Yep, I"m with ya. We welcomed yesterday's and last night's storms. Our
lawn was turning brown, I had to keep watering the plants in our courtyard,
and I had to top off the pond twice in the past 10 days due to evaporation
from the heat.
There's quite a bit of irrigation rigging around here as well.
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Christopher Crawford <
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not in NE Indiana. My grass is brown and half dead. Last year wasn¹t bad,
> but the three years before that were like this year. Since moving back to
> Indiana in 2007, We have had several drought years here.
>
> Today finally rained, the first rain in a month in Ft. Wayne.
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> On 8/13/16, 7:14 AM, "olympus on behalf of Chuck Norcutt"
> <olympus-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf
> of chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >The historical data says exactly the opposite for the Mid-West for
> >precipitation and drought. An irrigation system can smooth out the
> >natural variations but from a climate standpoint rainfall and drought
> >have actually improved somewhat over the past 100 years in the Mid-West.
> ><http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/mw_climate/climateChange.jsp>
> >
> >Chuck Norcutt (data driven)
> >
> >
> >On 8/12/2016 6:54 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
> >> I've seen more and more farmers in northern Indiana using irrigation
> >>systems
> >> to water their fields in recent years. This part of the United States
> >>used
> >> to get a lot more rain in the summer than it does today.
> >>
> >> This field is in Elkhart County, just outside Goshen, Indiana.
> >>
> >> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2455
> >>
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