I have to water my trees!!

[Hardrada]

It's so wretchedly hot here and we haven't gotten more than one quarter inch of rain since the end of April. This is Iowa, for Pete's sake, not Arizona! No central a/c either so we dress lightly to say the least or stick to rooms with window a/c's. I blame all this on Shrub and Co.

[footinmouth]

1. Me too!

I'm also stuck here watering trees. I'm in Buffalo, NY, not exactly the Miami of the North. I've lived her my whole life and I've never seen droopy trees before. We've been in the low to mid-90's for 2 weeks straight now.

[Elidor]

2. And the storms are all off this year

I don't mean just the hurricanes. As the guy responsible for the computers at work, I usually have to unplug everything in the spring and then things mellow out in the summer. This summer has been hell for storms. (In fact, we're getting socked right now.) It worries me, because I'd like to believe that Art Bell's book The Day After Tomorrow was just some kooky worst-case scenario. But it's getting harder and harder to believe that.

[Hardrada]

3. You must be down in TX or FL.

We have had only a smattering of storm SOUNDS (a bit of faint thunder like someone passing gas a few rooms down the hall). And only one night with a bit of lightning. Not unprecedented though. It was like this in 1988. And then we were in a house with fans upstairs and no a/c!!

[Elidor]

4. Tennessee

All of the rednecks, none of the flatness.

[Hardrada]

5. We aren't flat in my part of IA.

Mississippi River valley and limestone bluffs. Beautiful but we try to keep it secret or we'll have those %@#!$ big mansions all over the place!

[WCGreen]

6. Drip the water on your trees......

It's best to do that so you won't have your grass all green in one place around your trees and then brown in the rest of your yard...

I don't presume to know it all but I do know that lawns that go brown are not usually dead, they are dormant........

You really don't want to wake them and without committing to water the lawn for the rest of the year....

[Hardrada]

8. Some of the trees are fifty or so feet high.

How could I drip on them? Or do you mean right next to the trunk?

[WCGreen]

11. Down by the trunk.....

That's where the trees get water and air....

[Elidor]

7. LIMESTONE! You just said the magic words!!!

There must be CAVES! I didn't realize there were caves in Iowa. Probably wetter than hell, though, if they're in the river valley.

During normal years, I mean. Nothing like a good drought to push those wet caves.

[Hardrada]

9. Got lotsa caves around here.

Even a caves state park. Some were used by bootleggers back in the dry years.

[roguevalley]

10. leave a hose barely running near the trees in question when the

sun goes down. you won't lose water to evaporation if you do and it will truly soak your trees instead of wasting water in the air.

[tyedyeto]

12. Had some rain here in southern Arizona today

It's monsoon season, FINALLY!!!