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Post by amyinowasso on May 26, 2024 11:42:12 GMT -6
It was an ugly night here. We watched a storm with Travis Meyers from west of Skiatook all the way to Arkansas. It was running along hwy 20 which is 4 miles north of me. Did damage in Claremore, prior and Salina and maybe Arkansas, I haven't seen anything on Arkansas today. We lost power briefly from gusting winds, but really it was eerily quiet here for the most part. There were storms building near Talhaquah when I went to bed. I hope you all are safe.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 26, 2024 14:44:15 GMT -6
Amyinowasso,
I'm certainly glad to hear you guys are safe.
We had a fairly uneventful night here. Since we've had no television in our home since 2004, I was unaware of any tornadic activity in the State until I heard about the Claremore tornado this morning at Church. Since then, I've been online, looking for weather reports, and saw that there were several lives lost across Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
That was terrible news! I'm still trying to catch up, not knowing the path of the storms yet.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 27, 2024 16:05:53 GMT -6
I just now read of the record heat in Texas today, May 27, 2024. I'll bet that situation is terrible after all the rain lately.
Record heat near the Gulf on Memorial Day: Del Rio, Texas, hit a record 112 degrees, while Abilene, Texas, tied its record of 102 degrees. An ABC News graphic shows the weather forecast for Memorial Day, May 27, 2024.
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Post by woodeye on May 27, 2024 19:26:56 GMT -6
Yikes! That's a scorcher...😲
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Post by woodeye on Jun 3, 2024 15:41:43 GMT -6
It won't be long until about all my garden is good for is growing cactus, but right now it's suited well for growing water lilies. There was a 15% chance here for showers just about every day this week, but it has increased a bit now. It rained 2.35 inches here last night and this morning, however the sun is shining right now & looking good. Hopefully the cowpea seeds that I planted 2 days ago didn't wash away, but if they did I have lots more seeds where those came from...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 3, 2024 16:28:42 GMT -6
That was a great report, Woodeye! I'm sure glad to here you guys got some much-needed rain up that way!
We had about a 20% chance of rain here today, but at about 1:00 p.m. the whole sky over the City of Tahlequah just busted loose. It rained so hard that the wipers on the truck couldn't keep up, so I had to pull off the road and wait it out. It rained hard like that for a good 10 minutes.
I just got back home from seeing the foot doctor again this afternoon. He said the bone in my ankle has already knitted back together and gave me a very good prognosis, as far as any damage becoming permanent. It's down right amazing how God made our bodies to heal.
I haven't been out to check our rain gauge yet, but Margaret said it rained so hard here that it sounded like it was going to beat the shingles off the house while I was gone.
(Hopefully, many millions of grasshoppers perished in the downpour).
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Post by woodeye on Jun 4, 2024 13:15:16 GMT -6
My cowpeas survived the rains thanks to berms & swales & raised row technology. There will be some replanting to do on the cowpeas and sweet potato slips, but it's not because of heavy rains, it's because sometimes stuff just happens, or sometimes stuff just doesn't happen. Ninety one percent of my okra hills came up and are looking good, so even though I'm probably a bit late with getting everything started this year, it looks promising as of today...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 5, 2024 1:01:39 GMT -6
Oh Wow! That rainstorm that suddenly formed over the entire mid-region of the State of Oklahoma at about 1:00 a.m. this morning sure is bringing a lot of good rain, fast! Just the way I like it when I still have millions upon millions of grasshoppers to kill!
They apparently were undaunted by any of our previous rains, but these heavy nighttime rains have got to be rough on them, being how they're on the roost until sunup.
God, knows what he's doing out there!
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Post by FrostyTurnip on Jun 5, 2024 17:46:18 GMT -6
woodeye I’m glad those swales are working out for ya.
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Post by woodeye on Jun 5, 2024 20:30:09 GMT -6
I'm tellin' ya', FrostyTurnip, your suggestion last year to use berms and swales out at the Iron Curtain©® has saved an untold amount of soil from washing away from my garden...Many thanks...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 5, 2024 20:37:35 GMT -6
Hank and I drove out to the garden today to check the progress of the okra and saw that so far, the grasshoppers have been undaunted by the heavy rains.
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Post by woodeye on Jun 6, 2024 7:17:03 GMT -6
That's not good news at all, heavyhitterokra. I rode the range yesterday morning and circled the Iron Curtain©® & surrounding areas, seeing only one little green grasshopper, but I'm sure there will be an abundance of hungry lurking pestilence out there close to the garden before long. I doubt the rainfall that I got made a dent in the grasshopper population...☹️
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Post by FrostyTurnip on Jun 6, 2024 10:19:58 GMT -6
Hank and I drove out to the garden today to check the progress of the okra and saw that so far, the grasshoppers have been undaunted by the heavy rains. I find your grasshopper infestation bizarre and am want to obsess over its reasoning.
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Post by macmex on Jun 6, 2024 13:24:35 GMT -6
My personal theory about Ron's problems with grasshoppers, is that it has something to do with the ranch land around him. I suspect the family that manages it has used a heavy hand with pesticides and other things like herbicides, causing a very large shortage of beneficial insects and subsequent bloom of pests. These happen to spill over onto Ron's place. I certainly could be wrong, but that's my suspicion.
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Post by woodeye on Jun 6, 2024 15:05:52 GMT -6
That could very possibly be the problem, macmex . When I saw Ron's garden infested with the things last July, there was countless yellow grasshoppers everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE! The only time I have ever seen yellow grasshoppers that thick was in the hay fields when I hauled hay in my youth, the shady side of every bale was completely covered with them. That's in addition to all the dead grasshoppers that were baled up inside the bale of alfalfa.
The grasshopper problem I have here is miniscule in comparison to Ron's, and I don't notice any difference in grasshopper numbers compared to gardens I had back in the 60's and 70's. Luckily, I've never had those voracious yellow grasshoppers in my gardens, thank goodness...
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