My family has been here from before it was Texas. This is what people native to this area have been screaming about but nobody listens. In their defense, it's hard to hear when you have dollar bills crammed in your ears. This part of Texas is being developed at an unsustainable rate. There isn't enough water. The people moving here have no understanding of the true effects of drought. Unless you have lived through it, seen wildlife, your stock dead from the drought, you can't comprehend a time when no, zero water flows when you turn on the tap. This drought isn't 100% responsible for dried up places like the Medina. The San Antonio paper had an article saying that the aquifer was very nearly at stage 4 restrictions but San Antonio would keep them at stage 2 for a while longer. This part of Texas has thousands of springs but every year more and more dry up because of the increasing greed of developers and all those connected to it. We have been warned for 3 decades that I remember, of the increasing speed of the aquifers demise. All the plans to slow down or limit growth, in order to preserve our water, seem to evaporate faster than the water when money is involved. I've about decided that we should go ahead and start planning the funeral service for the Hill Country. As long as people come through and their eyes bug while saying "Look at all this land and there is nothing on it!" and the organizations, committees and departments, that were established for the purpose of protecting the water, just giggle and crumble when money is waved at them, when this development frenzy reaches critical mass then our aquifer will be no more. The carpetbag developers will have moved on and the Hill Country will be just that. Barren, brown hills. Progress is the new metaphor for pillage.
This is sad😔 I was born and raised in Chicago and I always dreamed of living in Texas. Been here for over 13 years and I thought 2011 was a fluke...but this is the new normal. I really don't wanna leave...I don't see myself living in any other state 😒
@@huckstirred7112 yes and no. Have you ever bought a bag of potting soil, get home and start trying to get your plants going but the soil almost repels the water? It takes some soaking time or a little dab of dish soap in the water before the dirt will take in the water. Here, in the Hill Country, the dirt is powdery for at least 12 inches. That's just when I quit digging. With a hurricane, you can get anywhere from a half to six inches of rain an hour. Sounds terrific but it's not. The water doesn't have time to soak in. Because of the terrain the water starts to flow pretty quickly. The driest soil tends to float so you get tremendous erosion. Flash flooding washes away part of the top soil, the water that does manage to soak in isn't very much. It doesn't take but a half dozen cactus, three or four days of temperatures over one hundred and you are back to square one minus some soil. There is a temporary relief for wildlife but until the actual weather pattern changes and we get some weeks of slow, steady rain, this will continue. There are parts of Texas where the terrain is vastly different and heavy rain effects those parts differently. You can find terrain like almost any other state somewhere in Texas. I did say almost any state. I've only lived in Texas for 62 years so I haven't seen everything. Going by what I have seen, our only hope until winter is hard on us is to hope that when the geese start flying south, maybe they will be good enough to pee as they fly over.
@@AVToth sir you are correct .The right media did a video might have been 2 years ago on what he called the grand solar minimum .He said that this weather pattern we are in is going to be around for a decade .He talked about how many farms will not survive .I told him he was full of shit .But everything he predicted has come true .Spring to wet to get crops in ,when the crops are put in it will get roasting hot and no rain .and early frost . yea I am worried to my friend
I’ve lived in Texas my entire life. I remember how brutal 1980 and 2011 were. But this summer. I dunno. The intense heat/temperatures we are having somehow seem different. The sun seems so much more intense. And I’m not the only one that’s noticed this.
!980 was bad up in the Ozark foothills. We had 25 pair on 360 acres. No grass or vegitation as high as a cow could reach. Every day I cut cull trees. The cattle ate ebery leaf and the smaller twigs. When they heard the chainsaw start up they came a running. We bailed rice stubble behind the combine for winter hay. They irrigate rice and thats all that grew.
I am with you , after 63 years as a native Texan this is different just a few minutes outside and any exposed skin is burning the UV Rays are greatly enhanced , no matter how much I water my garden the plants wilt everyday from the intense UV rays beating down on them and here 30 miles from the Gulf the pecan trees are brown all the way to the ground in a normal summer just a little at the top turn brown !
I'm from Texas, now living in Indianapolis, and I remember the 2011 drought. People who haven't experienced D4 drought the way we have experienced it in Texas have no idea how destructive and devastating it can be. This is a well-done video, but it makes me sad to see areas that I deeply love in such stress. The long-range forecast is pessimistic: a third, consecutive La Niña will develop this winter, which means little, if any rain for the desert Southwest, including Texas and Oklahoma. Worse, if the Gulf Stream collapses, La Niñas may become a permanent fixture of Southwestern climate.
It’s crazy God and Mother Nature gave us so much rain last year our yard and pasture was a lake, alligators coming into yards it was so wet. Now drier than a popcorn fart. I remember 2011 it was bad.
If development had been controlled there would be drought but it wouldn't be this bad. The springs from the aquifer used to keep at least some water running but those springs are long gone.
Climate change deniers know they can't try to tell us that nothing is happening since we can all see the lakes drying up and mass wildfires with our own eyes... so now you guys changed your talking point to call it a "drought." I see what you guys did there. Denying climate change is a not so subtle way of telling us you support fossil fuel industries.
@@user-uy3eq5hg1s here's my personal feeling about this. There is a huge difference between climate change and the cult of climate change. Of course the climate is changing. Some is natural but some is truly man made. Anyone who remembers the massive pollution problem we had in the 60's and 70's can easily understand that chemicals don't evaporate into nothing. Everyone can agree that a cleaner world benefits everyone. The problem is the climate change idea has morphed into a cult like religion. People tend to only think about the cult members and the looney ideas they are willing to accept as truth but not pay attention to the leaders, the ones who established the cult. While these leaders demonstrate all the behaviors of the true believer, the cult was established for some personal gain by it's founder. May be power or money, but the leader is getting more out than members. When Quail started with ethanol and forced the military to convert ships andt vehicles to use ethanol, billions of dollars was wasted. When it came out that his fuel actually increased the problem it was supposed to cure as well as cause a massive chain of collateral damage along the way, it was not spoken of. The research was most likely showing this outcome but the pressure for rapid implementation overcame the best interests of the planet. Or maybe because there was so much money riding on the rapid turn over from petroleum made the outcome inconsequential. OR, all of the above. Climate change has become less actual scientific study and planning and more religion. The congregation doesn't care about whether or not the ideas are sound, whether or not the cure is worse than the treatment. Their leaders, who are becoming grossly wealthy, have given them a bible of sorts. The old testament part of this bible is the green new deal. The worshippers don't concider whether or not the information is true. Not having absolute faith brands one a heretic. As being burned at the stake is against the law, for now, the heretic has their life destroyed. Who are the modern grand inquisitors? The far left elected officials appear to be but they receive orders from those who enjoy a lovely gathering of like minds in Switzerland. The faithful, in this cult of kumbaya and organic free range brain cell apoptosis, don't consider that if the US was carbon neutral by six a.m. tomorrow it wouldn't make one carbon farm's difference. They talk about how it would set an example the rest of the world would follow. I don't know how much kool aid they have already consumed but how arrogant is it to assume the entire planet wants to be just like us? This cult has an awful lot in common with 7th grade. The faithful just can't conceive that countries like Russia, China, North Korea aren't trying as hard as they are to ensure a bright and happy planet for future generations. The citizens may want that but the governments don't give a fiddler's fart about any generation but the one they are in. They don't care if the coal plants they are firing up has fast as they can flip the switch choke the planet to death within the next forty years nor do they care if every single coal miner, their wives, children and pets die of black lung! They care about money and who they may get to kill to get more. Period. Are we supposed to just allow this country to become so corrupt and weak that another country, probably China, can just come take over? What amazes me almost most of all is the true believers in this cult are so desperate to do anything it takes to promote this idea of a new and improved type of Democratic Socialism that they have become blind to human nature. The very human nature that has prevented any type of perfection in each according to his needs, perfect equity, perfect and unending harmony is the very same human nature that has indoctrinated these very same believers/cult members/hypocrites. The leaders are simply playing the long con. The true believers probably should've had their butts whipped a couple of times and gone home from the tournament with nothing, a loser. The Church of the Permanent 7th Grader, if nothing else, has taught this lesson; If everyone wins, we all will end up loosing. What does this have to do with climate change? When the Church of the Permanent 7th Grader saw that in real life, some people loose they became terrified. They lost the ability to think with any kind of logic. The biggest part of the climate change hysteria is just like 7th grade, you're either cool, wanna be cool or the cool are punishing you because they can. Climate change should be addressed in it's order of importance, but how then can the congregation stay cool? The long con.
As someone who has lived in Texas all my life, the swing is an interesting one. 2021 was one of, if not the wettest year(s) on record. In 2022 we are in a drought.
Thanks for the info. It's very sad to see these issues. My cousin lives west of Houston and said he lost half his trees from the severe freeze they had a year ago (also when electricity went out). Now, he said the wax myrtles and even the crape myrtles are beginning to wilt without any rain for weeks. Also, lots of local vegetable gardens have been destroyed because of the heat and dryness. Evidently even if they water them artificially, the intense heat prevents germination to produce the veggie. I saw that with a corn crop in Maryland when i lived there. The tassles just dried up and very very little corn was produced that year. Please keep giving us updates about this Texas drought. Thanks.
We've seen a number of crepe myrtles being grown in Indianapolis and places south (Mooresville, Gosport, Spencer, Bloomington and especially around Jasper and Evansville) -- places you would not expect crepe myrtles to grow. Now, I realize that some of these are types which have been developed specifically to live in more northern climates, but some of these crepe myrtles are 10 to 15 feet tall, especially in southern Indiana. Most winters up here in Indy are wet with highs in the 30s to low 40s. A heavy snow happens maybe once a winter, and it melts within two to three days. I think it's been five years since we've seen a below zero temperature. We're also having a drought: most places have had half (or less) of their normal rainfall since April. I have never seen the corn crop so stunted.
Thank you for this, although it breaks my heart to see, it is important to share. The only constant is change. And things are a changing. Your work and effort is appreciated.
