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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] No Drought in Okalhoa!
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:27:46 -0600


We're also the exception here in NM, like you in OK. We had double the
snowfall this winter and early monsoon in May. Normal is 10" annual,
semi-desert. The west and southeast are broad areas with exceptions. But
the report is accurate based on all the data.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/27/2007 at 1:05 PM Neil Inman wrote:

>NE Oklahoma is 10-20 inches ahead of average rainfalls for the month
>right
>now. Its so squishy here that tomato plants are wilting and threatening to

>be lost to the wetness.
>
>We actually considered digging a pond in the west pasture due to being
>able
>to dig down two feet and have the hole fill with water within minutes.
>
>We had a huge ice (ie more rain) in January w/ no electric for 10 days at
>my
>house.
>
>Had another freeze the first week in April that killed the first garden
>
>Have heard it said last year was the complete opposite extreme and I think

>THAT is the remarkable thing....the extremes.
>
>Id have agreed with this article LAST YEAR and we MAY have more draught
>later this summer, but Im not sure what they are basing this line of
>thinking on right now. It just aint so!
>
>RE: Message: 8
>>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:29:22 -0600
>>From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>>Subject: [Livingontheland] The wrath of 2007: America's great drought
>>
>>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2643033.ece
>>The wrath of 2007: America's great drought
>>Independent.co.uk (June 11 2007)
>>by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
>







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