Friday, October 21, 2011

Evil Summer 2011

So I found out today that we're being upped to Stage 3 Water Conservation, because the drought is continuing and expected to last for something like the next six months. This is not good news. We've had some rain, but not enough, and we're not making up for it fast enough to fill the lakes (man-made) back up. I was planning on sharing these pictures anyway, so this seems like an appropriate time.

This is what our backyard normally looks like:

And this is what it looked like during the summer.

These are dead leaves falling in July.

4 comments:

  1. We are going up a stage in November as well.

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  2. Looks like a minor earthquake with the cracked ground!

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  3. It really does. Also, it's really easy to sprain an ankle if you're not paying attention--sometimes the ground is weak and even though a crack wasn't visible, your foot breaks right through.

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