I am 63 yrs old and I have seen bad periods with no rain or moisture but what most people don't understand for three to five years we will still be losing trees to this drought. What the ice storm from hell didn't destroy of my 20yr old healthy, productive friut trees the drought is killing, watering them and all. The ice storm destroyed cedars that were planted when one of the biggest, Drs homes was built in 1890 here in comanche Texas. The house has been gone 70 yrs but the trees were still standing
we had almost an inch of rain on the North prong yesterday (Sunday evening) we went to the grocery store and the herds of axis were all over the highway, everything thing was moving around after the rain. like a desert waking up. tge area is adapting but old locals have been seeing their water holes go dry and stay dry for years. you can't drill endless wells and expect to have groundwater forever
Tx was scalding hot back in the 70s which is why my parents left. Its just too hot in this state. I was here in the 2011 drought right up the hwy 71 from Bastrop when it burn down that day. It was so dry, I hadn't seen a DROP of rain for pretty much a solid YEAR. But the pines in the park down completely...I remember telling my Mom how much I hated living here and wanted to go home to Georgia. Now another dam drought in 2022...today a Cardinal had heat stroke and I saved her by sitting her in the cool birdbath water untill she called off. The animals suffer too, probably more because they font have AC. God help us that live here in this harsh burnt up place.
I lived in ft worth tx. All my life. It's not just central texas. I can't remember our last rain. I can't afford enough water to keep my garden alive! I pray for rain everyday!
Yeah I moved here recently for school. It's insane how little water there is and the drought compounded with inflation means finding fruits and veggies in the grocery store is almost impossible. I'm thankful it isn't as bad as in Nuevo León.
As someone who lives just outside of Austin, even though I don't like rules like this- I'm thinking there should be a cap on how many people can live in drought areas. We only have ONE big lake to hold the water needed for Austin AND the surrounding areas. ONLY ONE!! And it's going to get really, really dry. Meanwhile, developers are still building large communities where they will be relying on that same lake for all the water! It's just poor planning! Their answer is to DRILL MORE WELLS! NO PROBLEM! Except that's VERY WRONG. And it WILL BE a huge problem. Texas runs on limestone aquifers. If you suck up all the water underground, the lake will simply run dry faster. There's just too many people here in Central Tx. now...
@Jasen Vernor If you feel you need to put a label on it, call it whatever you want. I don't care. Not having enough natural resources to support a community is an actual problem. It's not an argument. It's a simple fact. When the bus is full, then the bus is full. Those who didn't get a seat will simply have move to the next bus.
@Jasen Vernor It was our direct experience living in Texas from 2004 to 2015 that certain types of people -- gays, lesbians, people of color, non-fundamentalist Christians, non-Christians, Democrats, liberals and progressives -- were actively encouraged to move out of Texas. I got the hint when someone did $6000 damage to my car -- breaking all the car windows, denting in the doors and the hood -- because I had an "Obama 2012" bumper sticker on my car, and they left a note saying that "Obama f.ers get out of Texas". I have found a rather astonishing number of Texas ex-pats in the city where I now live -- enough that we have a well-attended "Texas night" where we share the foods we loved in Texas -- who have shared similar stories. Talk all you want about "virtue signaling", but we don't see a lot of virtue going on in Texas right now. If you're stupid enough to pack ten million people into an area which doesn't have the water resources to handle a population of ten million people -- well, then, *you pretty much deserve what you get.*
Wrong - We have the Edwards Aquifer and the following lakes - Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, and Lake Austin make up the Highland Lakes and hidden gems abound throughout the region. However, I have to agree with you that what made central Texas special are the hill country and beautiful clear waters of the highland lakes, rivers and creeks and less people. Now with the influx from people moving here from out out state - it has changed many magical things about Austin for the worse - local Democratic ran government offering huge tax free incentives to attract big corporations moving here greatly increased population, traffic, housing prices, taxes and crime. . . . and they are still coming. Bigger is not always better.
@@paulweaver5529 Yes, you said it better than I about the population growth, and all the reasons for it. I completely agree. As for the list of lakes you mentioned, it's true, most of those lakes are sort of close by. But they rarely share their water with us. Right? Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, and Lake Marble Falls are all North of the Austin area. It seems like it takes an act of congress to have them open their gates to let the water flow downstream. Maybe that's all to do with the rice growers, and the politics that surround the water rights? The more I think of it, an act of congress might be the exact thing that it does take to have those gates opened... I don't really keep track of those arguments. I just know their water usually stays up North. I live in a small lake town on the North Shore of Travis, and we tend notice when we're blessed with shared water. Lake Austin, really that particular stretch of water is all part of Lake Travis. And I might be mistaken, but I don't think any water is distributed from that section for residential use. Mostly that water is kept at a certain level to insure the upper crust has a nice water view at the edge of their green lawns. As for The Edward's Aquifer, well... Sadly, with all the new wells being drilled for all the new developments, places like Leander, and other cities skirting Austin, I do believe the Aquifer will be soon be suffering greatly because of it, if it isn't already. Not to mention the change in the weather this Summer! With temps reaching 112° there are actually people STILL trying to keep their water guzzling lawns from going dormant! I suspect many new arrivals to the area don't have the first clue that during droughts grass lawns should be allowed to go dormant. The green grass will return when the rain water allows such a treat in our dry Texas climate. Bermuda grass is miraculous that way. Green grass really shouldn't be the norm, not for public places, or residential homes, yet there they are, manicured to the nines. Letting the good times flow could very well be a thing of the past with Austin and the water. Maybe this Summer weather will open their eyes & they'll all move away? (Wishful thinking I'm sure...) I heard the arid West Texas desert weather will be permanently moving East to become our very close neighbor. If that's true, these increasing Summer temperatures could very well be a permanent thing. Even if a lot of the people did move away, the damage will have already been done. I've heard others call the type of development happening around here as: "The Human Tumor". I must admit, I'm starting to agree with that description as I witness the enveloping destruction that never seems to stop. Ok, I got a bit dark here at the end. Except... I just can't think of how to look at it any other way.
We go through this type of drought every 8-10 years. Then we get an abundance of rain and guess what? The lakes fill back up and all is good. I have been here since 74 and have seen this cycle over and over.
Howdy boss, John here from El Paso......just discovered your channel....yes. most disconcerting for the loss of a beautiful place. never had the opportunity, although it is a beautiful area in its current state. Texas and Texans are resilient. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Deep in the heart of Texas baby...see, ya next year. Thank you. Post a lot, ima sub., 🙏
The last time I saw the Medina river near Bandera like that was in 2011. It's sad to see how brutal this drought is. Earlier this year I was at the Ssbinal river in Lost Maples and there was no flow at all.
Right-wing talking points have changed from completely denying climate change to calling it a "drought." As if the pollution from 7 billion people doesn't affect the planet.
Scary part is the last three or four years we've had huge amounts of rain what led up to 2011 was 3 or 4 years of drought and then a mega drop this is all happened because of the heat and no rain all in one year
This is a great video. Throughout my life I've seen this happen time and time again. The area Southwest of San Antonio seems especially vulnerable but even here in Houston there was a lot of damage during the last major drought.
It's not just the absence of ground water that is killing these trees, but the triple digit temperatures and the fast winds blowing on them similar to a hair dryer against moist hair. So, there's not any moisture in the air that they could leech off of, but the hot winds doing just the opposite; evaporating moisture out of them.
every year is triple digit temperatures in texas lmao and this is a cooler summer than normal, 111 was the hottest this year, 119 two years ago, 126 15 years ago. It's a la nina year, el nino is around the corner + plenty of rain ... God people are dumb
There's probably someone working at the Lost Maples or at headquarters in Austin that knows exactly what the drought of 2011 did to the trees. Or the County Extension office. The person with that info could be on their way to retirement. Would be cool if you could capture it.
The climate of central Texas is often drought interrupted by an occasional flood. It's why Texas has a large number of reservoirs, but too many people have moved in over the last 5-10 years. In Bell County, the swim beaches of both Stillhouse Hollow and Belton Lakes are closed and the grass is very crunchy with high wildfire risks. It takes a tropical storm or hurricane in the summer to break a drought, but most curve northeast quickly into Louisiana and Arkansas if they hit the Texas coast, or a prolonged weather pattern pulling both Gulf and Pacific moisture in the fall or spring.
Howdy friends. Oakmont Park, lake Belton here. Raised on the Pedernales of lake Travis .. May The Spirit of Peace be with you... Lol, I'm old enough to remember the 80's, came home on leave, and cried at the sight of Travis.... Ya know, I've come to ask that my cup of faith be filled, and my steps be guided... Big hugs. Proverbs 27:17 Would like to hear from y'all dean
Wow, all the times I've been to lost maples I've never seen it that dry. Like you said there's always at least a little bit of water somewhere. But now money rock was dry, the Grotto was dry, but was really shocked me was the very beginning with the river. Hopefully we get a break soon. I've been traveling this summer and this same thing is happening in other states as well. Some just as bad if not worse than texas. Rain and water brings life and without it, life slowly wilts away
Here in Southern California, some Pine trees that were planted back in the 1980s that used to flourish are dying out. Granted, there's lots of beautiful drought tolerant trees to pick from, but it's still telling.
First they told us that climate change is a hoax... now that we are all seeing the lakes dry up and mass wildfires with our own eyes they know that they can't say nothing is happening anymore so climate change deniers all decided to change their talking point to call it a "drought" as if pollution from 7 billion humans and billions of running cars couldn't affect the climate. Climate change deniers are truly shameless and are clearly motivated by money from fossil fuels.
Texas underground is like Swiss cheese, I'm sure you know this. When I was a kid, 62 years ago, you could stand in most creek beds and feel the springs bubbling up between your toes. You could wander around the hills in the hill Country and see little seeps or small springs just oozing water. Texas gets hot and there have always been mini droughts somewhere, every summer. Until Texas became infected with progress. At least that's what it was called. Cramming 600 houses on a less than 150 acres isn't progress. That's what has been happening across my part of Texas that is the Edwards Aquifer and recharge zone. I remember all the arguments on the news about the state and county authorities wanting to put very strict limits, almost exclusion for any building or development over the recharge zone. Money won. The trees and some plants used to be able to withstand fairly long periods of drought because their roots could go down far enough to find water trapped there or some underground spring or seepage. Now that progress has been sucking water out of the ground at a furious pace for almost 3 decades, the water tables have dropped or just outright disappeared. And the reasons for such ridiculous water usage, just by looking at the things people moving here can't live without can tell exactly why things are now having a hard time hanging on. 1. If you count up all the new homes built in San Antonio and surrounding counties who's suburbs make-up San Antonio in the last 10-15 years. Each one has at least 2 toilets, even if only 3 people live there. How many 3 bedroom homes have 2 bathrooms plus half bath? People now days can not even imagine living in a house without a master bath. Why? Status, guests don't see your bathroom cause it might be messy, some idea that sharing a bathroom is an unacceptable loss of privacy. These extra bathrooms are concidered progress. How many million gallons of water, water that could be used for drinking and that could be still underground and able to support life, how many millions of gallons of water are trapped in toilet tanks that aren't actually necessary? If these are cleaned weekly, how many gallons get flushed just to clean the toilet that wasn't anything more than status symbol? 2. Car wash. There may be places where water is plentiful but not Texas. How many people wash their vehicle weekly? Why? To look pretty. 3. Lawn maintenance. If you are to busy to take care or pay someone to take care of your yard then you don't need a yard. Moving a hose is so time consuming blah blah. Texas, contrary to the brochure, isn't designed for large green lawns. The old folks used to talk about "sweeping" the yard. There wasn't any lawn and they wanted to keep the trashy weeds, tree twigs etc cleaned upp. Texas isn't suffering any great climate change, there's just to many people sucking out the aquifers and who moved here without a clear knowledge of the weather patterns. The seasons are rarely the same for more than a year or two in a row. They can vary drastically from year to year.
