{"id":4154,"date":"2003-01-28T08:23:39","date_gmt":"2003-01-28T13:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T01:02:15","slug":"how_dry_i_am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/28\/how_dry_i_am.html","title":{"rendered":"How dry I am"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmmm. Not good. Colorado’s snowpack is only 75% of normal<\/a> for this time of year. Which ordinarily would not be a huge deal, were it not for the serious drought <\/a>we’ve had the last two years.<\/p>\n

It looks like a difficult year ahead. And that’s just for us suburbanites trying to keep a garden green. I don’t want to even think about the farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hmmm. Not good. Colorado’s snowpack is only 75% of normal for this time of year. Which ordinarily would not be a huge deal, were it not for the serious drought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-and-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7661,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/let_it_snow_let.html","url_meta":{"origin":4154,"position":0},"title":"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Jan-05 2:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... because every flake slams our fading drought: Colorado's snowpack, the lifeblood for the state and other parts of the West, has climbed to 121 percent of the 30-year historical...","rel":"","context":"In "Weather (mine)"","block_context":{"text":"Weather (mine)","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/weather-and-seasons"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":334,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/how_dry_i_still.html","url_meta":{"origin":4154,"position":1},"title":"How dry I (still) am","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-May-03 7:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"The state-wide drought may be kinda-sorta over, but there's still a lot of drought out there -- and we're still in dryer than normal conditions, the snow and rain of...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3956,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/06\/dust_in_the_win.html","url_meta":{"origin":4154,"position":2},"title":"Dust in the wind","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Mar-03 9:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"The mountain snowpack is close to normal, but the reservoirs are still scraping the bottom of the barrel. 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