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Down here in North Texas the forcast is for a 20% chance of rain sowers this evening and a 30% chance for Saturday night and Sunday morning. We haven't had a drop of rain since mid-June. Not a drop. We had those 110 degree temperatures all summer and everything's dead and fires are burning up the prairie. The temperatures have been down in the mid-90s the past week or so and it's nice today, upper 80s in the forcast but back in the mid to upper 90s tomorrow. I hear our neighbors to the north in Okiehoma also have fires all over their pretty Davis and Arbuckle Mountains. They need some of those prayers too. We make fun of our Okie neighbors but we really love 'em. (Don't tell any of them I said that)
-- Joe Cole (jcole@apha.com), September 21, 2000
Joe, We FINALLY had a major rain last night!!!! There was water standing in puddles this morning and water standing in the animal outside watering bowls!!! We're about 40 miles north of Birmingham and they are asking people to conserve water there. Their main source of water is Lake PUrdy and it is at an all time low---below 40 percent! There's been a more than 3000 acre wild fire in Tuscaloossa county....It's going to take much more than this rain to correct the drought here but we are thankful for what we received last night!!!I'm trying to take it easy today and see how I can de-stress my life and still survive!!!! We'll pray that you get RAIN and lots of it!!!
-- Suzy in 'Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), September 21, 2000.
I send rain prayers from Nova Scotia. God bless.
-- Alison Proteau (aproteau@istar.ca), September 21, 2000.
Consider it done Joe. With all of us praying, God will surely here us and I hope he blesses you all (and the Okies!) with plenty of rain.
-- Annie (mistletoe@earthlink.net), September 21, 2000.
Hey Joe, We're sending our prayers to God for you. I can only imagine how truly devastating it must feel to be in the midst of all those fires. How awful! We live in Illinois but our daughter was a rookie fire- fighter in Colorado in '91 when the 14 firefighters died in their protective tents. When we heard that on the news, we all cried. We didn't know if she was one of them. Luckily she was not. We'll certainly do our small part & pray for all your family & friends. Jane
-- Jane Gauch (sewbears4u@hotmail.com), September 21, 2000.
Joe, I have stood in your shoes. Hard drought for two years, driving into my non too cheap neighborhood with cinders floating in the air brought terror to my throat. That over with, what did I do, but move into a forest. Talk about seemingly human stupidity. Moved out to almost no-where, drought still going, dry trees and bush surround me. I had nothing but Prayer. Before you tune me out, somehow it worked. After two years of rampant forest fires, we are now drenched. Have water standing in the yard, mosquitoes also, Nasty creatures, if you let the idea rule your mind. Wish I could send some of this physical rain, your way. Maybe if I believe it can happen, and You believe it can happen, then it will be DONE. I pray rain, on your land.
-- Church Fan (hand@waver.com), September 21, 2000.
Joe, I'm in N.E. Tx, no rain yet but doens't this cooler weather feel GREAT!!! Tired of the drought too.!!!!!!!!! I'll pray, you pray, we all will pray!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Carol
-- Carol (cwaldrop@peoplescom.net), September 21, 2000.
lawdy lawdy lawdy !!! i knew youall texans were good for sumthun, i just couldn't quite figure it out :)
-- gene ward in oklahoma (gward34874@aol.com), September 21, 2000.
Talked to my folks in Utah last night, and they said their weather station reported this has been the driest and hottest summer in 104 years, which is as long as they have been keeping records. Probably about the same here. Prayers for all of us, that we don't have another dry mild winter, and hot dry summer ahead. Jan
-- Jan in Colorado (Janice12@aol.com), September 21, 2000.
I have been praying too, Joe. It's heart wrenching seeing everything die. We had 3 months without last summer, Kentucky is supposed to be wet for the woods to live. We lost allot of trees around the state too. I was so worried about the well, I did our laundry in buckets for 3 months. To this day, every time I turn on the water, I say, "Thank you God for the water" It's because they are cutting down the rain forest. It's all messed up, has been since 93. You have just got to get some rain, and Okie too. The guy I get the hay from said Kentucky is sending down hay to Texas. They have been calling everyone who has huge amounts to sell.
-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@msn.com), September 22, 2000.
Thanks y'all. Still no rain here but there's a good chance for Saturday night and Sunday morning. I'll let y'all know. What we need is for a hurricane to come in about Corpus Christi but then, I've got friends down there and don't want them to be blown away. It's "just always somethin'" as Roseann Rosanna Danna used to say.
-- Joe Cole (jcole@apha.com), September 22, 2000.
We had snow today. Yes. Snow. Don't you just love Canada???
-- Tracy (trimmer@westzone.com), September 22, 2000.
Howdy Joe,We just had rain twice this month here in Abilene,Tx, but it has been and continues to be dry, we had 73 straight days no rain, all our churches have been praying for 3 years now, my daughter,Emmy, tells me they got their first snow of the season Today in Anchorage!! Its her first winter in Alaska, I told her to email us some!! Praying for all of us in all the states with drought and fires (son was fireman for eight years) Pray for our firemen too, for their safety fighting the fires. Hope we all get some of that H20 soon, and thank you Lord, for the refreshing rain we have received twice this month! Praise God he is and will always be AWESOME!!
IN HIS GRIP,
Reth and Gary Dyches Abilene
-- Retha and Gary Dyches (rethaandgary@yahoo.com), September 28, 2000.