This summer is so much hotter than 2011. San Antonio is only 7 days from tying the number of 100+ days recorded in 2011 with one day of July, all of August, and then September left too. And 9 days from tying the alltime record set in 2009.
actually there is, maybe not for those trees but for our feature. We can educate ourselves on climate change and push for sustainable and renewable resources.
@@joseguzman5875 Good luck in Texas. San Antonio has had its six worst summers all since 1998 but no one wants to believe global warming is real out here.
@@homerthompson416 true, as a Texan, it sucks, most people here don’t believe in climate change, and when they do, they say that is part of economic development and nothing we can do about it😔
In light of this drought, I will quote the Texas patriarchs of history and beseech everyone to follow their example. "Earnestly pray for rain." May God have mercy on us and bless Texas!
@@redarmysoja 62 years. This is uncomfortable, certainly. However, you'll know it's a real Texas drought when families are sharing bath water. No joke. Seen it before, I'll see it again. People truly don't understand how precious water is. When you live through a "If it's yellow" year or two, you develope a whole new perspective on the value of things.
Appreciate you covering this, seems most Texans aren’t addressing this. I’m in central Texas. Our drought is truly exceptional in 2022. The rains in May never came. I waited for the local peaches from Fredericksburg to be sold at HEB this year in June, the few that came in were hard, dry and not ripe, then they pulled them off the shelves. The watermelons too are unripe, nothing like we usually get from the Texas grown farms. I read we had many crop failures in our state. Anyone else notice the produce quality decline?
I'm pretty sure Fredericksburg has a raindome because while everybody else including us got inches of rain they got nothing every time a storm comes near there it splits or only hits the north side of the town we only got .76 inches of rain in July but for just how dry it's been lately the fact that we were able to pick up that much in July us crazy the entire Hill Country picked up half an inch up to 3 inches of rain in July yet east of 281 got nothing almost other than traces of a little rain and everyone really appreciated that one day of a lot of rain as we didn't get any rain in July after that and we probably won't get much in August if any rain at all
I’m in the DFW area and the watermelons sold here have all been a miss…unsweet and whitish light pink on the inside…once cut they go bad w/in a day! Peaches and nectarines never ripen. Usually a cut watermelon can last up to three days with firm meat inside. Dirt up this way is dust…I know here we have burn bans; water restrictions and no charcoal grilling. It sucks.
@@Hotrodford I've thought that, too. I read that the Gulf is much warmer than normal. I can't help but thinking all that heat building up is brewing a big storm down the road.
@@oldgamerchick me either nor have I seen them. White tail deer I’ve seen and I’m feeding them and any other animal. Raccoons, possums are coming up to eat my cats food too and drink water. I leave fresh water for all the animals as the stock tanks are all dried up. Even the prickly pear cactus is shriveling, all of the grass and weeds are dead. It’s the perfect fuel for wildfires. The bad thing about this drought and hot weather is that it increases the outbreak of rabies.
@@oldgamerchick I forgot to mention that one time a few years ago I found my 25 year old nephew passed out outside from heat exhaustion I don’t know how long he was laying out there nor does he. I just happened to walk outside from the house and i saw what appeared as a body on the ground. He woke up in a stumbling daze. I immediately got him inside put him in front of an air conditioner and gave him cool water and a cool shower to lower his temperature. Heat is not something to play with.
Blanco county here. I'm worried we're going to loose multiple trees. I can't hand water them all or enough. A dry spring here means a brutal summer. This spring was actually hotter/worse than 2011. And it's just the beginning of the summer.
it's either a la nina year or an el nino year, not rocket science, and raking the forest, something which has been done for thousands of years, is an effective mitigation against forest fire
@@JeremyRobertWalker I have 153 acres of bluff line and copperheads that is due a good raking If you want the job? I was going to just do a controlled burn on it but I’m sure you could rake it for me for cheaper. Are you just raking these leaves back a few feet and then raking more in their place or are you going to bag them up for me? I would bring a couple hundred thousand trash bags if so.
Your video really made me sad today. I live in a part of Central Texas that is east of the severe drought by just a few miles. This video brought home to me just how bad it can get to be anywhere. Makes me wonder if our part of the country is destined to becme the Sahara of the USA. Lord I hope not.
I live in San Antonio and this drought is awful. I never even thought about the rivers and lakes being this dry! Not only is it because of no rain but the weeks of 100+ degrees we're enduring. And that started in May. Since then, in my area, we've had 6 hours of rain about a month ago and 2 days ago a 10 minute shower. We're expected to have 3 days of rain starting tomorrow. I can't image what destruction that will do. It's a blessing and a curse. This is a well put together, informative video. I never knew much about Bandera and now want to visit. Maybe after some rain.
This is very sad to see. So much beauty there. Great video though. Excellent content. Loved the wilderness and the history of the towns. Very interesting! I do hope you get some rain soon. I'll send some from us here in Washington state.🌧⛈🌦
They should look into all the regenerative ways to restore the land. There's a guy that's greening Australia! Slow down the water, rotational grazing,. Digging trenches for the water to soak into the landsca etc etc. There are so many options.
I put compost/sand mixture all over my lawn. My city takes in food waste and lawn waste and composts it. Then they deliver by truck. I also use a rachio sprinkler controller for cycle and soak. Helps a lot
The only bright side is how fast that area can bounce back. We had a boat on Lake Travis around 2014, the lake was so low we had to walk down into the lake like 1/4 mile to the marina. Then in 2015 we had some pretty big systems over the hill country and the marina raised back up to normal levels in about 2 weeks. Pretty incredible.
Thanks for info, appreciated! Maybe consider expanding your drought watch to the entire area experiencing drought. Past the artificial state lines which nature ignores. The scope of the problem is gynormous and long term adjustments will be equally large. We're very much all in the same boat... Thanks again for info
I moved out of Texas in 2015 after watching the 2008, 11 and 14 droughts. Lake Travis was 120 ft low. Government had sold the water from the Bee caves water tank to the highest bidder downstream and left those folks without water to bathe their children in. Government trying to take over people's water rights; a friend had to sell 10 acres of 100 on Onion Creek to pay for attorneys to fight the state. 60 mi long Lake Travis and all boat ramps were closed; ramps no longer reached the water. Some lake businesses went under. I still have a truck where the molding melted around the stereo; I kept my windows cracked and used a windshield sunscreen and the heat STILL melted my truck. It's sad to see it back like that again. Now the cold is coming once again and that will kill off more trees. People need water to grow food and survive. Clean water. You better take this stuff seriously folks. You want food or do you want green grass. Decide. At what point do individuals become self-sufficient. Prepare.
Some trees drop their sap down into the rooting system during a severe drought for self-preservation! If one sees the leaves turning colors as in a normal fall this is what they could be doing to save themselves as the rooting system is a PRIORITY! I have seen them do this in a severe drought here in S. Texas and was told by the elders what I shared with you above! They also told me that severe droughts ARE cyclical and sometimes with many years between them! Usually, if the tree does drop its sap, one can see it sprout its leaves AGAIN in the early Spring, weather permitting! Also if some of its branches die it will produce new ones while of course needing time, water and nutrients! Thank you, Jesus!
Heartbreaking drought. I have been in Texas for all my life. 2011 was bad. The 98-2001 were bad years. In Texas there is no "normal rainfall" and there hasn't been for all my life. It seems it's either drought or flood.
I remember in the 60’s water restrictions in Odessa, Texas. No washing cars or watering lawns. Walking across the Pecos river and not getting your ankles wet. Dry brown grass, short mesquite trees and 106* days. You have good years and bad years. The people moving into Texas have no idea of water conservation.
It’s a chance to go in clean up the river bed. Metal detector and get all the trash out. So when the water comes back it’s ready for it. The rain will return.
Yup! This sucks and hope it ends soon! After months of trying to get my bass boat back on the water, I was finally ready to test this weekend and couldn't find an open boat ramp. I know there are bigger issues but it speaks volumes to the water disappearing.
It’s sad to see the beautiful hill country in that condition, down here in Corpus Christi we don’t realize how bad it really is because all we suffer with is a brown lawn… PRAY FOR RAIN
The biggest driver of climate in the US Southwest is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. When it is in its cool or La Nina phase (the Eastern Pacific is cool and trade winds blow from east to west) as it has been for the last three years there is drought in the Western and Southwestern US. While there is significant Western US drought during the La Nina phase, there is significant rain and moisture in Asia (like the big floods in China the last three years). During the warm or El Nino phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation things reverse and we experience moisture in the US West and Southwest and drought in Eastern Asia. This climate pattern has existed for tens of thousands of years.
So digging about and releasing carbon the earth spent millions of years burying is no factor? It seems the drought in blue states is caused by too many people and golf course's, swimming pools etc. and in red states its the pacific Decadal oscillation. I guess we get to pick and choose what science we accept.
Susan, My family and y have been praying for rain for many months, this past Sunday (7/10/2022) we had 20 minutes of rainfall. We will continue praying for more rain, in the name of Jesus Christ we will have rain.
I continue to pray for heat wave and drought to end and it starts here. I prayed yesterday for 70 degrees. This morning it was 70 degrees! Instead of 80+ which it has been. Do not be discouraged but give thanks and more will be given.❣
This year the world has seen droughts in so many countries as Europe, although the drought in texas looks really bad. Thanks for your tour along the dry river bed. Wonderful restaurant where you had lunch. A good share and take care Beth and Simon ❤️ 🙋
We have a water crisis in Texas that only rain can completely cure but we're spending a Billion with Operation Lone Star which is helping no one . The priorities of this state are so perverted by useless politics. I live 250 miles northwest of there and it's terrible , 104 at 1230 .
