hagar
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ORIGINAL: hagar I believe the drought is coming to end here. The last couple of days have been dry, but, it has rained here in the desert recently. In fact we here in Fresno set a record for rainfall on July 1st of .07 of an inch and followed that up with .04 the next day with trace amounts on the 3rd. Fortunately the 4th was not washed out by a storm of those magnitudes. Further proof that the drought is coming to an end is the fact that the last time that there was measurable rainfall here on July 1st was in 1916. Things are definitely looking up. Pretty damn hot and dry up here too. And getting smoky. From the wildfires ... not the legal weed. Both maybe? Fire officials are expecting a catastrophic fire anytime now. Millions and millions of dead and dying trees in the Sierra. Ruined camping this year. No fires allowed in lots of campgrounds. We average twelve 90 degree days a year. We've had 16 and it's only July 10. Pretty mild so far in NE Iowa Very mild and very wet here in eastern Iowa. We seem to keep getting rain several times a week, and the low point of my yard has been spongy wet all year. My grass has been growing like crazy, and I've already mowed more times this year than the last 2 years combined. 2008 was wetter in June and we had a ton of flooding, but this year may end up wetter overall with the rain more evenly spread out. Forecast is more rain over the next several days too. We have a lot of mosquitos in my neighborhood which is unusual. Most years my neighborhood doesn't get many, but there's been a lot more standing water for them to breed. We also are having a wasp breakout. The things are everywhere this year, and I've had to take down 13 newly built nests from under my deck already this summer. Each time I take one down, it seems like 2 more get build the next day. The mild wet weather must be very conducive for them. The neighbors are battling the wasps too which are building nests all over the place. You can keep the mosquitos and wasps. We already have some, but, if you could send some of that excess water my way that would be much appreciated. In contrast to your lawn, mine is almost dead. We aren't allowed to water enough to keep them alive, so, I'm watching mine die a slow torturous death. Less watering, less mowing. I guess there's that.
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