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re: Houston: Is this the driest summer you can remember?
Posted on 8/3/23 at 10:33 am to Slingscode
Posted on 8/3/23 at 10:33 am to Slingscode
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We too have been moving to more native species. They are more drought tolerant and just easier to manage in general. Seems my pines are the most susceptible to drought. Must watch carefully for pine bark beetle these days. Lost a pine to that last summer and another this spring due to a lightning strike. They were both infested by pine bark beetles.
Yeah, the beetles are doing an absolute number on the pines. One of the bad parts of that is that with many hardwood species a dead standing tree provides a good bit of benefit to an ecosystem. A dead standing pine doesn't provide much, certainly not enough to outweigh the potential problems it can create (threats to structures and roads, fuel for wildfires, what seems like a damn magnet for lightning strikes....).
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Posted on 8/3/23 at 11:15 am to thadcastle
July has been dry, but overall it hasn't been too bad of summer from a rainfall standpoint.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 12:04 pm to thadcastle
Far from it. The foilage last year was much drier.
June and early July were pretty wet this year.
June and early July were pretty wet this year.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 12:25 pm to biglego
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Why do people freak out about keeping their grass green in summer? Stop wasting water. It’ll grow back.
politely, no. no it won’t.
most people in the Houston area who live in neighborhoods likely have St Augustine lawns. If St Augustine dies down and weeds and the natural grass (texas bermuda) in the area takes over. It’s not coming back. You would have to completely re-sod the lawn if you wanted St Aug again. Not to mention you’d have ti water the piss out of it the first few weeks you planted it.
Definitely would not recommend hoping “it’ll grow back”
This post was edited on 8/3/23 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 8/3/23 at 12:26 pm to Klark Kent
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most people in the Houston area who live in neighborhoods likely have St Augustine lawns.
Sounds like a poor choice for the area.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 12:29 pm to LegendInMyMind
it’s what the house came with.
it thrives and chokes out weeds like no other when it’s properly watered. it’s just not as heat tolerant as bermuda or centipede.
not a problem if you have a good sprinkler system and understand how much it would cost to replace the sod if you let it die by being lazy.
and to your point. I’d love to have all Bermuda. Problem is. I’d have to let the St Aug completely die off and then it would take months and months for the Bermuda to get established. Not as simple as just letting the natural grass grow to fill it in. You’d have to seed a lot of bermuda for years to come for it to become a true lawn. Bermuda is also an a-hole to mow.
And i got 2 kids and 2 dogs. Ain’t nobody got time to sit and wait for that while dealing with dirt and mud puddles for months/years.
it thrives and chokes out weeds like no other when it’s properly watered. it’s just not as heat tolerant as bermuda or centipede.
not a problem if you have a good sprinkler system and understand how much it would cost to replace the sod if you let it die by being lazy.
and to your point. I’d love to have all Bermuda. Problem is. I’d have to let the St Aug completely die off and then it would take months and months for the Bermuda to get established. Not as simple as just letting the natural grass grow to fill it in. You’d have to seed a lot of bermuda for years to come for it to become a true lawn. Bermuda is also an a-hole to mow.
And i got 2 kids and 2 dogs. Ain’t nobody got time to sit and wait for that while dealing with dirt and mud puddles for months/years.
This post was edited on 8/3/23 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 8/3/23 at 12:36 pm to Klark Kent
Accuweather has rain forecasted for the 16th
Posted on 8/3/23 at 12:57 pm to thadcastle
Houston typically averages 45-55" rainfall per year.
Oct. 2010 - Oct.2011 was 17.79" with most of that in Jan. (5")
2017 - 80" that year with 39" in Aug. Harvey dumped a year's worth a rain in a few days.
Oct. 2010 - Oct.2011 was 17.79" with most of that in Jan. (5")
2017 - 80" that year with 39" in Aug. Harvey dumped a year's worth a rain in a few days.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 1:31 pm to thadcastle
Not even close. 2011 was misery. All the dead trees in Memorial park near running path had to be torn down as they were a hazard. The park looked barren afterwards. I think somewhere it was reported there were 70+ days of over 100 degree weather. Bayous dried up. Bastrop wildfires were so bad that I'd come home from walking my kids to school (in Houston) and smell like a chimney.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 1:32 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
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Not even close. 2011 was misery.
This. 2011 was by far the worst. Good time to build pipelines though. No rain outs.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 1:50 pm to thadcastle
The combination of heat, drought, and Sahara Dust is worse than I’ve ever experienced in Houston area since 2001.
I heard a few months ago that there were 47 cloud seeding projects ongoing in the US. Not sure how detrimental these are to environment but I may want one in my area.
I heard a few months ago that there were 47 cloud seeding projects ongoing in the US. Not sure how detrimental these are to environment but I may want one in my area.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 2:29 pm to Hangover Haven
quote:Bass don’t exist this summer in south la, and lower units are getting murdered left and right
Was catching speckle trout where we normally caught bass.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 2:31 pm to thadcastle
No, remember a drought where the daily temperature was 110F for about two weeks. Many trees in my area died.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 3:19 pm to thadcastle
Hard to believe we were getting decent rain in June.
In my 50 years, I can't remember much worse.
In my 50 years, I can't remember much worse.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 3:35 pm to Hangover Haven
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It's dry here in Metry, but not as dry as 2000 was...
Was catching speckle trout where we normally caught bass.
I remember 2000 being really bad. We could jump off a friends pier onto dry ground that year, when normally that part was around 4-5' deep water.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 3:37 pm to CR4090
I live in Katy and in 2011 i lost bunch of trees in my backyard, but now apparently my front porch foundation concrete must be cracking because my porch roof and gutters are separating and boards are splitting and now dipping, i guess from ground being dang dry !! so pissed off !
Posted on 8/3/23 at 3:45 pm to thadcastle
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Prolly 2011 and 1980 were worse.
Was it 2011 that all those trees died at Memorial Park?
That year was bad
Posted on 8/3/23 at 3:54 pm to thadcastle
Pretty sure some time in the late 90s, La. had a 100 year drought. Lake Ophelia completely dried up. It has still not reopened to fishing.
Posted on 8/3/23 at 4:00 pm to ghost2most
Central Texas - I've had less than 3-4 inches since last summer on my place. Most of that was early spring.
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