IrishRob17

Violently agree...dammit.

You can come back, we’re trying to ditch Bx. But wait, it’s a dry heat so it has to feel wonderful no matter how hot...

Staying there we hope...for like ever.

I have a couple of sugar maples that look like parts of them are ready to turn, I’ll try to take photos tomorrow. And it’s become rather evident in my hood the damage that the emerald ash borer has done

@Snow88 took some heat in the main thread after his comment about the leaves and sunset up here. Well, the sun doesn't set at 7:15pm, in Orange County today's sunset is 7:37pm but we have lost 35 minutes on the sunset this month to date, with 8/1's sunset time of 8:15pm here. As far as the leaves, there are definitely changes happening although many wouldn't necessarily recognize the change unless they study the trees all season long. The leaves now certainly do not look like they did a month ago as they take on that lighter more tired look, the deeper greens of earlier in the growing season are long gone on most of the trees around me. You always have the younger and/or stressed trees changing early and I've seen some of that. What has really caught my eye the past couple of days is that the poison ivy has already flipped to red in many spots here. Granted that poison ivy is one of the first things to turn but I don't recall it changing so early before but that could be because the past two sucky foliage seasons are still stuck in my mind when it took forever for things to change and it wasn't pretty when they did. Anyone else notice any of this around here?

I had a patch of the lawn that looked similar to above and could not figure it out a couple of years ago. Then while mowing a clump of grass just rolled up and then I realized it was grubs again. It had been 11 seasons since I had applied milky spore and they were back. After I treated the whole yard, including flower beds, again with milky spore I haven’t seen them in a couple of years again.

Here ya go, taken this morning

It looks like it’s rage-o’clock there, that sucks!

First 40's of the season with 49 for the low this morning IMBY

Mother Nature putting on one hell of a show down here tonight, gotta love the thunderstorms down here! The storms are up by Nags Head, no thunder down here yet.

With all of the trees that Big G has lost over the past several years I figured his yard looked like the Great Plains by now.

Big G, that’s terrific and his new nickname.

Waves, NC

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Thank you. I’m just impressed someone thinks I have a point as misguided as it may be.

But all of the indicators are there, we really have it figured out this year, lock it up...

Oh and I’m told I had 1.25” in 30 minutes at home, washed out the driveway yet again.

Pretty decent flooding on Highway 12 down here, idiots driving too fast, case in point. The water was deep enough in spots that we couldn’t see any of the lines on the road.

The rain showers down here in OBX have been incredible, tremendous wind blown downpours, but they always seem to be that way down here.

I work for a governmental planning department. We have various types of planners with specialty areas including environmental planning.

@Juliancolton, when I get back in the office at the end of the month I’ll walk down the hall and talk to some folks and see if I can get you some info/contacts.

Do the work this winter when all of the snowbanks around here are 8 feet high...

Well if you want to follow the rules...

Here in the park every few years or so the County rents a track hoe with an extended boom and dredges the Wallkill so that the water can reach the pump intake. I have no idea how much that costs.

That sucks, no way to save it?