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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse
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To: Mannie who wrote (12416)7/16/2011 11:56:59 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 24232
 
Some anecdotes from this morning's Drum

On mid Vancouver island we have had just a few nice days from MAY. It has rained almost steady (off and on) from July 1. This morning,,,,rain and fog and the river is up. Our vegetable garden is too wet to walk in.

Down south you folks are dying of heat. We have Rupert or Anchorage weather and the mid and sw continent is like the Mojave Desert.

I guess if this is the harbinger of CC and more things to come, we will be eating a lot of potatoes in our house. My chickens look misreable. Actually the greenhouse is doing well but peppers and tomates are barely on the vine. I actually lit the fire this morning, mostly to hear it crackle and dry my shoes and shirts.

Anyone running out of water down south....you can have some of ours. It is too hot for rain gear so I just go out in shorts and get wet.

The last time we had a summer like this was when Mt. St Helens blew.

Hang in there.
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northern BC - heavy snowfall after the ski hill closed, Rain almost every day in a normally dry climate. " Wettest spring in thirty years"; it rains every time our hay farmer brings out a piece of machinery. Greenhouse tomatoes have few flowers & no fruit
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There is concern about the corn crop :-

desmoinesregister.com.

"Corn plants are putting out male tassels and female silks this week. Next week, pollination will create the kernels that are the heart of the corn crop, which could bring in a record $17 billion to Iowa this year.

Agronomists and meteorologists agree that 86 degrees is the best condition for corn reproduction. Instead, the tassels and kernels will get temperatures averaging 95 degrees or more."

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The band of exceptional drought--the highest level measured--persists almost from coast to coast across the south. 14 states have some level of abnormally dry or drought conditions in all or nearly all counties.

Here in Minnesota we are looking at temperatures in the mid nineties for the next few days, with heat index up to 116 and in that range for much of the area--the highest in the country.

thinkprogress.org.
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