 week 
> wait if we did. The neighbors have kindly passed a hose through the 
> fence and we are trying to make do with that. I water the gardens in the 
> morning, and haul 5 gallon buckets to the house for flushing toilets, 
> cleaning, hand washing our clothes, watering the animals all afternoon. 
> My husband just finished building an outdoor shower. Watering has become 
> my new full time job.
>
> Today was the first day we did not break 100, it was only 97 and that, 
> sadly, felt good. Fall usually doesn't get here until October. Unless a 
> hurricane gets into the gulf, I don't know if we'll get rain. 
> Considering I've been through the 2002 and 2004 "500 year" floods where 
> I saw 29 inches of rain in a day, this is so weird. It's either feast or 
> famine.
>
> --Sage
>
>
>
> Robert Walton wrote:
> > > --Sage
> > > Way Out in Texas with a Bone Dry Well
> > >
> > >     
> > I'd been wondering after I was reading about the drought in Texas. How are
> > you faring?
> >
> > Rob - Va
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