Rain in MS

Central MS has been very short on rain. Up to today, we are more than
20" short for the year. Our acre pond/lake has gone from 4'.5' to
less than 3' deep. That is serious when the herons visit! At 4' they
get very little. At 3' they do better. At 2' they can wade anywhere
and will strip the pond. Our 500 game fish and thousands of flathead
minnows would simply vanish!

It is raining solidly today! We will get more than an inch of rain if
it keeps up. Could even be 2". The pond collects 4-8" per inch that
falls...depending how wet the ground is before the rain. I suspect we
will see an increase of 4 or more inches from this rain. That is a
serious help. I will go out to check the depth in a day or two.

Rain, rain, come and stay. Drop some more on us today!

Jim



Phyllis and Jim

The rain continues. We may get out to the acre pond later today...if
the rain stops! Just now it is pouring!

Jim

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:31:26 CST, Phyllis and Jim
<> wrote:

>Central MS has been very short on rain. Up to today, we are more than
>20" short for the year. Our acre pond/lake has gone from 4'.5' to
>less than 3' deep. That is serious when the herons visit! At 4' they
>get very little. At 3' they do better. At 2' they can wade anywhere
>and will strip the pond. Our 500 game fish and thousands of flathead
>minnows would simply vanish!
>
>It is raining solidly today! We will get more than an inch of rain if
>it keeps up. Could even be 2". The pond collects 4-8" per inch that
>falls...depending how wet the ground is before the rain. I suspect we
>will see an increase of 4 or more inches from this rain. That is a
>serious help. I will go out to check the depth in a day or two.
>
>Rain, rain, come and stay. Drop some more on us today!

No rain here. We got about 5 inches in June, below average, but as we
are heading into the "wet season" here in northern Florida I thought
things would improve. Alas, we got what little rain that came down
early in June, and we haven't had any since. I'm having to run my
garden hose 24/7 into the pond, and only have about 2 feet of water
left in the deepest sections. I don't have any fish, but if this
keeps up I won't have a pond either.
--
Galen Hekhuis
We'll cross that bridge when it rears its ugly head

The rains have come in force here in central MS. Maybe the Texas
rains have come to visit.

Our pond is now up by 9" since last Thursday! The ground is saturated
and steady rains of varied intensity have run from above the pond into
it. It is in a 'Y' between two hills and catched the run-off from a
bunch of acres of land. If it goes up by another 5 or so inches, it
will be where it was this spring. It is new (built last summer) and
has never been full. It came within 15" of being full. Now it is
approaching that again. The big issue will be the dry MS summer in
August and September, before the fall rains. It needs to saty more
than 3' deep or the herons will clean us out. This gives hope...and
the rains are still scheduled next week!

Our 2" brim and bass are now up to 5". They get fed daily by a feeder
and the bass are eating the flathead minnows we put in. Those will
all be gone within 2 years.

Jim

Gracious! We get 7" of rain a year!

Hope the pond gets nice and full while it
can.

k :-)

For what it is worth, the pond is now at 18 inches below full instead
of the 31 where it bottomed out. The basic pond is now 4.5 to 5 '
deep. This is as full as it got over the winter (It was new and empty
a year ago). The fish will make it til fall even if we have no more
rain!

Jim