We cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year.
Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the terminal decline of existing fields.
We are going to have to import more of our oil. Period.
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3277 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:53 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Well crud, we got water water everywhere! 8 inches of snow last Friday night melted by Wednesday, then 4 more inches this thursday night which melted yesterday, not to mention a half an inch of rain Wednesday!
It might be great for the lake levels but all the plants are still dormant so it is really runoff from completely saturated soil with no benefits for the growing season. _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 5699 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
We got water here too! Rain seems to be again penetrating the drought shield that reestablished itself in Virginia/NC in March after some relief earlier.
I'm listening to it gurgling in the downspouts right at this moment. What a lovely sound.
Just in time for spring and my 3,300 tree seedlings I keep bragging about. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Spring? Where? We still have 3 feet of snow here. We are in the middle of the maple sugaring season. It came late here. I think we could use a little warmish weather. I want to make 10 more gallons of syrup first, though.
Up where our sugar camp is the snowpack is still very solid.
It's like a glacier around here. I think it will melt very fast when it finally goes.
I can't say that I'll be all that sorry to see it go.
I am going on a trip to the south as soon as April vacation comes. _________________ Deep in the mud and slime of things, even there, something sings.
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 525 Location: northern California
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Our cold and moderately snowy winter has evolved into a cold, windy but extremely dry spring, so far. This morning I woke up to clear skies, no wind, but 1 degree above zero farenheit! Certainly premature for any thoughts of gardening. Hard to believe I'm writing this from California. The hand-dug well has only 5 inches of water in the bottom now-- it took me 5 hours to do a load of laundry today. Traditionally, the snows in the mountains melt & run down here sometime in April, filling the pond, then a month later, the well water level begins to rise. Unfortunately the pond did not fill last year. _________________ "And the cost of a thing, it will be remembered, is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it, immediately, or in the long run." H.D. Thoreau
Joined: May 10, 2007 Posts: 2274 Location: napping on the couch
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:28 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Just got 6-8 more inches of really heavy wet snow... hopefully the last of the season. Ground is already saturated... It is going to be a pain.
It was the worst drive to work in a long, long time. _________________ The sage experiences without abstraction,
And accomplishes without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.
-Lao Tzu
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:07 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
This has been the weirdest 3 months of weather since I moved to the Portland, Oregon area. But this last week...sheesh.
We've had snow almost every day for the last week - completely unheard of in late March and, in fact, a record for the latest snowfall at the airport. On Sunday, we had 4 separate hails. We rarely get one in the spring much less 4 in one day. And one hail lasted for quite a while, again virtually unheard of.
And cold! It's been up to 15-18 degrees below normal this last week.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 5699 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:07 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
By Virginia standards, it has been a chilly spring here so far too---I'm still using the woodstove, off and on and off and on. (A real drain on the kindling supply.) _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 1484 Location: Nez Perce Nation
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Tucker,
We're getting the tail end of what you people in Portland have been going through. Rain, snow and below normal temperatures.
The wettest, coldest spring I've seen in decades.
This morning it is clear and cold. _________________ "Modern Agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
-- Albert Bartlett
"It will be a dark time. But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting."
-- James Lovelock
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
We've had about an average winter (from what I remember from childhood) with 40 inches of snow in Minneapolis (average snowfall). We had our last snowstorm on March 31, later than average, but not so unusual. In comparison to recent winters, say the last 10 years, it has been longer than usual.
Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 473 Location: Northern US
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Spring is taking its time here. Today was 8F below average.
Looked at my books, 4/4/7 was the big freeze we had last year that wiped out most of the tree fruit. Today, the peach buds are not even swelling yet. _________________ "...the problem is today we have unknown unknowns."
Dominique Strauss-Kahn; IMF chief
Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 6339 Location: My Grandkids' Farm
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:59 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Well here in the Ozarks we had an unprecedented tornado outbreak in January along with a little ice storm and February and March set back-to-back, all-time rainfall records - a record in itself.
The daffodils are blooming though... _________________ Make a plan and work it:
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:14 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Overall we had an old fashioned winter. Old fashioned in the sense that it snowed ALOT this year. The meltwater is flooding all the rivers and streams and creating quite a mess.
The last of the snow is going and the grass is starting to green up in the pasture.
The weather wasn't cold enough, unfortunately, to kill the bugs, according to the forestry guy who spoke at our woodlot meeting a while back. We needed some sustained -20 weather to control the tent caterpillars so we'll likely lose more oaks this year.
I'm hoping for a moderate summer with ample rains as I'm planning on increasing food production this year and I won't have the ability to irrigate.
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