Welcome to Texas, ive lived here my whole life and i can tell you no matter how hard you all want to make this some devastating unheard of weird disaster, Sorry, its just good ole Normal Texas weather ive seen worse years ive seen better years, certainly doesnt make it any better or easier its just how our Climate here is. and always has been. My 82 year old Mom always said, every drought in Texas is followed by a flood , pull your pantys up folks because theirs one coming.
So we should just roll with the punches, but if the punch is so powerful it causes too much damage to recover from. Ranchers can only lose so many cattle before they go broke.
@@rneedham667 that's crazy. I have a cousin that has land in Canton.... About an hour and a half east of fort worth. He's having to sell cows, can't grow anything in his garden. He's been living there 45 years. Says this is the worst he's seen it.
San Antonio hasn't had an inch of rain since February 3rd and between then and now the only day we had even half an inch was when we got 0.53 inches on June 28th. An almost completely rainless spring which had us into the 100s by the second week of May. Most of May felt like a typical August, our June was basically 98-106 most of the way, and July this year has been worse than August 2011 was. Dreading what August 2022 holds.
No it has not. Only a few smaller regions in the west were affected until this year. In fact 3 of the wettest years on record happened in the last 6 years in Texas. Thats part of why this is so scary it only took one spring/summer without rain to put us this far behind and basically kill everything. I work as an Orchard Maker in the Houston area and it was not this bad in 2011. It's basically impossible to plant trees right now.
@@luchacefox259 I farm wheat & cotton in the NW part of TX. When I say there has been a 5 yr drought, that's a fact. Houston is near the Gulf coast where drought conditions are rare. Widen your horizons... TX is a big state. The western third is drought striken. Haven't seen normal rainfall here since 2015.
@@rt3box6tx74 Once again it's you needs to expand your horizons outside of Lubbock Tx. My cousin is the biggest cotton farmer in the Panhandle and he has had record crops 3 of the last 6 years with the best rains they have seen in decades. Most of the state was fine until this year. The central and west part of the state is a desert and always has been. No one should be living there anyway and it's not a drought if you go to a desert and then have no rain. Sell your land and move before it gets worse and there are no options.
I work outside in Texas pretty much every day for the last 10 years, and the heat has never bothered me. I’ve had heat exhaustion twice this month, never been like this
Mid 1980s I waxed my '55 Chevy while Texas had 17 days of over 100* weather. Get used to it or move further north. This is Summer in Texas. This is not climate change. I guess 'Remember the Alamo' had air conditioners? It's not the weather that has changed. It's the non Texans who have moved here.
If it happened before mean it is getting worse. In the past, agriculture are not aggresively pursued like now. They drained the water for crops which make it worst then before.
The Pacific Northwest is known for its mild wet winters, but in recent years we haven’t been getting much rain, but we have been seeing extreme cold unlike anything I have ever seen in my nearly 40 years living here. The dry cold winters create extreme fire hazards by time June rolls around and we spend all summer living in a thick blanket of smoke. Luckily, so far this year we have only been getting a hazy layer of smoke but we still have a couple months to go be for my area will be safe from wildfire danger.
Welcome to the new climate change people! It's not just us that's having a drought and heat problem! England, Korea, Australia and everywhere around the world is having a same problem...
And what is causing this "climate change"? Overuse? Drought? Gee, we've seen this before haven't we? What makes you think higher taxes will change anything? It's a con.
@dreamstar, Texas has traditionally been the bulkwart, bastion of "red dead republicans". They don't believe in "climate change", that's just "liberal propaganda", just like "conservation, & environmental health". We gotta state office in the, "Peoples Republic of Austin" for that anyways, the "TCEQ", they'll handle it." Republicans only believe in, "spells". Right now, we just happen to be in a "dry-spell", nothing to worry about. Lords' in heaven, and we're in Texas, all's well. Pop-open a col' beer. We've had a few Democratic Governors in the 80's (Mark White, & Ann Richards) but they couldn't do anything either. The Texas House has always been red. Long as the Cowboys are playing, republicans' stay in control, and they got lots'a guns, everything's good under tha' hood! "Dry spells gonna break one a' these days. You'll see, I hope. Besides, business ain't never been better for the bottled beverages companies like Ozarka. Wal-Mart's got 'em on sale. Construction industry is boomin'. Y'all be sure an go ta' church, an put in your tithes so the Lord'll give us some'a that good-rain. Grapevine, and Lewisville Lakes have been low lately, cai'nt put-out my boat ta' check-up on my, "trau't lines". I tell ya whut, I blame all this, "e-llegul emmagrashun" from all them other states on them democrats. Bobby, go yell at yer momma to get Raul back to workin' on that lawn." This couch needs some layin' on.
As a Texas resident, I thankfully live in an area that's not badly affected by the drought. Even so, I still mostly have native/drought resistant plants, and only water at sunrise or sundown via drip irrigation or hand-watering, just enough to keep them alive, while my lawn is so dry it crunches under my feet. It just ticks me off so much knowing about the drought issue, but seeing other people in the neighborhood have their sprinklers on in the hot afternoons with lawns that are really thick and green, wasting SO much water in the process, not caring where that water comes from or how badly it's needed farther downstream.
In Central Florida usually it rains every day in the summer, not the last few years. On my street we see rain clouds in the distance but then the rain does not fall on are street.
And why aren’t they seeding clouds and creating much needed rain? There are so many company’s that specialize in controlling the weather. Where are they now?
i live in webster tx, south of hosuton and we were in extreme drought (downtown houston was only severe to moderate) and it didnt rain for 29 days during June. it rained on the 26th of May and then it didnt rain till towards the end of June. Some rain went past us and rained just a mile north. half our garden died. luckily the hottest it got was just 103 (12 degrees above average) but thats only 4 degrees off from the all time record. being near the coast helps a lot with moderating the heat a bit. galveston actually got up to 97 at the hottest point which is about 9 degrees above average for them. thankfully were getting a wet november
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My family has been here from before it was Texas. This is what people native to this area have been screaming about but nobody listens. In their defense, it's hard to hear when you have dollar bills crammed in your ears. This part of Texas is being developed at an unsustainable rate. There isn't enough water. The people moving here have no understanding of the true effects of drought. Unless you have lived through it, seen wildlife, your stock dead from the drought, you can't comprehend a time when no, zero water flows when you turn on the tap. This drought isn't 100% responsible for dried up places like the Medina. The San Antonio paper had an article saying that the aquifer was very nearly at stage 4 restrictions but San Antonio would keep them at stage 2 for a while longer.
This part of Texas has thousands of springs but every year more and more dry up because of the increasing greed of developers and all those connected to it. We have been warned for 3 decades that I remember, of the increasing speed of the aquifers demise. All the plans to slow down or limit growth, in order to preserve our water, seem to evaporate faster than the water when money is involved.
I've about decided that we should go ahead and start planning the funeral service for the Hill Country. As long as people come through and their eyes bug while saying "Look at all this land and there is nothing on it!" and the organizations, committees and departments, that were established for the purpose of protecting the water, just giggle and crumble when money is waved at them, when this development frenzy reaches critical mass then our aquifer will be no more. The carpetbag developers will have moved on and the Hill Country will be just that. Barren, brown hills.
Progress is the new metaphor for pillage.
This is sad😔 I was born and raised in Chicago and I always dreamed of living in Texas. Been here for over 13 years and I thought 2011 was a fluke...but this is the new normal. I really don't wanna leave...I don't see myself living in any other state 😒
@@Jedidyah777 1hurricane will completely reverse the sitation
@@huckstirred7112 I just told a friend of mine that yesterday...I don't wish devastation on anyone but a hurricane will do the job
@@huckstirred7112 yes and no. Have you ever bought a bag of potting soil, get home and start trying to get your plants going but the soil almost repels the water? It takes some soaking time or a little dab of dish soap in the water before the dirt will take in the water.
Here, in the Hill Country, the dirt is powdery for at least 12 inches. That's just when I quit digging. With a hurricane, you can get anywhere from a half to six inches of rain an hour. Sounds terrific but it's not. The water doesn't have time to soak in. Because of the terrain the water starts to flow pretty quickly. The driest soil tends to float so you get tremendous erosion. Flash flooding washes away part of the top soil, the water that does manage to soak in isn't very much. It doesn't take but a half dozen cactus, three or four days of temperatures over one hundred and you are back to square one minus some soil.
There is a temporary relief for wildlife but until the actual weather pattern changes and we get some weeks of slow, steady rain, this will continue. There are parts of Texas where the terrain is vastly different and heavy rain effects those parts differently. You can find terrain like almost any other state somewhere in Texas. I did say almost any state.
I've only lived in Texas for 62 years so I haven't seen everything. Going by what I have seen, our only hope until winter is hard on us is to hope that when the geese start flying south, maybe they will be good enough to pee as they fly over.
@@AVToth sir you are correct .The right media did a video might have been 2 years ago on what he called the grand solar minimum .He said that this weather pattern we are in is going to be around for a decade .He talked about how many farms will not survive .I told him he was full of shit .But everything he predicted has come true .Spring to wet to get crops in ,when the crops are put in it will get roasting hot and no rain .and early frost . yea I am worried to my friend
I’ve lived in Texas my entire life. I remember how brutal 1980 and 2011 were. But this summer. I dunno. The intense heat/temperatures we are having somehow seem different. The sun seems so much more intense. And I’m not the only one that’s noticed this.
!980 was bad up in the Ozark foothills. We had 25 pair on 360 acres. No grass or vegitation as high as a cow could reach. Every day I cut cull trees. The cattle ate ebery leaf and the smaller twigs. When they heard the chainsaw start up they came a running. We bailed rice stubble behind the combine for winter hay. They irrigate rice and thats all that grew.
I am with you , after 63 years as a native Texan this is different just a few minutes outside and any exposed skin is burning the UV Rays are greatly enhanced , no matter how much I water my garden the plants wilt everyday from the intense UV rays beating down on them and here 30 miles from the Gulf the pecan trees are brown all the way to the ground in a normal summer just a little at the top turn brown !
Might be evidence of a coming Pole Shift, might not 🤷♂️
It's called climate change.
