My brother in law raises cattle. Just a few, around 50 or so. He has part of his land dedicated to coastal, for hay, and the rest for the cattle. Last year he had to let the cattle go in the coastal from time to time so they would have enough to eat. This year he's not buying any new cattle. Too dry. Now he's talking about harvesting rainwater off his roof and drilling another well with a hand pump just in case...

Originally posted by karen61560
I live in Virginia. We did not have a drought this summer. We had plenty of rain.

I live in Virginia as well and I was not talking about my little corner of the world. We are very fortunate, plenty of rain for the crops and wells...I even said that early back on the first page. Maybe if you would have read what the thread was about instead of jumping to conclusions and thinking your off the cuff remarks were so important you had to blurt it out without reading what other people were saying.

I am aware of national and global things. You should try it instead of living in a bubble and only caring about yourself.

This is the fragile earth forum...it's not just about conspiracies.

ETA...and your post about what can we do? That has been discussed...There are things we can do if this is going to be a long term repeating cycle. It takes planning and infrastructure to do it though.

Ironically here in the UK we've gone from drought to record floods. Last winter was the driest I can ever remember, and we had a bone-dry April. Large parts of England had hosepipe bans in the spring, which was unheard of. Then the jetstream switched sough and we had wall to wall rain.

Interesting thread. Just went through it kinda fast. I did not notice anyone post a long term forecast. Is that something that is available?

I asked my question incorrectly the first time.

When I said extended forecast, I had in mind 3 to 5 years out.

Is there even a way to get that kind of information, and how accurate would it actually be?

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.

Yes, this is to me very scary.

Then we have 200 miles of the Mississippi being closed due to low water.

Thats gonna cost alot of money.

I'd say were in for some scary times.

Can't we just engineer some kind of edible algae that lives on impurities in water? That way it could purify the water as it grows and then provide food.

Wanted to pop this thread back up. I saw a report on the weather channel that the drought just keeps on keeping on...that winter crops are now going to be affected....this is not good.

I have a feeling that now the "Holiday shopping season" is over...the pain at the check out counter is going to spike. We generally buy our meat from a butcher shop....local grown stuff....sorry man...I ain't buying Wal Mart chicken after a report I saw showing them pick up randomly dead chickens in China for harvest....scary....

My meat bill went up big time....I was buying for my Holidays and the month of January and I was like sticker shocked...it was a good 30 to 40 percent higher than it was a month ago. I buy by the pound. I get my ground beef, roasts, chicken breasts and stew meat from the same butcher all the time. It is local grown stuff....I admit I generally spend a little more just for that fact, but when I got the bill this month, I think I had an aneurism...

It is coming folks....they just held it off a few months to get you to overspend for Christmas...it is coming to a market near you...mark my words....