This is our first summer at the house NW of FTW, our back yard is a little more than a half acre and we haven't made any improvements to the back half so it's kind of a wasteland. Trailers parked out there, rock pile, and the sprinkler for the aerobic system.
Yesterday a little late in the evening we were cleaning up out there and I notice these huge cracks in the soil, I got a tape measure to see how far they went down and to my astonishment most were well over a foot deep a few over 2 feet deep and one went down 38 inches, unbelievable.
In one of the larger cracks we put a hose in and started running water, I watched for several minutes and nothing, I guessed it would bubble up by then. So we left the water on and came back out a couple of times and nothing. The last time was at a half hour and no signs of any water I would guess we put 75 to a 100 halons of water in there, it's an abyss.
We are now in second place for hottest summer of all time and less than 2 weeks from being the hottest of all time.
