Sometimes prayers for rain go unanswered, and sometimes they get answered with more vigor than crops can take. On Monday and Tuesday evening rain and hailstorms hit parts of the Klamath Basin hard, tearing into plants and flooding fields. Official reports from the National Weather Service said Klamath Falls clocked in with 0.73 inches of rain on Monday and Tuesday. But farmers claim to have seen several inches fall on their fields during these severe storms. “The farmers want water but we’d like it at a little less rate than that,” said Terry Guthrie, a potato farmer near Malin. “It’s bizarre. We’re in a drought all summer long for the last eight or nine months, and we have two storms that dump that kind of moisture on us.” Read this story in the print and e-editions of the Thursday Herald and News.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:29:32 +0000
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