Milk chocolate water filling the river at 5:30 a.m.
The rain gauge shows 4.69 inches of rain for the month as I type. There is one more day in September. Will we make it to five inches of rain for the month? The last time Corrales received more than 4.50 inches of rain in a month was July and September 2013. According to the NOAA records, the Corrales gauge recorded its all-time 24-hour precipitation record of 1.78 inches on July 26, 2013.
The owl and I were the only ones out in the rain this morning.
No trace of the moon through the thick clouds.
The Rio Grande was flowing fast and high at 7:00 a.m.
Rio Grande at 5:30 a.m. this morning running about 4 feet higher than the night before.
We got a major thunderstorm at midnight last night that dumped almost 3/4 of an inch of rain. When I got up, the rain gauge showed double the amount of rain from when I went to bed. We now have 1.43 inches of rain for the month. I did another five-mile walk in the rain again this morning.
Clouds on the Sandias at dawn
The Rio Grande at 7:00 a.m. this morning up another 2 or more feet from 5:30 a.m.
The place where I stepped down to take the 5:30 a.m. photo was under water at 7:00 a.m.
Jake met me at the gate and got a short ride to my parking spot when I got home this afternoon.
Taboo Rose
Spunk with Doppel in the background
Doppel
Sunset
The river had gone down about 4 feet by dusk. The place I step down to take photos was no longer underwater, but too muddy to step on, unless you’re a dog.
Water was still flow the full width of the river at dusk.
The Rio Grande had more water in it at 5:30 a.m. this morning
I walked my five miles in the rain again this morning. The rain gauge showed 0.61 inches of rain when I left, and 0.70 inches when I got back. It stopped raining as I finished my walk, and the rain gauge still shows 0.70 tonight. I thought the rain coming in from the west would make it to us, but it stopped short of delivering any rain tonight. We got some decent light shots while watching and waiting to see if the storm would rain on us.
Silly Silver
Spunk
Doppel walking by Jake
I see dogs in the clouds
Sunset
The moon showed through for a brief moment
Water was flowing the full width of the river tonight.
Storm moving in from the west
Laurie’s first lightning shot
Although we didn’t get rain from the storm, I got some lightning photos out of it.
Less than a week after the multi-agency effort to release 650 million gallons of water into the Rio Grande as a “scientific experiment… to learn how the water flows through the river…”, all 650 million gallons of water have since flowed past Corrales, and the river is back to where it was last Monday before the water was released last Tuesday. I hope the bureaucrats learned how water flows through the river.
It seemed like a good time to post The Drought, that I wrote, recorded, and made a video asking the question, “Where did all the water go?” The song is raw and rough, in the style of what I call “Dry Metal.” The lyrics are at the end of the post.
Spunk: “I can’t believe all the water’s gone!”
Back to the start of the day.
Cracked clay on one side Green slime on the other side Dichotomousness?
Daily Doppel
Sunrise
The Drought By Timothy Price
[Chorus] Where did all the water go? Where did all the water go? Where did all the water go?
[Verse] Scorched earth, cracked white clay Fried in dryness, woe Drought sucks life’s blood away Where did all the water go?
[Chorus] Where did all the water go? Where did all the water go? Where did all the water go?
[Verse] Thirsty plants bow their heads Pray for rain, the watershed Parched seeds cry die of thirst How have we earned this curse?
[Bridge] Sun shines happiness We frolic in deceptive rays Encourages us to foolish ways Water’s precious, so we say But we waste it anyway In denial as it dwindles Less and less from day to day to day
[Chorus] Where did all the water go? Where did all the water go? Where did all the water go?
[Outro] Where once water flowed clear and cold Green slime clings to mud The water’s foul, so the waterfowl Fly off in search of some Where did all the water go? Where did all the water go? Where did all the water go?
The Rio Grande at 7:30 p.m. this evening. !Milgro! There’s water!
The Conservancy released water from Abiquie Reservoir. Why now? I have no idea. It’s past the growing season, and most of the cottonwoods in the bosque are suffering or bare, possibly dead. The release of water might be due with the agreements between Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. But it’s too little, too late for the farmers and the trees.
