FLORIDA--from a Drought to Swamp--6 days and counting

sunnyd · May 24, 2009

M. McCord said:
Good News: The Sun has made a surprise appearance in Alachua County today.

Glad to hear Gainsville is seeing some sunshine.

Its still hit and miss here but definately improving from what it was.. My son and I just relocated a adolecent Box Turtle that was in serius danger of getting pancaked from the one of the busier local rural Highway's to our pond on my property early this morning.

Anthony

Glock&Surefire · May 24, 2009

Sunnyd I must be pretty darn close to your cousin, because I can just jump on Blanding and head south. I am about five minutes from Middleburg!
Funny thing is you must be closer to my cousins in Sneeds Fl! Funny

SIXFOOTER · May 24, 2009

Here in Boca its been rainin like a cow pissin on a flat rock for over a week. Last week I started clearing out a storage building and have to be done by tuesday, I have lost 2 full days due to the rain. I need a break, just give me 1 day!

uncle Alan · May 26, 2009

sunnyd said:
This Low Pressure System has been sitting here stalled over Florida pissing all over us for nearly a week straight! Its starting to Suck pretty bad here in North Western Palm Beach County.. I know we needed the rain, but Son, on this light tackle!! :grumpy:

Anyone else getting sick of this monsooooon?

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We are getting much less rain now but the long-range forecast shows 60 % + for several more days. After over 2 feet,sunshine is appreciated. Yard is so green it almost hurts your eves.

Uncle [ mildew gone ] Alan

moonwilson · May 26, 2009

It's been raining pretty much every day in Georgia for months. Especially on the weekends. It went from historic drought to this- can't we have some sort of middle ground?

roughedges · May 26, 2009

It's slowed down here as well. Not that much though, the muck still squishes up between my toes. I really need to mow the lawn but don't see it happening for at least a few more days.

sunnyd · May 27, 2009

roughedges said:
It's slowed down here as well. Not that much though, the muck still squishes up between my toes. I really need to mow the lawn but don't see it happening for at least a few more days.

10-4 on that!. Looking like this front is still yet to be cycling through..

I'll be mighty glad when she goes back to the plain old rainy season again..

boatsman · May 27, 2009

Still getting the absurd afternoon rain storms, at least today it had the decency to wait until I got home from work before the flood gates opened.

Bill

TrailingEdge · May 27, 2009

In sunny Florida, we have too kinds of weather -- too much rain and too little rain.

I've been happy to have too much rain here lately.

roughedges · May 27, 2009

TrailingEdge said:
In sunny Florida, we have too kinds of weather -- too much rain and too little rain.

I've been happy to have too much rain here lately.

And only two seasons, ignoring the temps. "The Wet" and "Fire Season". I'm with you though, bad business when it's fire season when it should be wet.

1Tracker · May 27, 2009

Being an old farmboy I can relate to that comment

I moved from Stuart/Hobe Sound area back a few years; used to go out camping most every weekend down the road on RT1 to the Wildlife Preserve. Never saw so many wild pigs in my life

That and sandhill cranes,gopher tortoises and 'gators:thumbup: Forget the name of the place now just South of Hobe Sound on the West side of the road. Lots of good fishing in that backcountry too!

SIXFOOTER said:
Here in Boca its been rainin like a cow pissin on a flat rock for over a week. Last week I started clearing out a storage building and have to be done by tuesday, I have lost 2 full days due to the rain. I need a break, just give me 1 day!

roughedges · May 27, 2009

1Tracker said:
Forget the name of the place now just South of Hobe Sound on the West side of the road. Lots of good fishing in that backcountry too!

Maybe Jonathan Dickinson SP you're talking about? In fact, I'm pretty sure its got to be. The only things that outnumber the hogs and gators are the mosquitos!

1Tracker · May 27, 2009

Yup! That was the Place:thumbup: JD is what I called it all the time, which is why I forgot it's 'street name':foot: If you can stand the chiggers and skeeters is right

But get yourself back DEEP in the woods to the Florida Trail Spur TrailHead and camp there under the palms. Now THAT place was my private little hideaway from work

Good fishing in the creek back there and lots of privacy to enjoy the Florida woods. A few times hog trappers would drive by me hiking down the sand road way back there and stare that anyone would WANT to be back there in the dark alone

Fine with me.....One really memorable Thunderstorm had 3 Rangers hiking back to see if I survived it

Of course when I met up with them on the way out they were plussed not to have to drag my lighting struck butt out of there:thumbup:

SIXFOOTER · May 27, 2009

Great place, been hiking out there a couple times and kyaking too.

1Tracker · May 27, 2009

The Rangers at JD got used to seeing my van in their parking lot so much they eventually hooked me up with a part time job:thumbup: Did hog recon for the Rangers on guys that were poaching in the Park:thumbdn: They were using 4 wheelers coming in from the NorthWest corner of the park, out where the sloughs are and the hand water pump off the trail out that way. The poachers had pulled down some of the fencing that backed to a road out that way....go hike it out to see where I mean. Great place to camp and play in the bush close to home. I worked up in Stuart in the Industrial Park at the time. Business sold and moved offshore, and I headed up to New England.

boatsman · May 28, 2009

Even with all the rain and overpopulation of the area ( I have been here since 1977, only one stoplight in Stuart then) I would'nt move from here. Have tried several areas but always come back, I guess all the great weather days make the heavy rain worth tolerating.

roughedges · May 28, 2009

sunnyd said:
10-4 on that!. Looking like this front is still yet to be cycling through..

I'll be mighty glad when she goes back to the plain old rainy season again..

I'm with ya there. Though there's at least one good benefit to all this above average rainfall, I got to trade in a pickaxe for a shovel.

sunnyd · May 29, 2009

roughedges said:
I'm with ya there. Though there's at least one good benefit to all this above average rainfall, I got to trade in a pickaxe for a shovel.

Yea, that's always a plus.

Lord knows I've been there.. I recall when I first dug out the veggie garden here at the house for my wife and kids it was nearly all coral. I sweated like an old grumpy muel for hours swinging that od pic-axe.. :grumpy:

Happy to see the sunshine this morning though.. We'll see if it lasts.

roughedges · May 29, 2009

sunnyd said:
Yea, that's always a plus. Lord knows I've been there.. I recall when I first dug out the veggie garden here at the house for my wife and kids it was nearly all coral. I sweated like an old grumpy muel for hours swinging that od pic-axe.. :grumpy:

Happy to see the sunshine this morning though.. We'll see if it lasts.

heh, I already knew it but it's good to get confirmation that I'm not the only one! I handed Nava, my lady, a chunk of marl and she thought it was solid rock until I encouraged her to throw it.

I decided today that I'm going to stick primarily with raised beds for veggies and florida natives for landscaping/fruiting plants. Hopefully keep the axe swinging to a minimum. Although I do have some clumping bamboo I want to get in the ground, but at least it's a grass and shouldn't have any problems with this limestone/sand/clay we call soil in some areas out here.

1Tracker · May 31, 2009

A) the Bamboo will help loosen up your 'soil'; and B) get yourself some EARTHBOXs for gardening down there. They were/are made over on the West Coast of FL IIRC. Best dang garden idea in the 35 yrs I've been at it.