Worst drought I have ever experienced! I went to sell cattle in Cleburne and had to wait in line over in hour.
I'm from Texas, now living in Indianapolis, and I remember the 2011 drought. People who haven't experienced D4 drought the way we have experienced it in Texas have no idea how destructive and devastating it can be. This is a well-done video, but it makes me sad to see areas that I deeply love in such stress.
The long-range forecast is pessimistic: a third, consecutive La Niña will develop this winter, which means little, if any rain for the desert Southwest, including Texas and Oklahoma. Worse, if the Gulf Stream collapses, La Niñas may become a permanent fixture of Southwestern climate.
It’s crazy God and Mother Nature gave us so much rain last year our yard and pasture was a lake, alligators coming into yards it was so wet. Now drier than a popcorn fart. I remember 2011 it was bad.
If development had been controlled there would be drought but it wouldn't be this bad. The springs from the aquifer used to keep at least some water running but those springs are long gone.
Don't worry 7 billion people couldn't possibly affect the planet so let's do nothing to fight climate change!
Climate change deniers know they can't try to tell us that nothing is happening since we can all see the lakes drying up and mass wildfires with our own eyes... so now you guys changed your talking point to call it a "drought." I see what you guys did there. Denying climate change is a not so subtle way of telling us you support fossil fuel industries.
@@user-uy3eq5hg1s here's my personal feeling about this. There is a huge difference between climate change and the cult of climate change. Of course the climate is changing. Some is natural but some is truly man made. Anyone who remembers the massive pollution problem we had in the 60's and 70's can easily understand that chemicals don't evaporate into nothing. Everyone can agree that a cleaner world benefits everyone.
The problem is the climate change idea has morphed into a cult like religion. People tend to only think about the cult members and the looney ideas they are willing to accept as truth but not pay attention to the leaders, the ones who established the cult. While these leaders demonstrate all the behaviors of the true believer, the cult was established for some personal gain by it's founder. May be power or money, but the leader is getting more out than members.
When Quail started with ethanol and forced the military to convert ships andt vehicles to use ethanol, billions of dollars was wasted. When it came out that his fuel actually increased the problem it was supposed to cure as well as cause a massive chain of collateral damage along the way, it was not spoken of. The research was most likely showing this outcome but the pressure for rapid implementation overcame the best interests of the planet. Or maybe because there was so much money riding on the rapid turn over from petroleum made the outcome inconsequential. OR, all of the above.
Climate change has become less actual scientific study and planning and more religion. The congregation doesn't care about whether or not the ideas are sound, whether or not the cure is worse than the treatment. Their leaders, who are becoming grossly wealthy, have given them a bible of sorts. The old testament part of this bible is the green new deal. The worshippers don't concider whether or not the information is true. Not having absolute faith brands one a heretic. As being burned at the stake is against the law, for now, the heretic has their life destroyed. Who are the modern grand inquisitors? The far left elected officials appear to be but they receive orders from those who enjoy a lovely gathering of like minds in Switzerland.
The faithful, in this cult of kumbaya and organic free range brain cell apoptosis, don't consider that if the US was carbon neutral by six a.m. tomorrow it wouldn't make one carbon farm's difference. They talk about how it would set an example the rest of the world would follow. I don't know how much kool aid they have already consumed but how arrogant is it to assume the entire planet wants to be just like us? This cult has an awful lot in common with 7th grade.
The faithful just can't conceive that countries like Russia, China, North Korea aren't trying as hard as they are to ensure a bright and happy planet for future generations. The citizens may want that but the governments don't give a fiddler's fart about any generation but the one they are in. They don't care if the coal plants they are firing up has fast as they can flip the switch choke the planet to death within the next forty years nor do they care if every single coal miner, their wives, children and pets die of black lung!
They care about money and who they may get to kill to get more. Period.
Are we supposed to just allow this country to become so corrupt and weak that another country, probably China, can just come take over? What amazes me almost most of all is the true believers in this cult are so desperate to do anything it takes to promote this idea of a new and improved type of Democratic Socialism that they have become blind to human nature. The very human nature that has prevented any type of perfection in each according to his needs, perfect equity, perfect and unending harmony is the very same human nature that has indoctrinated these very same believers/cult members/hypocrites.
The leaders are simply playing the long con. The true believers probably should've had their butts whipped a couple of times and gone home from the tournament with nothing, a loser. The Church of the Permanent 7th Grader, if nothing else, has taught this lesson; If everyone wins, we all will end up loosing.
What does this have to do with climate change? When the Church of the Permanent 7th Grader saw that in real life, some people loose they became terrified. They lost the ability to think with any kind of logic. The biggest part of the climate change hysteria is just like 7th grade, you're either cool, wanna be cool or the cool are punishing you because they can. Climate change should be addressed in it's order of importance, but how then can the congregation stay cool?
The long con.
As someone who has lived in Texas all my life, the swing is an interesting one. 2021 was one of, if not the wettest year(s) on record. In 2022 we are in a drought.
Thanks for the info. It's very sad to see these issues. My cousin lives west of Houston and said he lost half his trees from the severe freeze they had a year ago (also when electricity went out). Now, he said the wax myrtles and even the crape myrtles are beginning to wilt without any rain for weeks. Also, lots of local vegetable gardens have been destroyed because of the heat and dryness. Evidently even if they water them artificially, the intense heat prevents germination to produce the veggie. I saw that with a corn crop in Maryland when i lived there. The tassles just dried up and very very little corn was produced that year. Please keep giving us updates about this Texas drought. Thanks.
We've seen a number of crepe myrtles being grown in Indianapolis and places south (Mooresville, Gosport, Spencer, Bloomington and especially around Jasper and Evansville) -- places you would not expect crepe myrtles to grow.
Now, I realize that some of these are types which have been developed specifically to live in more northern climates, but some of these crepe myrtles are 10 to 15 feet tall, especially in southern Indiana.
Most winters up here in Indy are wet with highs in the 30s to low 40s. A heavy snow happens maybe once a winter, and it melts within two to three days. I think it's been five years since we've seen a below zero temperature.
We're also having a drought: most places have had half (or less) of their normal rainfall since April. I have never seen the corn crop so stunted.
Thank you for this, although it breaks my heart to see, it is important to share.
The only constant is change. And things are a changing.
Your work and effort is appreciated.
Weather modification do some research this is all being done on purpose these are 21st-century weapons!!!!
The locust are coming.
@@nenamart5272 I have seen the Enemy, and it is Us.
I am 63 yrs old and I have seen bad periods with no rain or moisture but what most people don't understand for three to five years we will still be losing trees to this drought. What the ice storm from hell didn't destroy of my 20yr old healthy, productive friut trees the drought is killing, watering them and all. The ice storm destroyed cedars that were planted when one of the biggest, Drs homes was built in 1890 here in comanche Texas. The house has been gone 70 yrs but the trees were still standing
we had almost an inch of rain on the North prong yesterday (Sunday evening) we went to the grocery store and the herds of axis were all over the highway, everything thing was moving around after the rain. like a desert waking up. tge area is adapting but old locals have been seeing their water holes go dry and stay dry for years. you can't drill endless wells and expect to have groundwater forever
Tx was scalding hot back in the 70s which is why my parents left. Its just too hot in this state.
I was here in the 2011 drought right up the hwy 71 from Bastrop when it burn down that day.
It was so dry, I hadn't seen a DROP of rain for pretty much a solid YEAR.
But the pines in the park down completely...I remember telling my Mom how much I hated living here and wanted to go home to Georgia.
Now another dam drought in 2022...today a Cardinal had heat stroke and I saved her by sitting her in the cool birdbath water untill she called off. The animals suffer too, probably more because they font have AC.
God help us that live here in this harsh burnt up place.
It's too hot to drink beer...that's how bad it is.
That speaks volumes
Huh?
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beer...the poor mans` drug
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I lived in ft worth tx. All my life. It's not just central texas. I can't remember our last rain. I can't afford enough water to keep my garden alive! I pray for rain everyday!
Yeah I moved here recently for school. It's insane how little water there is and the drought compounded with inflation means finding fruits and veggies in the grocery store is almost impossible.
I'm thankful it isn't as bad as in Nuevo León.
Some relief is coming.
As someone who lives just outside of Austin, even though I don't like rules like this-
I'm thinking there should be a cap on how many people can live in drought areas.
We only have ONE big lake to hold the water needed for Austin AND the surrounding areas.
ONLY ONE!!
And it's going to get really, really dry.
Meanwhile, developers are still building large communities where they will be relying on that same lake for all the water!
It's just poor planning!
Their answer is to
DRILL MORE WELLS!
NO PROBLEM!
Except that's VERY WRONG.
And it WILL BE a huge problem.
Texas runs on limestone aquifers.
If you suck up all the water underground, the lake will simply run dry faster.
There's just too many people here in Central Tx. now...
@Jasen Vernor
If you feel you need to put a label on it, call it whatever you want.
I don't care.
Not having enough natural resources to support a community is an actual problem.
It's not an argument.
It's a simple fact.
When the bus is full,
then the bus is full.
Those who didn't get a seat will simply have move to the next bus.
@Jasen Vernor It was our direct experience living in Texas from 2004 to 2015 that certain types of people -- gays, lesbians, people of color, non-fundamentalist Christians, non-Christians, Democrats, liberals and progressives -- were actively encouraged to move out of Texas.
I got the hint when someone did $6000 damage to my car -- breaking all the car windows, denting in the doors and the hood -- because I had an "Obama 2012" bumper sticker on my car, and they left a note saying that "Obama f.ers get out of Texas".
I have found a rather astonishing number of Texas ex-pats in the city where I now live -- enough that we have a well-attended "Texas night" where we share the foods we loved in Texas -- who have shared similar stories.
Talk all you want about "virtue signaling", but we don't see a lot of virtue going on in Texas right now. If you're stupid enough to pack ten million people into an area which doesn't have the water resources to handle a population of ten million people -- well, then, *you pretty much deserve what you get.*
Wrong - We have the Edwards Aquifer and the following lakes - Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, and Lake Austin make up the Highland Lakes and hidden gems abound throughout the region. However, I have to agree with you that what made central Texas special are the hill country and beautiful clear waters of the highland lakes, rivers and creeks and less people. Now with the influx from people moving here from out out state - it has changed many magical things about Austin for the worse - local Democratic ran government offering huge tax free incentives to attract big corporations moving here greatly increased population, traffic, housing prices, taxes and crime. . . . and they are still coming. Bigger is not always better.
