"The Flies of Texas (Are Upon You)"

Di Atribe: basemetal: Yeah, it's real serious in this area. Worst heat and drought I've seen here, worse than any of the old timers have seen.

DFW set a record for highest minimum temperature last night. 84 degrees broke the record of 83 degrees set on August 8, 1947. We're also on track to break the record of 42 days in a row of triple digit heat on Friday that was set back in 1980 because of a volcano.

You're in Oklahoma, right? Have you gotten any rain at all? I don't think we've seen a rain cloud since May.

We got a nice summer shower just SW of OKC, so the temps stayed in the low 100's. While it was nice, it soaked in immediately and now it is 108 and as dry as ever. The ponds, lakes, and rivers are ask really low. The Canadian river South of Mustang is completely dry in many areas.

Laid to rest one of my tomato plants yesterday. It couldn't handle the heat anymore. :(

Didn't pray hard enough, morons

It's so hot here, I have to top up my pool every damme day!

God must be angry at Texas.

I've never seen so little rain in one year in Texas in all my 23 years of life.

basemetal: mikesup: The Canadian river South of Mustang is completely dry in many areas.

Yeah, it is over in the eastern part of 35 as well. It has allowed the wild pigs to cross at will, and they are tearing stuff up looking for water. Mmmmm, bacon.

muck4doo: Laid to rest one of my tomato plants yesterday. It couldn't handle the heat anymore. :(

The only good is that my peppers are either sweeter than normal, or hotter than hell in the summer, depending on the variety. I just ate a red cayenne off the plant and that puppy has some power compared to most years. Tomatoes.....yeah, just cherry tomatoes that wont ripen, everything else is toast..... oh, and I'm still getting okra.

My Tom that died was a Jersey Devil. It's been fail the whole season. No fruit in the spring, but got big. It just started wilting away and nothing stopped it. Chopped it this weekend. Letting the dirt dry some before i dig up the roots and see what they look like. The rest are still growing, and I'm still getting a few toms off of Garden Peach, Black Krim, Early Annie, Arkansas Traveler, and Marmande, although they all look like they won't be producing anymore till fall. My peppers all fruited by late June except the Habanero. They're all dead now. The habanero is still alive but hasn't given me anything.

Pray harder, boy!!

ultraholland: Pray harder, boy!!

You're talking about idiots. We should be able to sciencey away the drought away now.

If only Al Gore would have warned us...

muck4doo: We should be able to sciencey away the drought away now.

you like away?

ultraholland: muck4doo: We should be able to sciencey away the drought away now.

you like away?

Yes. "Drought away". I'd really appreciate it.

Dear Governor Perry,

You prayed for an answer from God.

And God answered. He said "FARK YOU!!"

I have to wonder, how much more drought must we suffer before we start to question if this is divine punishment for re-electing Perry?

God will provide....

/hehe

It's really sad that some of us have to live in these conditions. There seems to be such a gap b/w the way we, as Americans, view (or used to view) our country and the way it actually can be. Imagine telling those same residents back in 2001 that in ten years they would not have such a basic service as water.

AdolfOliverPanties: This cannot be true.

Rick Perry and a bunch of people prayed.

Here in Heathen Country (Coastal West Los Angeles), temps have been in the mid- to high 70s. Heck, I wore a long sleeve shirt to school today.

\Just rubbing it in.

Our entire yard is dead, the plants in the greenhouse are crispy and none of our trees even flowered this year. We couldn't afford to keep everything watered as much as it needed. Even our pepper plants didn't bear anything. That itself doesn't bother me. What scares me is that the soil from our lawn looks like it has absolutely no nutrients in it at all. I'm afraid the soil is barren and we'll never have grass in our yard again.

This looks like a bootstrappy Teabagger who would be to first the whine and shriek if they tried to increase the town's taxes to upgrade the water treatment plant.

/ hot
// just like Texas

Hey imagine that. In my state we pay taxes, and those taxes go towards fixing things. It's a radical concept that should be explained to these people.

muck4doo: basemetal: mikesup: The Canadian river South of Mustang is completely dry in many areas.

