Much has been said by our members who live in the Southeastern states about the excessive rain they have had.  We have had none to speak of and everything shows it.  It started raining this morning around 5 am and, as I write, we have had almost 6 inches.  Several streets are flooded, creeks are out of their banks, trees are leaning, and I am thankful for the rain, hope it rains all night.  It may not be good for figs but the figs will return next year, what is sad is the loss of mature trees to the drought condition that actually started 3 years ago.  The difference, a fig tree can lose its whole crop to splitting and next year can return with good figs in abundance.  A mature Oak, Pine or any other mature tree takes 10's of years to reach maturity and then only if someone doesn't step on it or run over it with a car, or lawnmower, etc.

It is such a small thing to lose a crop of figs in a backyard hobbyist's orchard compared to the reality of lack of rain destroying acres and acres of mature trees, or as a minimum, weakening them to the point of vulnerability to every disease, or borer beetle, or other pest that was brought in on some imported "something".

Just thankful for the rain and hopefully encouraging others to be thankful for the rain.

As living in a more cooler climate I can't image how it's without any rain for such a long period of time.
This summer we had no rain for about 4 weeks and it felt like half a year.
I am glad you're able to enjoy sone rain now!

danny, looks like the same storm that hit us here. after the initial 6''. we've gotten rain every single day. our 3 year drought is over.

in the past two weeks, the brown dead spots have been colonized by native so-called weeds. everything is green n lovely. 

so much rain in such a little time is very inconvenient for  me, but i'm very happy for my neighbors. i used to see hundreds of cows n dozens of horses. they are all gone due to lack of forage n impossibly high cost feed. people counting on cattle to help pay the mortgage have been hurt bad. the banks own lots of land, n if the drought continued another year, more folks would've lost their homes.

this rain is the most wonderful thing ever. no more sand storms, no more empty pastures.

yup, be thankful.

Just outside of Texarkana, we have gotten approx. 7" since 10 pm last night.  It's just been a slow, steady rain all day today.  Even with all this rain, we will still be under drought conditions at least through the end of the year.  Not sure how my fig trees in pots will react to all the water but I'm still thankful.  As Danny said, the figs will recover, the pines and oaks may not. 

rats! even after more than 7'' of rain, we are still classified as being in severe drought.

what worries me is that there is tree ring evidence of a pre columbian drought that lasted hundreds of years.