@@paulweaver5529
Yes, you said it better than I about the population growth, and all the reasons for it.
I completely agree.
As for the list of lakes you mentioned, it's true, most of those lakes are sort of close by.
But they rarely share their water with us.
Right?
Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, and Lake Marble Falls are all North of the Austin area. It seems like it takes an act of congress to have them open their gates to let the water flow downstream.
Maybe that's all to do with the rice growers, and the politics that surround the water rights?
The more I think of it, an act of congress might be the exact thing that it does take to have those gates opened...
I don't really keep track of those arguments.
I just know their water usually stays up North.
I live in a small lake town on the North Shore of Travis, and we tend notice when we're blessed with shared water.
Lake Austin, really that particular stretch of water is all part of Lake Travis.
And I might be mistaken, but I don't think any water is distributed from that section for residential use. Mostly that water is kept at a certain level to insure the upper crust has a nice water view at the edge of their green lawns.
As for The Edward's Aquifer, well...
Sadly, with all the new wells being drilled for all the new developments, places like Leander, and other cities skirting Austin, I do believe the Aquifer will be soon be suffering greatly because of it, if it isn't already.
Not to mention the change in the weather this Summer!
With temps reaching 112° there are actually people STILL trying to keep their water guzzling lawns from going dormant!
I suspect many new arrivals to the area don't have the first clue that during droughts grass lawns should be allowed to go dormant. The green grass will return when the rain water allows such a treat in our dry Texas climate.
Bermuda grass is miraculous that way.
Green grass really shouldn't be the norm, not for public places, or residential homes, yet there they are, manicured to the nines.
Letting the good times flow could very well be a thing of the past with Austin and the water.
Maybe this Summer weather will open their eyes & they'll all move away?
(Wishful thinking I'm sure...)
I heard the arid West Texas desert weather will be permanently moving East to become our very close neighbor. If that's true, these increasing Summer temperatures could very well be a permanent thing.
Even if a lot of the people did move away, the damage will have already been done.
I've heard others call the
type of development happening around here as:
"The Human Tumor".
I must admit, I'm starting to agree with that description as I witness the enveloping destruction that never seems to stop.
Ok, I got a bit dark here at the end.
Except...
I just can't think of how to look at it any other way.
We go through this type of drought every 8-10 years. Then we get an abundance of rain and guess what? The lakes fill back up and all is good. I have been here since 74 and have seen this cycle over and over.
You say this when major droughts are getting way worse every time they happen. The sun is literally dissipating water, it's not a normal cycle coper.
@@secretagentcat it is normal because cycles are ever-changing. Climate will forever be changing with or without humans.
La niña.....again
@@secretagentcat Does the sun make water vanish?
@@roblamastus The sun evaporates water. Are you this uneducated?
Howdy boss, John here from El Paso......just discovered your channel....yes. most disconcerting for the loss of a beautiful place. never had the opportunity, although it is a beautiful area in its current state. Texas and Texans are resilient. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Deep in the heart of Texas baby...see, ya next year. Thank you. Post a lot, ima sub., 🙏
So sad! The Hill Country is my favorite place and it's in dire straits.
It feels like scorched earth here , pray for rain y’all .
Thank you so much for the walk through beautiful Lost Maples State Park.
The last time I saw the Medina river near Bandera like that was in 2011. It's sad to see how brutal this drought is. Earlier this year I was at the Ssbinal river in Lost Maples and there was no flow at all.
Right-wing talking points have changed from completely denying climate change to calling it a "drought." As if the pollution from 7 billion people doesn't affect the planet.
Austinite born and raised here. I've never seen the lakes here in central Texas so low it's scary.
@@LowMS3 it is
Scary part is the last three or four years we've had huge amounts of rain what led up to 2011 was 3 or 4 years of drought and then a mega drop this is all happened because of the heat and no rain all in one year
@@zolowzurkon2533 it is scary. No relief in sight.
oh boy... this is tough... i can feel the pain you walkin through all of this...
much love from germany- i feel you❤
This is a great video. Throughout my life I've seen this happen time and time again. The area Southwest of San Antonio seems especially vulnerable but even here in Houston there was a lot of damage during the last major drought.
There has been some damage to Houston, but we are still faring better than other Texas cities. Our water usage has not been restricted yet.
The locust are coming and you better be ready. With them come the the other insects from central and southamerica.
It's not just the absence of ground water that is killing these trees, but the triple digit temperatures and the fast winds blowing on them similar to a hair dryer against moist hair. So, there's not any moisture in the air that they could leech off of, but the hot winds doing just the opposite; evaporating moisture out of them.
thats a sad true ,
solar wind connections from cme
coronal mass ejections...cern keeps opening portals that are blowing holes in the protective barriers
every year is triple digit temperatures in texas lmao and this is a cooler summer than normal, 111 was the hottest this year, 119 two years ago, 126 15 years ago. It's a la nina year, el nino is around the corner + plenty of rain ... God people are dumb
@@JeremyRobertWalker Much of Texas is a desert, so you have to water your trees, regardless of the temperature.
@@williamcooper2415 my mesquite tree gets it's own water
There's probably someone working at the Lost Maples or at headquarters in Austin that knows exactly what the drought of 2011 did to the trees. Or the County Extension office. The person with that info could be on their way to retirement. Would be cool if you could capture it.
The climate of central Texas is often drought interrupted by an occasional flood. It's why Texas has a large number of reservoirs, but too many people have moved in over the last 5-10 years. In Bell County, the swim beaches of both Stillhouse Hollow and Belton Lakes are closed and the grass is very crunchy with high wildfire risks. It takes a tropical storm or hurricane in the summer to break a drought, but most curve northeast quickly into Louisiana and Arkansas if they hit the Texas coast, or a prolonged weather pattern pulling both Gulf and Pacific moisture in the fall or spring.
Climate change fueling this is man made.
Do you think it's possible that the pollution of 7 billion humans might negatively impact the planet?
@@user-uy3eq5hg1s no
@@user-uy3eq5hg1s nope. I don't.
I read the Bible.
Not science fiction
Howdy friends. Oakmont Park, lake Belton here. Raised on the Pedernales of lake Travis ..
May The Spirit of Peace be with you...
Lol, I'm old enough to remember the 80's, came home on leave, and cried at the sight of Travis.... Ya know, I've come to ask that my cup of faith be filled, and my steps be guided...
Big hugs. Proverbs 27:17
Would like to hear from y'all
dean
Wow, all the times I've been to lost maples I've never seen it that dry. Like you said there's always at least a little bit of water somewhere. But now money rock was dry, the Grotto was dry, but was really shocked me was the very beginning with the river. Hopefully we get a break soon. I've been traveling this summer and this same thing is happening in other states as well. Some just as bad if not worse than texas. Rain and water brings life and without it, life slowly wilts away
Here in Southern California, some Pine trees that were planted back in the 1980s that used to flourish are dying out. Granted, there's lots of beautiful drought tolerant trees to pick from, but it's still telling.
First they told us that climate change is a hoax... now that we are all seeing the lakes dry up and mass wildfires with our own eyes they know that they can't say nothing is happening anymore so climate change deniers all decided to change their talking point to call it a "drought" as if pollution from 7 billion humans and billions of running cars couldn't affect the climate. Climate change deniers are truly shameless and are clearly motivated by money from fossil fuels.
Texas underground is like Swiss cheese, I'm sure you know this. When I was a kid, 62 years ago, you could stand in most creek beds and feel the springs bubbling up between your toes. You could wander around the hills in the hill Country and see little seeps or small springs just oozing water. Texas gets hot and there have always been mini droughts somewhere, every summer.
Until Texas became infected with progress. At least that's what it was called. Cramming 600 houses on a less than 150 acres isn't progress. That's what has been happening across my part of Texas that is the Edwards Aquifer and recharge zone. I remember all the arguments on the news about the state and county authorities wanting to put very strict limits, almost exclusion for any building or development over the recharge zone. Money won. The trees and some plants used to be able to withstand fairly long periods of drought because their roots could go down far enough to find water trapped there or some underground spring or seepage. Now that progress has been sucking water out of the ground at a furious pace for almost 3 decades, the water tables have dropped or just outright disappeared. And the reasons for such ridiculous water usage, just by looking at the things people moving here can't live without can tell exactly why things are now having a hard time hanging on.
1. If you count up all the new homes built in San Antonio and surrounding counties who's suburbs make-up San Antonio in the last 10-15 years. Each one has at least 2 toilets, even if only 3 people live there. How many 3 bedroom homes have 2 bathrooms plus half bath? People now days can not even imagine living in a house without a master bath. Why? Status, guests don't see your bathroom cause it might be messy, some idea that sharing a bathroom is an unacceptable loss of privacy. These extra bathrooms are concidered progress. How many million gallons of water, water that could be used for drinking and that could be still underground and able to support life, how many millions of gallons of water are trapped in toilet tanks that aren't actually necessary? If these are cleaned weekly, how many gallons get flushed just to clean the toilet that wasn't anything more than status symbol?
2. Car wash. There may be places where water is plentiful but not Texas. How many people wash their vehicle weekly? Why? To look pretty.
3. Lawn maintenance. If you are to busy to take care or pay someone to take care of your yard then you don't need a yard. Moving a hose is so time consuming blah blah. Texas, contrary to the brochure, isn't designed for large green lawns. The old folks used to talk about "sweeping" the yard. There wasn't any lawn and they wanted to keep the trashy weeds, tree twigs etc cleaned upp.
Texas isn't suffering any great climate change, there's just to many people sucking out the aquifers and who moved here without a clear knowledge of the weather patterns. The seasons are rarely the same for more than a year or two in a row. They can vary drastically from year to year.
thank you for capturing this historic moment.
This summer is killing us. It's 2011 all over again.
This summer is so much hotter than 2011. San Antonio is only 7 days from tying the number of 100+ days recorded in 2011 with one day of July, all of August, and then September left too. And 9 days from tying the alltime record set in 2009.
It's so heartbreaking to see wonderful old trees dieing. But there's not much that can be done. I'm praying for rain.
actually there is, maybe not for those trees but for our feature. We can educate ourselves on climate change and push for sustainable and renewable resources.
@@joseguzman5875 Good luck in Texas. San Antonio has had its six worst summers all since 1998 but no one wants to believe global warming is real out here.
