[golfandhunter]

Hey all you Texan's, sorry about the flooding but has the rain restored your lake or pond water levels?
Just curious, we had a similar situation in Ga. 2 years ago.

 

[EdA]

The drought in many parts of Texas is officially over as most reservoirs in North and East Texas are over capacity. D/FW's rainfall total for 2015 of 22 inches exceeds our total rainfall for 2014. The ground is saturated with water standing in the fields and no one has been able to cut hay so the grass is so tall that training is difficult. We are fortunate to get the rain but it needs to stop for awhile but with a strong El Niño pattern developing we are in for a wet spell well into 2016.

 

[Wayne Nutt]

Our duck hunting lake rose 18' since the end of last season. The land owner where I train reports all the ponds are full and some overflowing. I haven't been out in quite a spell due to it being so muddy.

We went to train yesterday at an alternate spot. The park gates were locked due to flooding, I guess.
We found a field but the grass and weeds were knee deep and in some places chest high. Did some very short marks but would loose site of dogs.

I'm not sure I can even get to Ackerman's training area due to road flooding.

I have been doing water work on the ponds in our development, playgrounds and backyard. It's tough.

 

[Tony Marshall]

http://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/statewide

Everything I own is covered in mud.

 

[swliszka]

I had posted this on POTUS some time ago (water wars) but if you want to know about all regions of the country down to counties ..try this site...updated weekly

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

 

[M&K's Retrievers]

Thinking about training on a high school paring lot. This muck and tall grass is a mess. Give us a few months and we will be bitching about the lack of water again.

 

[Migillicutty]

Same as above. All our ponds are over capacity and spilling out. Can't cut hay because it is too wet. With 10k acres of grounds we can hardly find a spot to get in to where we won't get stuck and the cover is so thick and high setting up where dogs are actually visible is challenging. We have acreage (I'm talking in the hundreds of acres) that have feet, not inches but feet of standing water that I have never even seen sheet water on.

Wayne, Ackermans is really soft. The ground is so saturated that it needs abt 48 hours of no rain to maneuver around in without cutting ruts all over his place. I truly hope people are reapectful of that when they go out there. His water is as high as it can get and is pouring out of the spillways.

 

[golfandhunter]

I hate it that you have the mud, but it sounds like the water was much needed.
We have just begun to cut grass here in Ga. as well, all the guys that cut are way behind due to rain.

Trained today at the Didier Day Farms and we had partial cut grass, it was breezy with low humidity, very nice day.
Maybe Glen will post some pics of the marks and one tough ass blind!!!

 

[Wayne Nutt]

It pretty much rained on and off all night. No break in the rain in sight. I guess we're all in the same boat (no pun intended) around here.

 

[Ironbark]

Boy could we use some of that rain in California

 

[EdA]

Lake Texoma is a large lake on the Red River on the Texas Oklahoma border, conservation pool level is 618, it is over 642 and rising and is now over the spillway for only the 4th time since 1944.

 

[Raymond Little]

Weather channel said San Marcos river rose 33' in 3 hours! This front is moving slow and dumping mucho rain. I have been waiting on it for the last 4 hours and still not here.

 

[Billie]

Boy could we use some of that rain in California

Yes... we cant buy a drop of rain out here... C'mon that promised El Nino...

 

[M&K's Retrievers]

Lake Texoma is a large lake on the Red River on the Texas Oklahoma border, conservation pool level is 618, it is over 642 and rising and is now over the spillway for only the 4th time since 1944.

It is an impressive sight to see when the gates are open, the ground is shaking. Even a more impressive sight from an air boat below the dam.

 

[Clint Watts]

Can you all send some of that my way?

 

[EdA]

Can you all send some of that my way?

I wish that we could because from now for awhile it will all end up in the Gulf of Mexico because there is no where else for it to go.

 

[Mary Lynn Metras]

It pretty much rained on and off all night. No break in the rain in sight. I guess we're all in the same boat (no pun intended) around here.

We could use rain here even though we are clay soil and lower levels are wet but I can see we are drier than usual in this area. How do I tell-my basement hasn't got water in it & I am watering the garden? Usually we have too much rain at this time of year. I am hoping we get some this week.

 

[1tulip]

Boy could we use some of that rain in California

You got that right!!!

 

[1tulip]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...ntists-now-predicting-100-chance-of-strong-wet-el-nino-in-california-this-year/


On Thursday, scientists at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) said chances for El Nino this summer are close to 100 percent, with simulations suggesting by December, it could exceed the devastating 1997-1998 event that brought widespread flooding and hurricane-force winds to most of California.

We need a "Donner Party" winter in the Sierras this winter.

 

[fishin444]

I'd like to move there but I can't swim. My dogs do though.