The last few years have been very dry

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:32:52 -0500 (EST)
From: carole henry
Subject: Here she/he/it goes again

Well, the question still is, where did you get your data that California does not have a drought? Nor does Chatham or North Carolina? What data is there that supports your rants?

I know my land in Chatham County is in a drought. When I moved here thirty years ago, there were drought conditions. The pasture was a bit dry and pond not so high. When the rains started again, pond was full and grass was flush. Some parts of the pasture were not drivable as you sunk in. I am lucky that my pond is spring fed. It does not get green algae in the summer. When, rains came and we were flush with high water tables you could not drive a truck in the upper pasture in the springtime. Told the electric company that when they came to put up the telephone poles. Told them to stay by the fence line in that area. Hmmm they thought that Yankee (from Scot, German, Norwegian lines by the way, same stuff you all came from) knows nothing and lo, they ignored what I told them and a few hours later needed heavy duty tows to pull their trucks out of the pasture, leaving huge low areas where their tires spun down and I am still filling up. However each time I have filled up one of the holes it brings a smile to my face when I think of how it came to be there.

But things started changing. Instead of getting back to ‘normal’ after a drought, it started staying a little dryer then the last flush time. Then dryer and dryer after each drought was finished. It has not gotten back to ‘normal’ I love the mountains and woods and tho no longer have hunted or trapped in decades still like to ‘wood’ walk and see what is going on with the wildlife. It is disappearing. No more the variety of bird life. No more mice around my home. The mice were a pain in the grain bins and they loved to move in on a vehicle that was stationary for a while. Have put out all sorts of traps. Use to catch them using blue cheese. None caught for over a year.. The carpenter bees no longer a bother last year. The grain that spilled out of the feeding pans is still there. No longer are there birds eating the left overs. Does not anyone see what is happening? I see trees dying in my travels. Too many bare limbs sticking out of the tops of trees. You can now see the sky through the trees. The foliage has not been as thick as years gone by. Trees help stop erosion as well as providing shade for the earth and keeping it moist.

The last few years have been very dry. The pasture has not grown the way it use to but the main problem this last year was, for the first time the natural spring which, for every spring time was wet above the ground, was dry and hard last springtime. It was not the dryness that has bothered me it was the hardness of the pasture ground and where the spring was/is. Even during the hottest years the land in that area use to be spongy to walk on. That upper pasture where the jerks got stuck in, is now rock hard all year round. We are in drought conditions and we are in trouble. Clean water is a MUST for all life. You can take just so much from the glass before it is empty. There is no new water coming to us. When big powerful companies can come in where these conditions already exist and take millions of gallons of water, render it undrinkable, inject it back into the ground to pollute what is left, we are deep in trouble. Like their money? Try drinking it.

So again Tish, Tush, Tphish or what ever your name is, where can we find the data that you base your rants on.

“See what they do and listen not to what they say”