For Those Planning on Attending Operation Locust – Cancellation is Now Likely
Okay on the weather forecast we just jumped from 40% to 80% chance of rain, so I just don’t know about this event right now. I will wait till tomorrow to make the call but right now it is pretty likely that I will have to cancel and reschedule.
The big issues are
- 1. We have severe weather forecasted, tornado chances are really low but still severe weather is severe weather especially for some of you driving petty far.
- 2. If we get a lot of rain then we end up making a huge mess during the work and that sets things backward.
My gut right now is I am going to have to cancel. I am waiting for a weather update tomorrow to see more about the timing because I already know what is going to happen.
If I go forward the weather guessers will be idiots and forecast Noah’s flood in the AM it will barely rain until 4-5 when everyone would be on the way home an I will inconvenience you guys and get no work done at the same time.
However if I don’t cancel we will have driving rains, high winds and flash flooding first thing in the AM, everyone will be miserable, any work we try to do will make the land into a big mess, etc.
Right now I am thinking about punting and pushing this till Sunday the 20th but I realize that may not work for everyone who wanted to come.
Fricken cursed is what my events are, 0% rain for 10 days except the one day we scheduled this for. Moving to Sunday this week doesn’t work because if we get the rain forecasted it will be a big mess when we try to do the work.
Sigh. Stay tuned.
You have better odds in Vegas than you do as a farmer.
What is the tree pictured in the blog? I have black locust growing, just dropped all leaves, but it doesn’t look anything like the picture.
It is a black locust, one old enough to flower they only do that for about two weeks in spring.
Don’t forget that we had BEAUTIFUL weather for all 3 days for the battery bank class when I was there. Clearly I bring good weather with me 🙂
Steve
Jack –
Just wanted to chime in on your dates. Sadly, I am not able to make it anyway on Saturday the 12th. However, I’d be willing to come out on Sunday the 20th.
Driving in from Colleyville.
I should also be able to make it out for the rescheduled date if it happens. Driving from Euless in the event you’d like to carpool Tim.
The Red Sox have some experience in that matter. Might be time to bring in some expertise!