Drought score of 282 down from 295.
I dunno....it's now starting to seem kind of dumb how they're labeling areas "drought."
The area I'm in is "severe drought."
Is the area I'm in still behind on a decent chunk of precipitation for the year?
Yeah.
Is it dry? Does it seem like we're in a "severe drought?"
Fukc No!
I pulled out a rain garden the county made us put in as part of an approval for a variance. FYI Crow Wing County has the dumbest fukcing lakeshore laws...all literally the result of one guy being an asshole, AKA "Denny Hecker" either on Gull, Crosslake, or somewhere on the Whitefish chain....the fukcer was building rectangular and geometric islands going out into the lake, as in he had a large rectangular island built fifty yards out for his bonfire parties, and had connecting islands with bridges and shit to get out there. When I say "rectangular island" I'm talking an island that's really more of a elongated cube (forgot the term) with 3' white concrete walls going straight up and there being perfectly manicured golf fairway grass on the top. The shit was pretty tacky....since it was meant to match his modern white "scarface" cabin/lake home.
So because of Danny Hecker there used to be multiple giant holes in the yard lined with rip-rap Boulder rock walls and fine grain sand bottoms......the county refers to these as "Rain Gardens." Essentially, the county made us tear up the shitty grass weedy lawn with ferns edging it.....to bare dirt, and then construct a bunch of dumb shit like "rain gardens" because apparently they were worried about sediment run-off......on the rough grass like 1/8th of an acre they had us tear open......to bare sediment.....because they didn't want sediment going in the lake.....so they made us convert the property from a state where it was impossible for sediment to go into the lake because there wasn't ever any exposed sediment.....and they had us convert it to something that was nothing but exposed sediment that could, would, and did run off into the lake when it rained......
....all. because the county didn't want sediment going in the lake.
Make sense?
If you're a retard working for Crow Wing County then the answer is a resounding, "Yes."
But for me?
I tripped and fell into one of those fukcing holes....er, I mean "Rain Gardens" to where I said, "Fuggit," and order five cubic yards of black topsoil and filled the fukcers in and planted grass seed over them.
I planted the grass seed I'm guessing 15-18 days ago. Guess how many times I've watered it?
Zero.
Yet it is green as hell and thick new grass. I moved it two days ago.
How is it possible that I'm growing what is essentially some high grade sod at this point when all I've had to do is no joke, just sprinkle some grass seed on some black dirt....and without doing anything else......I now have lush green grass.....because we're in a severe drought, where everything is a bright green and the ground is wet.
Severe drought. A little North of here it looks the same, bright lush green with wet ground.....up there it's exceptional drought.
I get that the lakes are still down and the river is low......
.....but it seems like it has rained ten days straight. At the very least it's rained eight or nine out of the last ten.
Yet we're in "exceptional drought." There's a burning ban because of "how dry" it is.
You'd need fukcing napalm to start a fire that'd light the woods up for a minute or two, to burn an acre or two.
Seems dumb to have a burning ban when everything is wet to the touch.