08-12-2016, 09:08 PM
ezdays Wrote:You may find this hard to believe, I did, but there's a rather large salt mine out just north of Luke AFB ...They bring in tank cars with liquefied natural gas several times a week and pump it into the ground. You can see the pumping station from the road, it's not marked, but there's no doubt what it is.Via Google Earth, I followed the branch to the pumping station. Sure enough! I guess it's all good and well but it sure sounds crazy to pump that stuff back in the ground for storage. I've heard of huge cracks in the ground out that way from pumping the aquifer way down. Excessive heat, drought, Salt caverns, gas storage, recessed aquifer... sounds like a dangerous place to live!
It's dried up 'round these parts a little over the last couple of weeks but I'm still having to go out and mow about every 3-4 days. The next several days promise to be quite wet...
Saturday - 1.45"
Sunday - 1.16"
Monday - 1.11"
Tuesday - .74"
As of tomorrow, I wonder if this is the last of our upper 80-90 degree summer weather as it appears our highs will be dropping below 80 for the rest of the extended forecast.