Comments on: Blue skies http://www.likesbooks.com/aarafterhours/?p=5746 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:31:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Corinna http://www.likesbooks.com/aarafterhours/?p=5746&cpage=1#comment-333548 Corinna Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:04:31 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/aarafterhours/?p=5746#comment-333548 You might long for sun and clear skies...but you don't know longing until you've watched the world around you slowly die from lack of rain, as we did last year in Texas. Our state lost half a BILLION trees to last year's drought, and even though we've received some this year, many of those trees are so far gone that they continue to die even now. Grass last year was nonexistent. Deer either did not become pregnant, aborted, or left their fawns to die. Cattle died by the thousands. There were days when our temps were literally higher than those in Death Valley. We had 30,547 wildfires which destroyed almost 4 million acres, almost 3,000 homes, and over 2,700 other buildings. Tens of thousands of head of cattle and horses burned to death, as well as innumerable wildlife. Fortunately and by the grace of God, the number of human lives lost was only four---four too many, but less than it could have been. Gray skies day after day might leave you feeling out of sorts...but I'll take that any day over wishing for rain for 6 months without seeing a drop, while the land around you begins to resemble a dead moonscape. THAT is true despair. You might long for sun and clear skies…but you don’t know longing until you’ve watched the world around you slowly die from lack of rain, as we did last year in Texas. Our state lost half a BILLION trees to last year’s drought, and even though we’ve received some this year, many of those trees are so far gone that they continue to die even now. Grass last year was nonexistent. Deer either did not become pregnant, aborted, or left their fawns to die. Cattle died by the thousands. There were days when our temps were literally higher than those in Death Valley. We had 30,547 wildfires which destroyed almost 4 million acres, almost 3,000 homes, and over 2,700 other buildings. Tens of thousands of head of cattle and horses burned to death, as well as innumerable wildlife. Fortunately and by the grace of God, the number of human lives lost was only four—four too many, but less than it could have been.

Gray skies day after day might leave you feeling out of sorts…but I’ll take that any day over wishing for rain for 6 months without seeing a drop, while the land around you begins to resemble a dead moonscape. THAT is true despair.

]]> By: Leigh http://www.likesbooks.com/aarafterhours/?p=5746&cpage=1#comment-322342 Leigh Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:54:23 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/aarafterhours/?p=5746#comment-322342 I like a happy medium. Right now everything is so dry - the vegetation is dying and we are more at risk for fires and the heat - ugh. I would love for about a week of rain. I like a happy medium. Right now everything is so dry – the vegetation is dying and we are more at risk for fires and the heat – ugh. I would love for about a week of rain.

]]> By: LeeB. http://www.likesbooks.com/aarafterhours/?p=5746&cpage=1#comment-322339 LeeB. Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:51:58 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/aarafterhours/?p=5746#comment-322339 I love sunshine and blue skies all the time. Unfortunately I live in Seattle. And seriously, your description of the last six weeks in Germany could have read the same for Seattle, except maybe a day or two here and there of nice weather. I love sunshine and blue skies all the time. Unfortunately I live in Seattle. And seriously, your description of the last six weeks in Germany could have read the same for Seattle, except maybe a day or two here and there of nice weather.

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