Weather....yup yup. Today I saw some. Drove the over 700 mile route from southern Missouri to south central Texas. 14 hours.
It was dry as a bone in Missouri and most of Arkansas. Started raining about Hope. Turned into buckets of rain, then torrential downpours between Nacadoches (I canNOT spell that) and Lufkin. Highway speeds came down to 35 mph, and every business we passed had the office folks standing at the front windows watching the precipitation.
Traffic seemed somewhat lighter than it usually is on a Tuesday, which is normally a big truck day.
Here on the coastal plain, I saw one corn field being 'mudded out,' which means that they were using four wheel drive farm equipment and destroying the rows to get the crop out. Huge mud clods left in the wake of the combines and auger buggies. Water still standing in the rows. The cotton plants are turning black. Not a good weather/farming year here at all.
Edited to add:
Yes, you are right. That was Erma Bombeck. Don't forget the cry of "TAWANDA!" in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes!
And, Yes, again, city folks with osteoporosis need to leave pastured bovines alone for several reasons. In a few days, they are going to think they are pets and climb in the field to pet them. Sigh. Can you say bone fracture?
It was dry as a bone in Missouri and most of Arkansas. Started raining about Hope. Turned into buckets of rain, then torrential downpours between Nacadoches (I canNOT spell that) and Lufkin. Highway speeds came down to 35 mph, and every business we passed had the office folks standing at the front windows watching the precipitation.
Traffic seemed somewhat lighter than it usually is on a Tuesday, which is normally a big truck day.
Here on the coastal plain, I saw one corn field being 'mudded out,' which means that they were using four wheel drive farm equipment and destroying the rows to get the crop out. Huge mud clods left in the wake of the combines and auger buggies. Water still standing in the rows. The cotton plants are turning black. Not a good weather/farming year here at all.
Edited to add:
Yes, you are right. That was Erma Bombeck. Don't forget the cry of "TAWANDA!" in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes!
And, Yes, again, city folks with osteoporosis need to leave pastured bovines alone for several reasons. In a few days, they are going to think they are pets and climb in the field to pet them. Sigh. Can you say bone fracture?