Yeah, it is over in the eastern part of 35 as well. It has allowed the wild pigs to cross at will, and they are tearing stuff up looking for water. Mmmmm, bacon.

muck4doo: Laid to rest one of my tomato plants yesterday. It couldn't handle the heat anymore. :(

The only good is that my peppers are either sweeter than normal, or hotter than hell in the summer, depending on the variety. I just ate a red cayenne off the plant and that puppy has some power compared to most years. Tomatoes.....yeah, just cherry tomatoes that wont ripen, everything else is toast..... oh, and I'm still getting okra.

My Tom that died was a Jersey Devil. It's been fail the whole season. No fruit in the spring, but got big. It just started wilting away and nothing stopped it. Chopped it this weekend. Letting the dirt dry some before i dig up the roots and see what they look like. The rest are still growing, and I'm still getting a few toms off of Garden Peach, Black Krim, Early Annie, Arkansas Traveler, and Marmande, although they all look like they won't be producing anymore till fall. My peppers all fruited by late June except the Habanero. They're all dead now. The habanero is still alive but hasn't given me anything.

That's crazy. And here in Atlanta I thought it was the heat this year that made my peppers so prolific. I can't give away enough hot bananas, jalapenos, cayenne, and poblanos. There are probably about 40 cayennes on one plant right now that I haven't picked because I don't know what the hell to do with them. It rains for about 30 minutes every other day here.

My Brandywine tomatoes are absolute toast though.

They should take all their guns and put them to good use by shooting at the clouds.

That'll teach 'em to not rain!

/also, Jebus obviously hates Texas

Jixa: Our entire yard is dead, the plants in the greenhouse are crispy and none of our trees even flowered this year. We couldn't afford to keep everything watered as much as it needed. Even our pepper plants didn't bear anything. That itself doesn't bother me. What scares me is that the soil from our lawn looks like it has absolutely no nutrients in it at all. I'm afraid the soil is barren and we'll never have grass in our yard again.

hehe, nice

/pretty much sums it up...

Sadly, not available for comment:



Though if he were available, I'm sure he'd have something to say on the long term viability of living in farking deserts.

AdolfOliverPanties: This cannot be true.

Rick Perry and a bunch of people prayed.

Things are looking up for the economy then:

http://www.businessinsider.com/prayerapalooza-photos-from-rick-perrys-rally-to -s ave-the-american-economy-2011-8

Jixa: Our entire yard is dead, the plants in the greenhouse are crispy and none of our trees even flowered this year. We couldn't afford to keep everything watered as much as it needed. Even our pepper plants didn't bear anything. That itself doesn't bother me. What scares me is that the soil from our lawn looks like it has absolutely no nutrients in it at all. I'm afraid the soil is barren and we'll never have grass in our yard again.

Pave it. PAVE IT ALL!!!

They're more than welcome to come to nice, cool California. I'm sure Texans would love the Bay Area, particularly the Mission District and Oakland.

/IN YOUR FACE TEXAS ( for once )
// We really only want your women, the blonde white ones, dumb and hot, mmm mmm mmm, our supply is all coked out

Jixa: Our entire yard is dead, the plants in the greenhouse are crispy and none of our trees even flowered this year. We couldn't afford to keep everything watered as much as it needed. Even our pepper plants didn't bear anything. That itself doesn't bother me. What scares me is that the soil from our lawn looks like it has absolutely no nutrients in it at all. I'm afraid the soil is barren and we'll never have grass in our yard again.

Who would have thought growing plants in the desert would be expensive/difficult?

Di Atribe: I don't think we've seen a rain cloud since May.

Here in California, we refer to that phenomena as "Summer". Somehow we and our massive, multiyear reservoirs of water manage to last until the rain returns in November. It must be because God loves us more.

Lipspinach: Jixa: Our entire yard is dead, the plants in the greenhouse are crispy and none of our trees even flowered this year. We couldn't afford to keep everything watered as much as it needed. Even our pepper plants didn't bear anything. That itself doesn't bother me. What scares me is that the soil from our lawn looks like it has absolutely no nutrients in it at all. I'm afraid the soil is barren and we'll never have grass in our yard again.

Pave it. PAVE IT ALL!!!

I'm contemplating replacing my backyard with 9 holes of miniature golf.

Fellow Americans openly mocking and taking pleasure in their countrymen suffering from (one of) the worst drought(s) in the state's history.

George Washington would be real proud of you guys.