@@homerthompson416 true, as a Texan, it sucks, most people here don’t believe in climate change, and when they do, they say that is part of economic development and nothing we can do about it😔
In light of this drought, I will quote the Texas patriarchs of history and beseech everyone to follow their example. "Earnestly pray for rain." May God have mercy on us and bless Texas!
I’ve been in Texas for 9 years and I’ve never seen a spring so dry and hot and now summer is the same. 🥵
Been here for 60, it's a dry, hot country, get used to it.
Been in Texas 67 years, seen this many times!
@@redarmysoja 44 years in Texas here!! I have a saying "Being from Texas if we go to hell when we die we will already be used to the heat!"LOL!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Texas has 2 seasons, hot or cold
@@redarmysoja 62 years. This is uncomfortable, certainly. However, you'll know it's a real Texas drought when families are sharing bath water. No joke. Seen it before, I'll see it again. People truly don't understand how precious water is. When you live through a "If it's yellow" year or two, you develope a whole new perspective on the value of things.
Hopefully this never approaches the level of disaster that a decade of heat/drought brought during the 1930s Dust Bowl.
Yeah, there was a drought but it was also caused by overfarming.
@@bobbyhall7472 that method of farming was in direct response to record heat and drought
@@Serf_dumb its how 90% of the country farms right NOW
Looks like we are heading that way, dust bowl 2 the wrath of climate change 😁
Appreciate you covering this, seems most Texans aren’t addressing this. I’m in central Texas. Our drought is truly exceptional in 2022. The rains in May never came. I waited for the local peaches from Fredericksburg to be sold at HEB this year in June, the few that came in were hard, dry and not ripe, then they pulled them off the shelves. The watermelons too are unripe, nothing like we usually get from the Texas grown farms. I read we had many crop failures in our state. Anyone else notice the produce quality decline?
Noticing it in California and n Colorado since I travel a lot for work
I'm pretty sure Fredericksburg has a raindome because while everybody else including us got inches of rain they got nothing every time a storm comes near there it splits or only hits the north side of the town we only got .76 inches of rain in July but for just how dry it's been lately the fact that we were able to pick up that much in July us crazy the entire Hill Country picked up half an inch up to 3 inches of rain in July yet east of 281 got nothing almost other than traces of a little rain and everyone really appreciated that one day of a lot of rain as we didn't get any rain in July after that and we probably won't get much in August if any rain at all
@@ColdSprite New Mexico is getting drenched every every every every every every every every every every every every day with rain seriously it's crazy
I’m in the DFW area and the watermelons sold here have all been a miss…unsweet and whitish light pink on the inside…once cut they go bad w/in a day! Peaches and nectarines never ripen. Usually a cut watermelon can last up to three days with firm meat inside. Dirt up this way is dust…I know here we have burn bans; water restrictions and no charcoal grilling. It sucks.
Geo engineering causes it
This must be devastating for the wildlife. It’s heartbreaking. Those Central Texas heat domes don’t break easily.
It’s gonna take a hurricane or big tropical storm to break it.
@@Hotrodford I've thought that, too. I read that the Gulf is much warmer than normal. I can't help but thinking all that heat building up is brewing a big storm down the road.
I haven't heard the coyotes in months
@@oldgamerchick me either nor have I seen them. White tail deer I’ve seen and I’m feeding them and any other animal. Raccoons, possums are coming up to eat my cats food too and drink water. I leave fresh water for all the animals as the stock tanks are all dried up. Even the prickly pear cactus is shriveling, all of the grass and weeds are dead. It’s the perfect fuel for wildfires. The bad thing about this drought and hot weather is that it increases the outbreak of rabies.
@@oldgamerchick I forgot to mention that one time a few years ago I found my 25 year old nephew passed out outside from heat exhaustion I don’t know how long he was laying out there nor does he. I just happened to walk outside from the house and i saw what appeared as a body on the ground. He woke up in a stumbling daze. I immediately got him inside put him in front of an air conditioner and gave him cool water and a cool shower to lower his temperature. Heat is not something to play with.
Blanco county here. I'm worried we're going to loose multiple trees. I can't hand water them all or enough. A dry spring here means a brutal summer. This spring was actually hotter/worse than 2011. And it's just the beginning of the summer.
Some places on the Blanco river are drying up too.
I'm starting to think that excessive droughts have nothing to do with raking California tree leaves at all.
it's either a la nina year or an el nino year, not rocket science, and raking the forest, something which has been done for thousands of years, is an effective mitigation against forest fire
@@JeremyRobertWalker I hope this is sarcasm.
@@Tsudkyk It's Science. Go educate your self.
nope the elites took all the water, setiously gow 1 year ago we were out of a drought now its gone even more just overnight?? weird
@@JeremyRobertWalker I have 153 acres of bluff line and copperheads that is due a good raking If you want the job? I was going to just do a controlled burn on it but I’m sure you could rake it for me for cheaper. Are you just raking these leaves back a few feet and then raking more in their place or are you going to bag them up for me? I would bring a couple hundred thousand trash bags if so.
Your video really made me sad today. I live in a part of Central Texas that is east of the severe drought by just a few miles. This video brought home to me just how bad it can get to be anywhere. Makes me wonder if our part of the country is destined to becme the Sahara of the USA. Lord I hope not.
well if you look on the world map dallas is on the same latitude as the sahara desert lol
Utopia is or use to be beautiful but with the END times near it looks very frightful .
I live in San Antonio and this drought is awful. I never even thought about the rivers and lakes being this dry! Not only is it because of no rain but the weeks of 100+ degrees we're enduring. And that started in May. Since then, in my area, we've had 6 hours of rain about a month ago and 2 days ago a 10 minute shower. We're expected to have 3 days of rain starting tomorrow. I can't image what destruction that will do. It's a blessing and a curse.
This is a well put together, informative video. I never knew much about Bandera and now want to visit. Maybe after some rain.
Since you were wishing you could get a better view, have you considered getting a drone for such situations?
This is very sad to see. So much beauty there. Great video though. Excellent content. Loved the wilderness and the history of the towns. Very interesting! I do hope you get some rain soon. I'll send some from us here in Washington state.🌧⛈🌦
They should look into all the regenerative ways to restore the land. There's a guy that's greening Australia! Slow down the water, rotational grazing,. Digging trenches for the water to soak into the landsca etc etc. There are so many options.
Let's do all of the above now!
Love this comment - excellent idea, thank you!
I put compost/sand mixture all over my lawn. My city takes in food waste and lawn waste and composts it. Then they deliver by truck. I also use a rachio sprinkler controller for cycle and soak. Helps a lot
thank you for making this channel
The only bright side is how fast that area can bounce back. We had a boat on Lake Travis around 2014, the lake was so low we had to walk down into the lake like 1/4 mile to the marina. Then in 2015 we had some pretty big systems over the hill country and the marina raised back up to normal levels in about 2 weeks. Pretty incredible.
Glad you’re in the neighborhood :) it’s been bad this year. Thank you for showcasing how bad it has become!
Sad to see such drought.
@Jasen Vernor be a nay sayer, till you can't get a drink of water, then ....?
Really enjoy your videos thank you for sharing your experiences
Thanks for info, appreciated! Maybe consider expanding your drought watch to the entire area experiencing drought. Past the artificial state lines which nature ignores. The scope of the problem is gynormous and long term adjustments will be equally large. We're very much all in the same boat... Thanks again for info
I moved out of Texas in 2015 after watching the 2008, 11 and 14 droughts. Lake Travis was 120 ft low. Government had sold the water from the Bee caves water tank to the highest bidder downstream and left those folks without water to bathe their children in. Government trying to take over people's water rights; a friend had to sell 10 acres of 100 on Onion Creek to pay for attorneys to fight the state. 60 mi long Lake Travis and all boat ramps were closed; ramps no longer reached the water. Some lake businesses went under. I still have a truck where the molding melted around the stereo; I kept my windows cracked and used a windshield sunscreen and the heat STILL melted my truck. It's sad to see it back like that again. Now the cold is coming once again and that will kill off more trees. People need water to grow food and survive. Clean water. You better take this stuff seriously folks. You want food or do you want green grass. Decide. At what point do individuals become self-sufficient. Prepare.
Some trees drop their sap down into the rooting system during a severe drought for self-preservation! If one sees the leaves turning colors as in a normal fall this is what they could be doing to save themselves as the rooting system is a PRIORITY! I have seen them do this in a severe drought here in S. Texas and was told by the elders what I shared with you above! They also told me that severe droughts ARE cyclical and sometimes with many years between them! Usually, if the tree does drop its sap, one can see it sprout its leaves AGAIN in the early Spring, weather permitting! Also if some of its branches die it will produce new ones while of course needing time, water and nutrients! Thank you, Jesus!
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Welcome to Texas 2022, our grass is as crispy as fresh potato chips.
Heartbreaking drought. I have been in Texas for all my life. 2011 was bad. The 98-2001 were bad years. In Texas there is no "normal rainfall" and there hasn't been for all my life. It seems it's either drought or flood.
In 1957 it was very dry, the only thing making it was jackrabbits, and they were just hide and bones!
Sad. Thanks for the video. You have a good story telling voice.
That museum looks so interesting. I'd love to spend the afternoon there. Great video. Thank you.
I remember in the 60’s water restrictions in Odessa, Texas. No washing cars or watering lawns. Walking across the Pecos river and not getting your ankles wet. Dry brown grass, short mesquite trees and 106* days. You have good years and bad years. The people moving into Texas have no idea of water conservation.
It’s a chance to go in clean up the river bed. Metal detector and get all the trash out. So when the water comes back it’s ready for it. The rain will return.
Great video. Thanks for documenting.
i don't know what pisses off more ....our rivers or People moving to Texas ......
I feel ya. For me its the people, like Joe Rogan and the minions from California
Well, I moved to Texas almost three years ago and I’m one who can not wait to GTFO! This weather here is NOT for me…you guys can have it!
@@marshalastovall4270 bye !!
Nice film job!
Yup! This sucks and hope it ends soon! After months of trying to get my bass boat back on the water, I was finally ready to test this weekend and couldn't find an open boat ramp. I know there are bigger issues but it speaks volumes to the water disappearing.
Very sorry to see this. We visited Texas, just before the pandemic, and absolutely fell in love. Best wishes to all...🇨🇦💘⚘🙏
I spent the last 10 years of my life here in Texas and this is the worst I have ever seen and it's very scary.
