People want to deny the facts but the facts can be seen if you look. Excessive heating of the earth causes excessive variations and extremes in the weather. It will be raining in some areas more and drier in other areas more often. Remember we are talking about higher AVERAGE GLOBAL Temperatures not just higher temperatures in your local area. As the entire earth gets a few degrees warmer the effects of global warming can be seen if you look for them and accept what you see. There will be wilder swings in the weather over the coming years as more heat is added to the earth over time.

Now the grass is gone as it's covered up by another extra 5 ft. of stained water which smothers the grass due to the lack of sunlight penetrating down into the deeper water. Grass will die off fast when it's covered by another 5 ft. of water. And more runoff into the water from excessive rainfalls will drag more sediment into the lake. The suspended particles settle down and fill up the lake over time. Ditches that were there in the early 1970's are now filled in with sediment. The grass will come back when the lake stabilized if that ever happens again. It seems like this spring it rains every other day. The last couple of days before this Past Saturday were filled with rain all day long for several days in a row due to Storm Cindi.

Expect more hurricane's and more rain in some areas with excessive drought in other places. Like down in the South Eat there are huge fires consuming the landscape.

The small Islands are covered by more water and are not visible now. When the lake drops back down to winter poll 532 ft. AMSL next winter they will be visible again if we don't get more rain this year. When the rains stop and the amount of water draining down into the lakes and rivers decreases then the Island will be seen again.

The waters I use to fish have been higher this spring. I took pictures on my smart phone this year of all the flooding in my area. It was like this back in 1997 too. I have pictures on my Canon DSLR camera that I stored on my computer. I backed my computer up onto a external hard drive and the pictures are still on the external Hard Drive. But I lost my hard drive on my computer several times over the past 5 years and had to restore the hard drive with my DVD back up disks. I'm not good at bring the back ups back onto my computer. So I have multiple directors and users now on my main computer. Luckily I have two other more portable computers. An Asus ROG Notebook with a i7 Intel CUP and a fast GPU and big cooling fans to control the heat when I ramp up the CPU and GPU voltages. And then I got a new Microsoft Surface Pro 4 for my travels It's super lightweight unlike the 10 lb Asus ROG Notebook. This little table/laptop Microsoft Computer is light as a feather. I had to buy a keyboard for it and a docking unit so that I could run it like a desktop computer with my USB Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard and my Asus 27" Monitor. The Microsoft Docking Device will allow me to keep the surface Pro 4 charged up and also it will allow me to use the Router's hard wires to connect to the internet. I can use Wifi but it's slower and less dependable than using a network cable direct connecting the Surface Pro to the Router.

When I get back home I have to figure out why the new Microsoft Windows 10 updates screwed up my Microsoft Office 2013 software. I keep getting an error message on my Outlook Email Program. It was working fine until the last MS Windows 10's updates. I think that MS screws up the software so that they can sell us the new Microsoft Office 2016 or rent it to us and make more money. They sure will have to answer to me when I call them on Monday. I've got better things to do with my time that spend hours on the phone with some MS Tech Support person from some foreign county that doesn't even speak English as their first language. I get tried of trying to hear and understand their thick foreign accents when I'm trying to talk technical stuff with people. Microsoft wants $99/year for each computer just to use their Office 2016 suit of programs. I would much rather pay just $200 for the program and be able to use it on all three of my computer than to rent it from them for a month at a time for each separate computer. That's highway robbery IMHO. I think it may cost about $#300 plus for me to get the Outlook 2016 email software for all three of my computer these days.





Quote Originally Posted by najerry View Post
Another thing that seems to be missing from the earlier years that I fished Patoka is the grass. I haven't found near the grass that used to be in the lake. Another thing that seems to be missing, what happened to the small island that use to be in the main lake between Painters creek and the dam? May have been 2 small islands, but I know there was at least 1. One of them always had a eagles nest on it.