Hi  folks,

I see you have a lot of heat in  parts of  US. I would  be glad if I
could to send rain. We had  another 6mm at supper   time last night
and another 1 over  night. The rivers are going down  but not  before
taking roads  out. Water running down ditches  eroded the roads in
places.  Other places it ran over the road and cut  a new channel.
One  place  it does not go under the bridge  anymore and a new bridge
needs to be built.  Can not get to well sites  and the new leases
are too soft to work at. When  the level  drops some more, I  will
have to get out the gold pans as the  high  flow will have
 deposited gold dust where it  slowed.

Cheers and  have  a good day.

Dale  Davies

Dale
Are you in Australia? I googled 'Rain in Australia "  after your
comment and  it seems to be confined to the bottom part of  the
continent. Paul's favorite  places seemed to be dry. I was   there
last in '91 and it was dry. Peter

All of Oz is  just  great. I highly recommend it.

Paul Lamar

Hi   Peter,

No. I am in west central Alberta, Canada. Whitecourt.  54.10960N  and
115.81553W. Local airport is CYZU. Lots of flooding in  west central
Alberta
and southern Saskatchewan. Lot of other places  like Pakistan also  flooded.
Chile is buried under 7 - 9 ft of snow.  Other places in drought
 and fires.

Dale Davies

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Hi Dale

I am west of Chicago and we have had heat and rain. A  record 7" in
2 hours last weekend and 2 more big storms since then. Hope  you
keep pumping oil up there because our current leadership wants  to
use your oil first.

Peter Duffecy

The waste product of  Alberta oil sands is nice white clean beach
sand :) They ought to start  selling that too.

Paul Lamar

Paul
Nice white beach sand does a great job of breaking up the Illinois
clay based soil. Maybe we could pump it down here in the pipelines
with dilutents and separate the sand out down here.
Peter


Pipes taking the "clean" sand to the ponds are turned every 6 weeks, 1/5th
turn each time. This is with carbon steel pipe. There is more expensive pipe
available that lasts longer. Transports well in water but very abrasive on the
pipe. A potash mine in Saskatchewan uses teflon lined pipe. They drill wells
and pump water down to dissolve the potash and salt. Then dehydrate and
separate  the salt and potash. Also abrasive to the piping.

Dale Davies