Lol 10 years.. you realize thats nothing right?
@@MrC9Oh3 for me that is almost half my age lol
It’s sad to see the beautiful hill country in that condition, down here in Corpus Christi we don’t realize how bad it really is because all we suffer with is a brown lawn… PRAY FOR RAIN
The biggest driver of climate in the US Southwest is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. When it is in its cool or La Nina phase (the Eastern Pacific is cool and trade winds blow from east to west) as it has been for the last three years there is drought in the Western and Southwestern US. While there is significant Western US drought during the La Nina phase, there is significant rain and moisture in Asia (like the big floods in China the last three years). During the warm or El Nino phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation things reverse and we experience moisture in the US West and Southwest and drought in Eastern Asia. This climate pattern has existed for tens of thousands of years.
So digging about and releasing carbon the earth spent millions of years burying is no factor? It seems the drought in blue states is caused by too many people and golf course's, swimming pools etc. and in red states its the pacific Decadal oscillation. I guess we get to pick and choose what science we accept.
Just got back from lake Amistad and it is low low. We went camping and fishing this last weekend and it was out from last deer season by a 100 yards.
I and my friends are praying for an end to the drought. I hope thousands are praying and believing the same.
We as a nation needs to repent.
Susan,
My family and y have been praying for rain for many months, this past Sunday (7/10/2022) we had 20 minutes of rainfall.
We will continue praying for more rain, in the name of Jesus Christ we will have rain.
I continue to pray for heat wave and drought to end and it starts here. I prayed yesterday for 70 degrees. This morning it was 70 degrees! Instead of 80+ which it has been. Do not be discouraged but give thanks and more will be given.❣
Also pray for and end to irresponsible development because that's the real problem here.
@@susanhemphill9413 AMEN
This year the world has seen droughts in so many countries as Europe, although the drought in texas looks really bad.
Thanks for your tour along the dry river bed.
Wonderful restaurant where you had lunch.
A good share and take care Beth and Simon ❤️ 🙋
If only someone warned us for decades
Thank you for producing and sharing this information.
We have a water crisis in Texas that only rain can completely cure but we're spending a Billion with Operation Lone Star which is helping no one . The priorities of this state are so perverted by useless politics. I live 250 miles northwest of there and it's terrible , 104 at 1230 .
Once upon a time there was a ice age too. Texas would’ve been really cold then.
Welcome to Texas, ive lived here my whole life and i can tell you no matter how hard you all want to make this some devastating unheard of weird disaster, Sorry, its just good ole Normal Texas weather ive seen worse years ive seen better years, certainly doesnt make it any better or easier its just how our Climate here is. and always has been. My 82 year old Mom always said, every drought in Texas is followed by a flood , pull your pantys up folks because theirs one coming.
So we should just roll with the punches, but if the punch is so powerful it causes too much damage to recover from. Ranchers can only lose so many cattle before they go broke.
It's very dry where we are in Texas, even in the last five years it sure seems like the summers have gotten more intense.
Unfortunately, there are droughts all over. I'm in West Texas... We've gotten half the yearly average for this time.
Agree, im in ft.worth. i can't remember our last rain.
@@rneedham667 that's crazy. I have a cousin that has land in Canton.... About an hour and a half east of fort worth. He's having to sell cows, can't grow anything in his garden. He's been living there 45 years. Says this is the worst he's seen it.
San Antonio hasn't had an inch of rain since February 3rd and between then and now the only day we had even half an inch was when we got 0.53 inches on June 28th. An almost completely rainless spring which had us into the 100s by the second week of May. Most of May felt like a typical August, our June was basically 98-106 most of the way, and July this year has been worse than August 2011 was. Dreading what August 2022 holds.
You did a great job at narrating that video
FYI: The TX drought has been ongoing for 5+ yrs.
No it has not. Only a few smaller regions in the west were affected until this year. In fact 3 of the wettest years on record happened in the last 6 years in Texas. Thats part of why this is so scary it only took one spring/summer without rain to put us this far behind and basically kill everything. I work as an Orchard Maker in the Houston area and it was not this bad in 2011. It's basically impossible to plant trees right now.
@@luchacefox259 I farm wheat & cotton in the NW part of TX. When I say there has been a 5 yr drought, that's a fact. Houston is near the Gulf coast where drought conditions are rare. Widen your horizons... TX is a big state.
The western third is drought striken. Haven't seen normal rainfall here since 2015.
@@rt3box6tx74 Once again it's you needs to expand your horizons outside of Lubbock Tx. My cousin is the biggest cotton farmer in the Panhandle and he has had record crops 3 of the last 6 years with the best rains they have seen in decades. Most of the state was fine until this year. The central and west part of the state is a desert and always has been. No one should be living there anyway and it's not a drought if you go to a desert and then have no rain. Sell your land and move before it gets worse and there are no options.
I work outside in Texas pretty much every day for the last 10 years, and the heat has never bothered me. I’ve had heat exhaustion twice this month, never been like this
@Tristan Boyd: I've had heat exhaustion, it's not good. Ever since I suffered the first heat exhaustion it seems like I can't take the heat.
Those were some grim images. I think it's important, though, to see the images rather than pretend the drought isn't happening.
Well made... I hope things improve... also like the other sightseeing moments you take us on.
i did not even know there even was a drought and i live in texas
In 2015 the governor asked the citizens to pray for rain. Their prayers were finally answered with the Housten flood of 2017.
We can stop calling them droughts and call it desertification. It will begin in the West and move East year by year. It will stretch North also.
But don't worry. You have our thoughts AND our prayers.
Good job on the vid. Thank you for showing what we’re going through here! PS might want to ask the locals how to pronounce Sabinal. 😁
Mid 1980s I waxed my '55 Chevy while Texas had 17 days of over 100* weather. Get used to it or move further north. This is Summer in Texas. This is not climate change. I guess 'Remember the Alamo' had air conditioners? It's not the weather that has changed. It's the non Texans who have moved here.
@Limeade Nice what about black bass?
If it happened before mean it is getting worse. In the past, agriculture are not aggresively pursued like now. They drained the water for crops which make it worst then before.
The Pacific Northwest is known for its mild wet winters, but in recent years we haven’t been getting much rain, but we have been seeing extreme cold unlike anything I have ever seen in my nearly 40 years living here. The dry cold winters create extreme fire hazards by time June rolls around and we spend all summer living in a thick blanket of smoke. Luckily, so far this year we have only been getting a hazy layer of smoke but we still have a couple months to go be for my area will be safe from wildfire danger.
I agree on the smoke, but youre an idiot If your saying we haven't had normal rains the last few winters
Welcome to the new climate change people! It's not just us that's having a drought and heat problem! England, Korea, Australia and everywhere around the world is having a same problem...
And what is causing this "climate change"? Overuse? Drought? Gee, we've seen this before haven't we? What makes you think higher taxes will change anything? It's a con.
@dreamstar,
Texas has traditionally been the bulkwart, bastion of "red dead republicans". They don't believe in "climate change", that's just "liberal propaganda", just like "conservation, & environmental health".
We gotta state office in the, "Peoples Republic of Austin" for that anyways, the "TCEQ", they'll handle it." Republicans only believe in, "spells". Right now, we just happen to be in a "dry-spell", nothing to worry about. Lords' in heaven, and we're in Texas, all's well. Pop-open a col' beer.
We've had a few Democratic Governors in the 80's (Mark White, & Ann Richards) but they couldn't do anything either. The Texas House has always been red. Long as the Cowboys are playing, republicans' stay in control, and they got lots'a guns, everything's good under tha' hood!
"Dry spells gonna break one a' these days. You'll see, I hope.
Besides, business ain't never been better for the bottled beverages companies like Ozarka. Wal-Mart's got 'em on sale. Construction industry is boomin'. Y'all be sure an go ta' church, an put in your tithes so the Lord'll give us some'a that good-rain. Grapevine, and Lewisville Lakes have been low lately, cai'nt put-out my boat ta' check-up on my, "trau't lines". I tell ya whut, I blame all this,
"e-llegul emmagrashun" from all them other states on them democrats.
Bobby, go yell at yer momma to get Raul back to workin' on that lawn." This couch needs some layin' on.
As a Texas resident, I thankfully live in an area that's not badly affected by the drought. Even so, I still mostly have native/drought resistant plants, and only water at sunrise or sundown via drip irrigation or hand-watering, just enough to keep them alive, while my lawn is so dry it crunches under my feet. It just ticks me off so much knowing about the drought issue, but seeing other people in the neighborhood have their sprinklers on in the hot afternoons with lawns that are really thick and green, wasting SO much water in the process, not caring where that water comes from or how badly it's needed farther downstream.
I live in east texas, walking on the grass has a crunchy sound like you walking on Frito chips.... hope this drought passes quickly
Great video sir, very informative 👍
So dry hear I caught a catfish with ticks on it
It’s so hot here I saw a dog chasing a cat, and they were both walking.
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Just because a tree turns brown in a drought does not mean its dead it could just be going dormant.
In Central Florida usually it rains every day in the summer, not the last few years. On my street we see rain clouds in the distance but then the rain does not fall on are street.
I thought that big black safe was like the first washing machine that was ever made
we got a couple inches last night here in Abilene. first time in so long that I slept listening to the rain. im thankful
Imagine the amount of rain that’ll be needed to fill these lakes bag up.
floods, hurricanes
Last time (2011)-after five year drought , it filled up our lake all at once
Been here all my life except for one year and this is the second hottest year I can remember
And why aren’t they seeding clouds and creating much needed rain? There are so many company’s that specialize in controlling the weather. Where are they now?
Great point, thing is they DONT wana make it rain.. they want to do is peasants in.
They are the ones who did this.
Chem trails all over the Texas sky's
i live in webster tx, south of hosuton and we were in extreme drought (downtown houston was only severe to moderate) and it didnt rain for 29 days during June. it rained on the 26th of May and then it didnt rain till towards the end of June. Some rain went past us and rained just a mile north. half our garden died. luckily the hottest it got was just 103 (12 degrees above average) but thats only 4 degrees off from the all time record. being near the coast helps a lot with moderating the heat a bit. galveston actually got up to 97 at the hottest point which is about 9 degrees above average for them. thankfully were getting a wet november
We must pray for rain everybody must pray for rain God is still in the business of answering prayers!! Amen
LOL
Beware August, all signs point to power outages in 110° days. a 10k watt dual power genny runs about $1K
Seems prophetic 🤔