I'm So Tired Of This Heat!

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As Sandy said, we got 12 drops this evening. A big red (via radar) cloud went right south of us, so I'm sure south Austin got some good rain!

I need to take a picture of the yard next door. There are young kids who live there and they haven't watered the yard a drop. It is dead and yellow. I have watered, so mine is still green. It's like that up and down the street - green yard, yellow yard, green, yellow, green, yellow - a really stark contrast!!!

We usually see deer when we drive to my daughter's - but not any more, I'm sure many of them have died or dehydrated. All the streams and ponds are dried up and there is no green grass in the pastures at all. It is terrible. I heard on a radio show that lots of very old trees in the hill country are dying due to lack of water. It is incredible to think they may have lived for decades, but now are dying/dead. I think it will rain lots this fall/winter, but the effects of this drought will last a long time and I don't think a wet fall/winter will get us out of this drought.