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mpaer said:
Got down to 48- a record for the date at RDU-I would "guess" a record for June
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I looked up the record for Atlanta, it's 46 for this date. Still doesn't seem normal.

I guess global climate change is over, another victory for Trump.
 
I had the windows open and the attic fan cranking last night, it was brisk. I like to cool the boards when I can…
 
aGDevil2k said:
It's getting hard to keep plants alive at this point
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I pulled up a couple of hundred extraneous solidagos today. They were hogging water and space where I didn't want them. Still probably have too many. I'll likely do the same with the various fleabanes.

AS it stands, I'm watering every day and will probably continue since I still have back ordered plants coming in. New plants need water.
 
finesse said:
I pulled up a couple of hundred extraneous solidagos today. They were hogging water and space where I didn't want them. Still probably have too many. I'll likely do the same with the various fleabanes.

AS it stands, I'm watering every day and will probably continue since I still have back ordered plants coming in. New plants need water.
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Wish we could water around here… we’re still under mandatory water restrictions. The city has turned off the local splash pads so the kids are bummed. But the community swimming pool is open. And LakeJames is near by… best lake in the Carolinas.
 
finesse said:
We have a deep well that hasn't been affected yet. Don't know how long before we have to cut back or if we will.
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My well is about 410 ft deep. It had massive depth when last checked so I feel pretty safe with it. But I am still being cautious. Watering grass every once in a while just to keep it alive. I dont even care about it looking good at this point - just living through this is the goal. My fruit trees are basically stunted this year.

Here's rain in central Orange County from my weather station this year....shows I was not exaggerating with the amount.

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aGDevil2k said:
My well is about 410 ft deep. It had massive depth when last checked so I feel pretty safe with it. But I am still being cautious. Watering grass every once in a while just to keep it alive. I dont even care about it looking good at this point - just living through this is the goal. My fruit trees are basically stunted this year.

Here's rain in central Orange County from my weather station this year....shows I was not exaggerating with the amount.

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Here’s the reality for the Piedmont.

You don’t have a deep aquifer.

Your 410-foot deep well is likely not connected to a huge pool of subterranean water. When drilling, you penetrated an angled crack in the ground.

You have a kinda-sorta-chopped up mixed rock and gravel thing that isn’t quite an aquifer.

My Dad’s a retired geologist
  • 40+ years tenured at UNC; about 20 years as Chair;
  • 1st mass spectrometer on a Southern campus (he won the grant money for the mass spec and the Chem lab to produce the samples; he worked on moon rocks at Goddard Space Center (I mention this because he’s a reasoned scientist who doesn’t engage in hyperbole).
Dad will be the first to tell anyone that he’s not a groundwater expert; he will say he knows a good bit about the geological formation under NC’s Piedmont; but, he’s not an expert.

There is no large aquifer. The rock is splintered. Often, the fracture runs downward at an angle - you might find water at 35 feet. You might find water at 400 feet. And, be in the same fracture.

Dad worries about the well running dry…..especially with Mom having Alzheimer’s (she’ll leave faucets running).

We store captured rainwater for watering plants. 1,600-1,800 gallons. It’s not potable water.

We’re close to full today.
 
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Obviously, I can't see underground so I can't know how big a supply we have. When I talked to my son about it, he said when the well was dug 4 years ago, they hit water at 400 feet and it was producing 30-35 gallons a minute. He wasn't too worried but I still plan to keep my eye open.
 
Zoo_View said:
Here’s the reality for the Piedmont.

You don’t have a deep aquifer.

Your 410-foot deep well is likely not connected to a huge pool of subterranean water. When drilling, you penetrated an angled crack in the ground.

You have a kinda-sorta-chopped up mixed rock and gravel thing that isn’t quite an aquifer.

My Dad’s a retired geologist
  • 40+ years tenured at UNC; about 20 years as Chair;
  • 1st mass spectrometer on a Southern campus (he won the grant money for the mass spec and the Chem lab to produce the samples; he worked on moon rocks at Goddard Space Center (I mention this because he’s a reasoned scientist who doesn’t engage in hyperbole).
Dad will be the first to tell anyone that he’s not a groundwater expert; he will say he knows a good bit about the geological formation under NC’s Piedmont; but, he’s not an expert.

There is no large aquifer. The rock is splintered. Often, the fracture runs downward at an angle - you might find water at 35 feet. You might find water at 400 feet. And, be in the same fracture.

Dad worries about the well running dry…..especially with Mom having Alzheimer’s (she’ll leave faucets running).

We store captured rainwater for watering plants. 1,600-1,800 gallons. It’s not potable water.

We’re close to full today.
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Hopefully most people know that. Otherwise drilling depth would be very consistent

The vein we hit was cranking 100 gpm (it really shot over 60 yards to hit the road... It was incredible). It was still the same 4 years ago when we had to replace wire. I am scared though, given conditions.

Local ponds are disappearing
 
Last year during Chantal, we received more rain in one day than we have had in all of 2026 almost halfway through the year

And honestly it's not a particularly close comparison
 
For those of you in NC, have you seen any lightning bugs/fireflies so far this year? I’m in Charlotte and have not. I usually start seeing them around late May. I just sat out in my backyard and didn’t see a single one. Kinda bummed about not seeing any so far.
 
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