On Thursday night 5/3/07 about 7:00 PM CDST Frisco, Texas was hit by a rain storm delivering many inches of rain and 80 MPH wind. The wind did us no damage but it flooded our lake as high as it has ever been. The water was flowing across the road at the low end. This is a view of the backyard taken from the porch. It was actually pitch black and still raining, but I...
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A Thinker’s Dam
Brother Jim (up in Flat Rock, NC) sent me some videos of his dry pond. Well, it did have an honest to goodness babbling brook running through the middle. It also had a few inches of mud at the bottom. He tells me he just took 40 truckloads of mud out of that bottom. He called it “cleaning out the pond”. It must have been a mud pond. Now he is going to build a little dock, fix the...
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I am excited! It doesn’t take to much for that to happen… 🙂 It’s raining here in Dallas. A great several day soaking rain. No big deal you think? Well, Dallas has been in a drought for about two years. I can only water the grass once a week and then on certain time periods on that day. Needless to say, most yards are suffering. Mine included. This isn’t the end of the drought. Predictions...
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I had a chance to work in my machine shop most of the weekend. Feels good to again get back to all the metal chips flying. I finished off my A3 locomotive driver wheels. There is a quick link to them under |Site Tools | What’s New | in the main menu at the THMS site. The weather in Texas is perfect too. The temperature was hitting the 80’s. All the flowering trees are in...
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