[peeker01]

For those of you who don't understand how weather works (doobie), the attached upper air chart
will show you how the high over Texas has broken up, and the steering currents are now zonal,
bring in moisture from the west and southwest. Good news surely.

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Wind/JetStream.aspx

[AgentR11]

Do you not get it? Fall here is supposed to look like a swamp. I'm supposed to step on my lawn and here squishy sounds; I'm supposed to go to the Renfair and think rubber boots, not sandals. Football stadiums are enclosed here so that you don't end up watching two sets of mudblobs doing a testosterone version of mud wrestling.

I step on my lawn now, or walk on the farm's grass remains and I hear distinctly West Texas style desert gravelly dry dusty sounds. Its friggin creapy.

Even if the normal rain pattern returned for fall, it wouldn't be enough; and CPC says dryer than normal, contrary to your wishcasters. Not that there isn't hope, and not that the drought won't end; but it won't be ending this fall nor winter. Our next LaNina should be a wimpy version, so maybe with a little luck we'll go ElNino next, and that *will* end the drought. It might end the drought with 50" of rain. Ask the folks along the Brazos and Guadalupe about floods. Massive and fast. Climate change or not, we're definitely in outlier territory...

[peeker01]

I don't know what's wrong with you people. I don't know why you can't accept good news.
Don't really care what sounds your sandals make in the grass, or when they will do it again.
Remember, California was just as dry 2 years ago, and it is OVER. If Texas needs more reservoir
capacity to span a 1 year drought, I suggest you get started.

The weather pattern has shifted, and shifted for the good. You should be happy, not snippy.

[AgentR11]

You really need to stop talking about a state you know nothing about.

Texas has plenty of reservoir capacity. Able to outlast double the current drought. But that's not the problem. The problem is the agricultural and fire impacts. And there is no good news to be had on that front. The breaking of the high and fall weather pattern will not bring anywhere near enough rain to have an impact. Unfortunately, we know, and have experienced what WILL do it; and while it will be very wet, it will also be very destructive.

[Oakley]

Don't you Texans worry; Rick Perry is praying the drought away.

[peeker01]

I lived in Dallas long enough to know that there are wet years and there are dry years in
Texas. Sack Up and quit your whining.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'I') lived in Dallas long enough to know that there are wet years and there are dry years in
Texas. Sack Up and quit your whining.

[eXpat]

Shorty

[peeker01]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'I') lived in Dallas long enough to know that there are wet years and there are dry years in
Texas. Sack Up and quit your whining.

[AgentR11]

So not only can you not count reservoirs and note that we'd dam up a runny nose if the lip under it would stay still long enough; you also object to facilities to further improve the civil water capacity in the state? Ludite syndrome? I really don't get what makes you tick in this thread. The normal fall weather pattern can not break the current drought. The ground is too dry, the deficit is simply too large. It may rain, and rain good in the fall, despite the CPC's evaluation, and the DROUGHT WILL STILL BE SEVERE/EXCEPTIONAL.

Why is that so hard to understand?

So first, you suggest some fall rains will break the drought. Which they can't.

Then you suggest to build more reservoirs, which can't happen, because all the workable possibilities are already built.

If someone magically added another river system to Texas with something resembling rock underneath it somewhere, it'd still be empty since Texas rivers have squat for streamflow without local precipitation. So, the magical dam, and magical reservoir and the magical river, would be unmagically, very empty.

Then you whine about a water treatment plant?

There's some method to your posts somewhere, but I'm just not seeing it.

[peeker01]

You are repeating yourself. Better go find your umbrella. I think I saw it in the backyard!

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'Y')ou are repeating yourself. Better go find your umbrella. I think I saw it in the backyard!

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'F')or those of you who don't understand how weather works (doobie), the attached upper air chart
will show you how the high over Texas has broken up, and the steering currents are now zonal,
bring in moisture from the west and southwest. Good news surely.

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Wind/JetStream.aspx

[peeker01]

Do you see how convoluted and backwards this conversation is? I am making the point that
weather patterns indicate the end of the drought, and you are trying to make me prove that
Texas needs more reservoirs. Hello!!!

[AgentR11]

But what if the will of the Lord is to drive out all the Yankee unbelievers from this most holy land, so that only the faithful will remain, and shall acquire for one, that which the Yankee defilers bought for ten.

Perry lacks imagination.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'D')o you see how convoluted and backwards this conversation is? I am making the point that
weather patterns indicate the end of the drought, !

[peeker01]

So what's your _ucking point Agent?

[Pretorian]

You will be in trouble Peek, just like most of othe rpeople. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'S')o what's your _ucking point Agent?

[nobodypanic]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'I') lived in Dallas long enough to know that there are wet years and there are dry years in
Texas. Sack Up and quit your whining.