Category: Drought

Well, Lorna Thackeray has written a couple of stories on the drought and we all <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000463.html">know what that means</a>. The series this morning on the drought is interesting but hardly new to anyone in ranch country.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/11/build/local/30-drought.inc">Patience evaporates when water users deal with consequences of drought</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/11/build/local/34-hard-year-moving.inc">Ranch family deals with…

I don't much belive in the profession of rainmaking but lately a couple of people have pointed out thier talent for doing just that. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/blog/citylights/index.php?p=480#comments">City Lights</a> pointed this talent out for me and I am going to have to keep it in mind. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/03/build/local/50-reprts-ntbk.inc">Lorna Thackeray</a> of the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com">Gazette</a> recently wrote that every…

Here this spring I have been hearing a lot of old timers saying that this drought is worse than the Dust Bowl. I just pretend not to hear since I don't want to acknowledge this fact. Now scientists are <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040618/ap_on_sc/record_drought">starting to say</a> the same thing. I know this story more talks about the Colorado…

I had to double check my calender this morning. Yes it is the 31st of March and I see the weather service has issued, of all things, a fire weather watch.<br />n<!–more–><br />n…A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WEDNESDAY…FOR MONTANA FIRE<br />nWEATHER ZONES 124 THROUGH 133…FOR INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS AND VERY<br />nLOW RELATIVE…