The rain finally came.

[stevej37]

5.3 inches in the last 3 days. The next week looks like more.
My lawn is coming back..mowed this afternoon.

[GH85Carrera]

We received 6.75 inches over the last two days. More rain coming tonight and all week long.

[stevej37]

^^^ Were you in drought condition before the rain came?
We were on the line between moderate and severe.

[Rusty Heap]

[stevej37]

^^^ wtf?? lol

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by stevej37

^^^ Were you in drought condition before the rain came?
We were on the line between moderate and severe.

Central OK was not in drought at all. Parts of the western areas of the state were in moderate drought, likely no longer.

It is nice to not even hit 80 on June 27th. Normal temp is 90 or so.

[stevej37]

^^^ Prob made 6.75 inches way too much then.

[GH85Carrera]

Some of the campsite around the local lakes had the Park Rangers wake them up in the middle of the night to make them move to higher ground. The local lakes are all be closed because they are at flood stage. July 4th will not have boaters or camping this year.

[smadsen]

Our entire rainy season this year totaled about 4.0 inches in soCal. All in two storms about a month apart. Got to skip about about 2 sprinkler cycles. Woohoo!

[Evans, Marv]

This ^^^^^ We're about half of our average yearly total. Send some of that our way.

[Sooner or later]

Roads into my sub division. It would need to get another 5' higher to get into my place. Everything is back open today.

[GH85Carrera]

We received another 1.5 inches last night. No major downfall, just slow and steady. The 4th of July lake people are going to be disappointing, the boat ramps are mostly flooded and the camping areas closed due to lake flooding.

[vash]

you all are lucky. i saved my rice washing water to dump into my wife's Delilahs. my tomatoes and stuff get the good water. by good water, i mean the stuff i just washed my veggies with.

my brother told me some poor lady washed away in some desert arroyo yesterday. she didnt make it.

[GH85Carrera]

Somehow the Oklahoma politicians in the 1930s and 40s had the vision to start building man made water storage lakes for drinking water, and recreation. We have plenty of water storage, and the limits on our water is the processing ability. That of course can be fixed with more water processing plants, and more wastewater treatment plants.

Right now, for sure have too much, but it will drain down to the rivers to the Mississippi and out to the Gulf and to the oceans. In Oklahoma the lakes are just a temporary storage for the water. We process it, use it in houses and industry, and send it down the drain to be treated and discharged back into the same rivers we gathered it from, and send it south. I am sure billions of gallons evaporate from the lakes and just turn into rain to fall to the ground again.

Water is never "used up" it just get endlessly recycled.

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

We received another 1.5 inches last night. No major downfall, just slow and steady. The 4th of July lake people are going to be disappointing, the boat ramps are mostly flooded and the camping areas closed due to lake flooding.

Thank goodness I only received a tenth or so overnight. Another big rain and some cities down here are going to be in deep doo doo. Walter's is on the verge of disaster as it is. This is East Cache Creek (ECC flows 1/2 mile east of me, that is what floods me) at Walters if they don't get any more significant rainfall. They are currently a foot and a half over major flood stage. Still 3' below the record.

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Somehow the Oklahoma politicians in the 1930s and 40s had the vision to start building man made water storage lakes for drinking water, and recreation. We have plenty of water storage, and the limits on our water is the processing ability. That of course can be fixed with more water processing plants, and more wastewater treatment plants.

Right now, for sure have too much, but it will drain down to the rivers to the Mississippi and out to the Gulf and to the oceans. In Oklahoma the lakes are just a temporary storage for the water. We process it, use it in houses and industry, and send it down the drain to be treated and discharged back into the same rivers we gathered it from, and send it south. I am sure billions of gallons evaporate from the lakes and just turn into rain to fall to the ground again.

Water is never "used up" it just get endlessly recycled.

Oklahoma has more man made lakes than any other US state.

[GH85Carrera]

It looks like most of the water from the OKC metro area goes out South and East to Arkansas so your flood water is mostly from Texas and local sources. Good luck, hopefully it will start to drain down soon.

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

It looks like most of the water from the OKC metro area goes out South and East to Arkansas so your flood water is mostly from Texas and local sources. Good luck, hopefully it will start to drain down soon.

All of my flooding is local. They had to open the gates on both city lakes and that basically filled up Cache Creek. Any ofher runoff has nowhere to go.

The smaller creeks that normally run into Cache Creek run backwards. The two pictures I posted above show the water running backwards.

[stevej37]

I have a clay ground base below the topsoil. It holds the moisture well. It also can't rain too much for me...my property is all on a hill.

Mowed Sunday eve...needs it again now.

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

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