General Discussion & Chat: THE GARAGE CAFE - where we are fixing and repairing daily!, 1 by BLOSSOMBUDDY

BLOSSOMBUDDY wrote:
Well, this morning they started evacuating some areas in NC. I have been on the coast around Cape Hatterus and New England and those seas can get really nasty. The eye is on the storms there.

Its cloudy here and fixing to rain, but has not blessed us yet. Our storms are not like those on the coast but can be just as devastating sometimes.

It has been very dry and the woods here are a potential fire hazard as are the farmfields with the early fall coming on.

The pond on the prairie has virtually dried up except for a puddle and all the little frogletts that are still part tadpole are struggling to survive. I hope they can make it out of the mud before its too late and they die a premature death becasue the moisture is gone. If we do not get the needed rain, they wil all die. As it is its just almost all mud and they are not able to hop much yet.. Its horrible when this happens and they end up dying from lack of the water and there are gazillions of potential mosquito eaters that we hope hop out of there!

While this photo looks like a pretty shot of the woods here, you know how dry it is just by the suns rays and the dust in the air. Its very dusty here now and will get worst as harvest gets on in the farm fields.

I lost a chicken yesterday due to a respitory issue and the dust. Poor guy literally suffocated with a lung infection from the dirt blowing here from neighboring farms. A lot of this wind errosion can be prevented. But some peope have no clue on how to manage their land. They over graze, they create dirt lots, they do a lot of mismanagement that promotes the errosion and that is just plain stupid to let your dirt blow away. And granted in years when it is so dry, it often cannot be helped, but to promote it by ill management is really bad.