This drought is massive

[Trub Lou]

400 here. That's on the deep side for this area.

[Vagus]

The Deep

[Mexas Joe]

Tho.

[garyNconcord]

How deep are ya'lls wells?

My brother had one dug just this month and he and to go almost 700' to hit the 2nd aquifer under him.

My granny had a shallow like 60' old school well. It was good water but it would silt up and go dry.

She had a new well dug but only went like 200' due to Poors and her water was sulpher and smelled like rotten eggs. I stopped drinking her coffee.

Mine is just shy of 300'.  It was producing a little over 20 gpm when it was put in. Since it was dug, my neighbor put his in downgrade and about 250 yards from mine.  I don't know how much impact he's having on the aquifer, or if its even on the same one.  My parent's was a bored well 2' plus in diameter and less than 50 feet deep.  I remember getting red stained water until we put in some berms to divert runoff, upgrade from it.  North Carolina red clay was the source of the red.  We never ran dry, but it would still get muddy at times.

[bdutton]

My moms house has a well and she went deep. I'm thinking 600+ feet due to her being on top of a hill and the area is made up of a lot of shale. Smells and tastes like clay. I can't drink it even when she puts it though her zero water filter.

She used to have a spring box but it got overgrown and lost and it dried up.

[garyNconcord]

My moms house has a well and she went deep. I'm thinking 600+ feet due to her being on top of a hill and the area is made up of a lot of shale. Smells and tastes like clay. I can't drink it even when she puts it though her zero water filter.

She used to have a spring box but it got overgrown and lost and it dried up.

You just brought back a memory. My great grandmother had a spring that emptied into the partially buried concrete pipe that was on its end and stayed full to the top. A well pump sat on a couple of 2 x 6's across the top and pumped to a pressure tank. Worked like a charm, and the best water you ever drank.

[Mexas Joe]

No break to this massive drought in sight. No rain in the 10 day outlook. I'm watering erryday to keep muh lawn alive. I'm really excited about the next $300 water bill.

What is not being talked about is the impact on crops. From Texas up to Nebraska this shit's hitting hard. Forget any wheat.

And don't forget hay. My brother bailed last weekend and got 10 fecking round bales when he should have gotten 35-40. Same story everywhere. Cows gotta have chow too, Chillrens.

Now step back even further and look at the stoppage of food from the Ukraine breadbasket and the Dutch farmers getting shut down.

Africa gunna starve without the handouts sent to them. Sri Lanka's government fell today and their Preezy fled the nation. They are starving and have no power/gas.

Domino effect inbound.

[Trub Lou]

Pfft. You thought that coronavirus was going to be a problem too, Chicken Little.

It's just a good thing you have dudes like DrunkenDad to tell you you're worried about a nothingburger.

[Vagus]

Guys, the world already died. We live on only to feed off its corpse.

[Buzzie mcnugget]

We had not had rain in 6 weeks here, it just broke loose a couple days ago.
Walking around the property you can sense the relief and rebirth of life the rain has brought. Birds, frogs, etc.. all are busy again.
Such a great relief.